PRESS RELEASE —Documentary film— Logline Pedra, peixe, rio explores the meaning of loss through the extraordinary story ofAriana, a young Brazilian girl. Synopsis Pedra, peixe, rio: Itamatatiua is a very personal film which explores loss through a variety of styles: part observational, part fictitious reconstruction, and part dreamlike fiction. Set in a small, slave-descendant Brazilian community called Itamatatiua, the film follows the life of Ariana, a foster child, her foster mother Eloisa, and the filmmaker Iban, over a three-year period. Director’s Note (Iban Ayesta) The filmPedra, peixe, rio: Itamatatiua stems from fieldwork I carried out in northern Brazil. During the time I spent in the state of Marañao between January 2004 and March 2006, I spent my time between the city of San Luis and Itamatatiua, a slave- descendant settlement of approximately five hundred inhabitants, located in the southern part of the municipality of Alcántara. On my arrival as a researcher I was welcomed warmly into the community lead by a circle of eight sturdy ceramicists and invited to stay in the house of the only ceramicist who had never had children, Eloisa De Jesús.
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