Tigre Gente

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 tigers, historically used in traditional Chinese medicines, jaguars are now being trafficked at dangerously high numbers to fill new market demands. We follow Marcos Uzquiano, the director of Bolivia’s Madidi National Park. As he and his rangers journey deep inside Madidi for answers, Marcos realises that the politically-economic forces between China and Bolivia may be fueling the very trade itself. On the other side of the world, Hong Kongese journalist Laurel Chor decides to investigate the quickly rising jaguar trade in China. Along the way, Laurel grapples between her duty as a conservationist and the desire to defend the culture of her own people.
Elizabeth Unger (United States)
Joanna Natasegara (United Kingdom)
Violet Du Feng (China / United States)
Wanderlust Productions, LLC
- Build an informed and clear picture of the jaguar trafficking landscape in Guangdong, China.
- Use an empathetic approach to change the hearts and minds of Chinese audiences in Guangdong, most likely to engage in this consumerism.
- Pursue an anti-racism agenda in Bolivia to bridge a cultural gap and re-frame the dialogue around jaguar conservation.
- Decrease the number of jaguars being killed for this black market trade.
- Develop a tailored impact methodology focusing primarily on individuals and small groups in hot-spot regions. If effective, we can replicate this methodology in other areas of China and Latin America, where jaguar trafficking is prominent.
- Work with Chinese grassroots partners to collect data and analyze the jaguar trade within Guangdong.
- Identify participants in Guangdong and Bolivia who are potentially involved with jaguar trafficking and find appropriate ways to share the film with them.
- Secure a strong impact producer in China who can design targeted community screenings and discussions on the film for schools, grassroots organizations, activists, and local press in Guangdong.
- Use the right partners to facilitate respectful dialogue after screenings between members of the Chinese community in Bolivia and the locals living there.
Violet Du Feng (China / United States)
Foundations
Rainforest Connection (RFCx)
National Geographic Society
Shared Earth Foundation, Dutch Lottery
Sundance Institute, Snider Foundation
NGOs
IUCN NL, Earth League International, IFAW
Panthera
Film Studio
XTR
Amsterdam Royal Zoo
ARTIS
Foundations
Rainforest Connection (RFCx)
National Geographic Society
Shared Earth Foundation, Dutch Lottery
Sundance Institute, Snider Foundation
NGOs
IUCN NL, Earth League International, IFAW
Panthera
Film Studio
XTR
Amsterdam Royal Zoo
ARTIS