LUIZA CALAGIAN is a director and Director of Photography from São Paulo, Brazil. Graduated from the Regular Course in Cinematography at the International School of Film and Television, EICTV - Cuba, where she also took the Masters in Creative Documentary. Studied Social Sciences at the University of São Paulo, focusing on the areas of visual anthropology and ethnology.

Her firts short film, Ava Mocoi, premiered and was awarded at Oberhausen, and her second short, Anba Dlo, will premiere at the 2025 Berlinale. Her work as a director and DOP has also been awarded at Ann Arbor, Kinoforum, and Concordia, and screened at festivals such as Rotterdam, Visions du Reel, Biarritz, Guadalajara and Hong Kong, among others. Her first feature film as a screenwriter, director and cinematographer, Arrow for a Stone Heart, is currently in post production stage, and was made in collaboration with a Guarani Mbya indigenous community from São Paulo, with whom she has worked for over ten years. The project was awarded three public funds from Brazil.

Luiza is the founder of the independent São Paulo-based production company Mata Fechada Films. Believes in the craft of cinema as spell, capable of transforming reality and building bridges between humans, nature and spirituality, enchanting the world.