ABOUT THE FILM

LOGLINE

A Bolivian park ranger and a young Hong Kongese journalist risk their lives to go undercover and investigate a new, deadly jaguar trade that’s sweeping South America. Along the way, they grapple with questions of empathy, responsibility, and bridging a cultural gap to prevent the jaguar trade from spiraling out of control.

LONG SYNOPSIS

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.

Director Elizabeth Unger

Producers Elizabeth Unger, Joanna Natasegara

Executive Producers Kate Brooks, Laurel Chor, Kathryn Everett, Violet Du Feng, Marjon Javadi, Bryn Mooser, Greg Worley, Minah Worley

Co-Producers John Trefry, Tiffany Schauer, Heather Smith

Associate Producers Abigail Anketell-Jones, Jac Avila, Magdalena Cabral

Editors Jill Schweitzer, Alistair Shurman

Director of Photography Edward Roqueta

Music Patrick Jonsson

Cast Marcos Uzquiano, Laurel Chor

FESTIVALS
2021: Tribeca (World Premiere)

AVAILABLE TERRITORIES
The World

EXHIBITION FORMATS
DCP, Digital Download