Inspired by his grandfather’s story about a local man who turned into a jaguar, Ariel Kuaray Ortega returned to his Mbyá-Guaraní community on the border of Brazil and Argentina to make a movie about the event. The resulting film within a film documents the casting and rehearsal process for a fictionalized version of the story featuring community members. Canuto’s Transformation was the winner of the 2023 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam award for Best Film and Outstanding Artistic Contribution, and the jury praised the “commitment to the filmmaking process within [the] community, a sense of humor, and a quest to move between worlds.”