Jaguar People (Tigre Gente)

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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 mist-covered jungles in the Amazon to bustling wildlife markets in China,  Jaguar People (Tigre Gente) follows the storylines of two passionate people fighting to stop the jaguar trade before it’s too late.

Credits

Director/Producer:  Elizabeth Unger
Producer: Joanna Natasegara
Editor: Alistair Shurman
Composer: Patrick Jonsson

94  minutes  | DVD release 2024
English, Spanish & Mandarin language with English subtitles.

Jaguar People was an official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2021.

Director Biography

ELIZABETH UNGER — Director & Producer

Elizabeth Unger is a National Geographic Explorer and filmmaker whose work has been featured in National Geographic Magazine. A passion for wildlife and cuisine has led Elizabeth across seven continents, steeping her in rich anthropological experiences that have shaped her into the storyteller she is today. After acquiring a B.S. in Biology from the University of North Carolina Wilmington,

Elizabeth worked as a PhD research assistant for big cat and primate projects in Latin America. Her photojournalism and videography work has been showcased on National Geographic Magazine digital and NG Travel. Elizabeth was selected as one of five North American Regional Finalists for the prestigious UN Young Champion of the Earth Prize and is a two-time Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee for her feature debut, Tigre Gente.

Producer Biography

JOANNA NATASEGARA — Producer

Joanna Natasegara is a celebrated Academy Award-winning film producer and founder of Violet Films. Known for their hard hitting, popular documentaries, Violet continues to be a driving force behind films that cover some of the most pressing socio-political issues of our times, including Netflix Originals Virunga (2014), The White Helmets (2016) and The Edge of Democracy (2019) as well as recent projects, the BIFA winning feature doc, Evelyn (2018) for BBC Films and BFI, and The Night-crawlers for National Geographic.

A small, nimble and highly dynamic team, Violet has a track record of capturing powerful and personal human stories, whilst creating authentic, cinematic and highly watchable films. Working with major distributors and globally recognized talent, Violet is developing scripted projects alongside its documentary slate, with an ongoing focus on social justice issues and impact.