Directors Mark Linfield and Vanessa Berlowitz They can't hide their excitement. It has been a total of five years in which her team closely followed a tigress named Ámbar to tell not only her story of survival, but also that of her cubs who become adults before our eyes and undertake own direction. This is the premise of Tigres, a documentary that will premiere on Disney Plus this April 22 and that brings more than one surprise. For starters, it is narrated by none other than Priyanka Chopra Jonas.
Filmed in India, where some 3,600 tigers live in 54 nature reservesit is estimated that a third of the population of these felids lives outside the reserves and has relative contact with humans. Linfield and Berlowitz's work (along with a third director, Bob Sullivan) takes advantage of the latest technology, including high-definition night cameras, GPS tracking, drones, and even hidden cameras in the tigers' dens themselves. A second documentary, Tigers Rising, will be released as a counterpart to Tigers, detailing behind the scenes and the reality of tigers in India.
How do you feel to finally see Tigres ready after five years of work?
Nervous, yes, very nervous. We hope people enjoy watching it as much as we do making it. There is this moment of anxiety as if you were going to give birth and you ask yourself: “Will everyone like it?” You get so close to your film that you don't know if it's really good; You would have wanted to change this, you would have wanted to change the other.
After watching both documentaries, in the second (Rising Tigers) several questions from the first are answered, but I am surprised not to see you on screens, but rather a couple of documentary filmmakers from India.
We use a lot of Indian staff along with our western team; For the second documentary, it is very interesting to have the people from the country itself talking about the wildlife of their land and they can also speak in their own language. We wanted to show that connection and both films were made in parallel.
Was it always planned to make two documentaries or was it something that came up later?
They were always planned, they were filmed in parallel. Suddenly, you've seen these other complementary documentaries about the team behind it, but we felt like we had a much bigger story because the success story of tiger preservation (in India) is incredible. There haven't been many international documentaries that highlight this. And our Indian camera crew had a lot of connection to the story because they know the community leaders, they talk to them in their own language. They were the bridge to what we see in the show, instead of images of our team being silly around a campfire.
What did Priyanka respond to the proposal?
How did you manage to attract Priyanka Chopra Jonas to the project?
It's a great question. It started when we told our producer that we had yes and only Priyanka Chopra in mind, and he had to get her. So she approached her at a film festival and said, “We'd like you to tell this movie about tigers,” and she said, “Sure, I love tigers! Please, of course, please!”
-What effect do you expect the documentary to have after its premiere?
-I hope that Indians feel very proud of the film because it shows a brilliant story of success in conservation. There aren't many of those out there. And I think we also hope that people realize that tigers are not one-dimensional, skittish animals, but that they have a rich social life. They have intimate relationships with each other. Even the fearsome big male has a softer side.
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