‘Macunaima,’ from ‘Alligator Girl!’ Director Felipe Braganca, Enrolls Zahy Guajajara, Denilson Baniwa (EXCLUSIVE)
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentBrazilian writer-director Felipe Bragança, whose “Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl!” played Sundance and Berlin in 2017, has enrolled a team of cutting edge Brazilian indigenous artists to realize movie “Macunaima,” his contemporary reimagining of one of the most important novels in Brazilian literature.Zahy Guajajara, a poet, actress (“The Brothers”), who formed part of the motorbike gang in “Alligator!,” and indigenous activist, has boarded “Macunaima” as a script collaborator, and the movie’s co-director.