Luiza Calagian is a Brazilian director and cinematographer. She graduated in Cinematography from EICTV, Cuba, where she also took the Master's in Creative Documentary. Her work as a director and DOP has been awarded at Oberhausen, Ann Arbor, Kinoforum and Concordia, and screened at Berlin, Rotterdam, Visions du Réel, Biarritz, Hong Kong, among many others. Her first feature film as director and cinematographer, “Arrow for a Stone Heart”, is currently in post-production. Is the founder of the independent São Paulo-based production company Mata Fechada Films. Believes in the craft of cinema as a spell, capable of transforming reality and building bridges between humans, nature, and spirituality, enchanting the world.