 Hi this is Matt McDonald with CalTV Entertainment News and I'm here at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival for the world premiere of Don't Swallow My Heart Alligator Girl. Your film is a love story but there's also the historical background of colonialism and indigenous justice so can you please explain a little bit about the historical context and the importance that it has in the film? Yeah the film is shot exactly in the border between Brazil and Paraguay and in a small city where like really violent battles happened in the past and so like a hundred years ago but since today people in this region has all these memories of these violence in the past so the relationship in the social relationship and even the more like personal relationship there is all a future by this memory so this film is this love story between a Brazilian teenager and Paraguayan teenager but they have to deal with all these past violence and how to try to transform it in something new or try to go through it and and leave what they they can maybe it's an impossible love but they are going to fight for this. I work with Glauco Fipu, he's a Brazilian DOP, it's my first time working with him. We had this idea to work with the natural light of the region but also creating some kind of mysterious atmosphere there because one of the references of the film is some like American film from the 80s like the warriors and so this kind of action film that has some it's not just action had a lot of ideas and concept behind some this mix of realism and some magical and gen-gen atmosphere so it was really fun to get all these old not old 80s gen-hub movies from the United States and bring into the South American reality and there's some elements of magical realism in the film. Can you talk about how that adds to the story? All the film is like narrated through the eyes and the imagination or the narration of this Joker the young boy so the idea was everything in the film has some some centimeters higher you know the four so this is the idea like it's not like fantasy but you're telling a story through the eyes of a 13 year old boy who has all this pop reference all this imaginary of adventure and pop reference and how some way he's bringing this story to us so when I was writing my own filming I was trying to always imagine the scenes through his eyes so I think the magic comes from him.