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\n\tCalagian co-wrote the film with Jera Rete. Calagian also handled cinematography and shared the editing duties with Caio De. The producers are Vinicius Toro and Sabrina Zimmermann, with Bruno Cucio serving as executive producer. Utopia Docs is handling distribution and world sales. <\/p>\n
Ahead of the world premiere, Calagian told THR about how the idea for Arrow for a Stone Heart came about and its unique voice, look and feel.<\/p>\n
\u201cI kind of grew up with this film. It\u2019s been seven years now,\u201d the creative explains. \u201cThe film began to transform as well, and at a certain point, I understood that it wouldn\u2019t make sense for me to try to tell the story, which is the story of the Guaran\u00ed. It had to be told from their point of view and from their perspective rather than one that comes from the West.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tSo, how do you do that in a comprehensive way? \u201cThe mission became how do we bring the Guaran\u00ed cosmology, the Guaran\u00ed philosophy, the way that they see, organize, narrate and symbolize reality into the structure of a film, which is by its nature a Western thing,\u201d Calagian tells THR. \u201cBut this also opened up the possibilities of transformation that this art has.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe first thing she started looking at was dreams. \u201cThe Guaran\u00ed are very, very, very connected to their dreams,\u201d she explains. \u201cThey don\u2019t understand dreams just as something that your mind creates or something that your imagination creates, but the dream for them is a form of connecting to other dimensions, other beings, other spirits, to people who are not here anymore, and to gods.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\tIn the process, Jera became a close friend. \u201cShe embraced the project to the point that she became a co-writer,\u201d Calagian shares with THR. \u201cShe also started organizing who was going to be in the film. The main characters other than her are her two daughters. One of the girls, her youngest, plays the river, and the older daughter, who also appears briefly at the end of the film, voiced Rete, the peccary. So everything kind of revolves around Jera. She is the leader of this village, and she became not only the co-writer but also the whole heart of the film.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe filmmaker also fell in love with Rete, the peccary. And the peccary became the symbol of her production company, Mata Fechada Filmes. \u201cFor me, it is a symbol,\u201d Calagian says. \u201cIt has a lot to do with the magic of cinema. The Guaran\u00ed say it has the capacity of moving and traveling between worlds and entering different dimensions, different perspectives and visiting the gods.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHumans destroying the natural balance and colonization are recurring themes of Arrow for a Stone Heart. The river, for example, is considered one of the wisest and most powerful spirits for the Guaran\u00ed. \u201cEven before colonization, when everything was more in harmony, the Guaran\u00ed were very careful and very respectful of those river spirits because they can be dangerous \u2013 they are not to be messed with,\u201d the filmmaker highlights. \u201cThat\u2019s why I wanted to include this character, the river, to tell her side of the story. Despite all of this destruction, there is still life in the river, which is amazing. Somehow, nature finds a way to survive, even in such adverse conditions. She represents an anthropomorphic presence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tEven words and language were chosen with care to properly represent the indigenous people\u2019s view of the world. \u201cThose who are many\u201d is one of the recurring phrases, for example. \u201cThat is the common way they call the people who invaded,\u201d Calagian tells THR. <\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tLuiza Calagian<\/p>\n
\n\tShe has actually worked with the Guaran\u00ed for more than 10 years now, having in the past also focused on communications efforts to make their voice heard. \u201cWe were working on a campaign to make the government recognize the indigenous lands that they had inside the city, one of the biggest metropolises in the world,\u201d the filmmaker notes. \u201cThere is a big historical dispute around the history of colonization, especially in S\u00e3o Paulo. There is a regional culture that celebrates the colonizers who were responsible for invading this territory, which has always been Guaran\u00ed territory.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThat\u2019s also where the film title, Arrow for a Stone Heart, comes from. It is not only a play on the phrase \u201cheart of stone\u201d for cruel or cold-hearted people but also a reference to the statues and other reminders and colonialism. \u201cThere are still a lot of historical monuments, a lot of street names, a lot of public political symbols that celebrate the colonizers, the people who killed and enslaved the indigenous people,\u201d highlights Calagian. \u201cWe understood how important this dispute between narratives was, and that\u2019s how this project was born.\u201d<\/p>\n
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