TESOCO NUEVO: LAND OF JAGUARS, 37min., Mexico
Directed by Camilla Daldoss, Fernando Costantino Martinez Belmar
In a remote mayan community called Tesoco Nuevo located in the selva of Yucatan - Mexico, people have a special relationship with nature. The forest that this village protect is home of the largest wild cat in America and one of the most endangered: the jaguar. The documentary shows how they all have the important role to preserve it.

https://tesoconuevo.wixsite.com/documentary
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Get to know filmmaker Camilla Daldoss:

1. What motivated you to make this film?
I was filming my first short documentary about Sea Turtle Conservation in Puerto Escondido, when the biologist Fernando Martinez Belmar contacted me to see if I was able to film something in Yucatan about his conservation project with jaguars. I moved to Yucatan pretty excited and ended filming and editing for months and years

2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this film?
At list 3 and a half years considering we have been working on it on our free time any occasion we had money and without rush

3. How would you describe your film in two words!?
LAND MATTERS

4. What was the biggest obstacle you faced in completing this film?
having my sound designer in Italy with me living in Mexico!

5. What were your initial reactions when watching the audience talking about your film in the feedback video?
Very young people getting to know a real story, to me is important that any of them think that the same issue happens in their hometown, with cattles and wildcats or wolves, it can happen anywhere where humans deforest

6. When did you realize that you wanted to make films?
I was a teen when I decided I wanted to be a camera operator

7. What film have you seen the most in your life?
Actually all western movies from Sergio Leone, Gladiator from Ridley Scott

8. What other elements of the festival experience can we and other festivals implement to satisfy you and help you further your filmmaking career?
I mean this was already very well done, maybe a photo of the screening room with people watching will be awesome! and remind me with advice so I can come from Mexico or Italy

9. You submitted to the festival via FilmFreeway. How has your experiences been working on the festival platform site?
I always use FilmFreeway is very easy to use

10. What is your favorite meal?
Of course is Pizza!

11. What is next for you? A new film?
I am making the moodboard for something BIG about the ocean!