Directed by Elizabeth Unger
As China pours hundreds of billions of dollars into South American infrastructure, jaguars are disappearing from the continent’s most protected rainforests. Targeted as substitutes for tiger parts, which have historically been used in traditional Chinese medicines, jaguars are now being trafficked at dangerously high numbers to fill a new market demand.
Spanning over mist-covered jungles in the Amazon to bustling wildlife markets in China, TIGRE GENTE follows the storylines of two passionate people fighting to stop the jaguar trade before it’s too late.
CREW
Directed by - Elizabeth Unger
Produced by - Elizabeth Unger, Joanna Natasegara
Director of Photography - Edward Roqueta
Edited by - Jill Schweitzer, Alistair Shurman
Original Music by - Patrick Jonsson
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Tribeca Film Festival - 2021
BANFF Mountain Film and Book Festival - Best Documentary (Winner, 2021)
Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival - Best Documentary (Winner, 2022)
International Documentary Association - Pare Lorentz Award (Honorable Mention, 2022)
Mountainfilm Festival, Telluride - 2022
Santa Barbara International Film Festival - 2022
Sarasota Film Festival - 2022
New York Wild Film Festival - 2022
Wild & Scenic Film Festival - 2023
Imagine Science Film Festival - 2023