{"id":14008,"date":"2022-12-21T22:33:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T03:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14008"},"modified":"2022-12-24T13:30:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T18:30:36","slug":"wildcat-exclusive-interview-with-samantha-zwicker-a-tropical-biologist-and-wildlife-rehabilitation-specialist-and-the-founder-and-co-director-of-hoja-nueva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=14008","title":{"rendered":"Wildcat : Exclusive Interview with Samantha Zwicker,\u00a0a Tropical Biologist and Wildlife Rehabilitation Specialist and the Founder and Co-Director of Hoja Nueva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Synopsis :\u00a0<\/strong>Wildcat follows the emotional and inspiring story of a young veteran (Harry Turner) on his journey into the Amazon. Once there, he meets a young woman (Samantha Zwicker) running a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center, and his life finds new meaning as he is entrusted with the life of an orphaned baby ocelot. What was meant to be an attempt to escape from life turns out to be an unexpected journey of love, discovery, and healing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Rating<\/strong>:\u00a0R<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Genre<\/strong>:\u00a0Documentary<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Original Language<\/strong>:\u00a0English<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Director<\/strong>:Melissa Lesh, Trevor Beck, Trevor Frost<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Producer<\/strong>:Melissa Lesh, Trevor Beck, Joshua Altman, Alysa Nahmias, Trevor Frost<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Release Date (Theaters)<\/strong>:\u00a0<time datetime=\"Dec 21, 2022\">Dec 21, 2022<\/time> \u00a0Limited<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Release Date (Streaming)<\/strong>:<time datetime=\"\">Dec 30, 2022<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Runtime<\/strong>:<time datetime=\"P1h 46mM\">1h 46m<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"meta-label subtle\" data-qa=\"movie-info-item-label\"><strong>Distributor<\/strong>:\u00a0Amazon Studios<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14010\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Wildcat3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"884\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Wildcat3.jpg 884w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Wildcat3-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Wildcat3-768x655.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Wildcat3-696x594.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Wildcat3-492x420.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Exclusive Interview with Smantha Zwicker,\u00a0a tropical biologist and wildlife rehabilitation specialist and the founder and co-director of Hoja Nueva.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: \u201cHow did you get involved with working with wildlife in Peru?\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SZ: Growing up, I was always really interested in studying in one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. I grew up in nature. I grew up with wildlife, and I started rescuing animals from a pretty young age. I transferred into going into study wildcat populations in the lower Peruvian Amazon. I did it because it was this biodiverse place, also because not a lot had been done in terms of research and conservation. So it\u2019s always exciting to kindof pioneer something new.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You established the organization Hoja Nueva, which helps wounded animals get back into the wild. How did you establish this organization, and how do they function?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SZ: A lot of our rescue and rehabilitation work has happened post-\u201cWildcat\u201d \u2014 post this film. In 2020 my co-director Dylan Singer and I made it our main mission to create and build the first-ever carnivore specialized rehabilitation and re-wilding center, and we built it up to an extent where now we\u2019ve got about 67 animals in our care. We work really closely with local and federal governments to rescue animals from all types of situations: ones that are taken from the wild and put into zoos, or ones that are in the pet trade while they\u2019re being sold in markets. We et them from all different types of situations.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a very rewarding job, but it\u2019s very difficult. I think it\u2019s because there\u2019s not a lot of organizations or people that have specialized in re-wilding, specifically, in the neo-tropics, and specifically with carnivores. It\u2019s a little bit longer-term, more difficult. We\u2019ve got animals with us for sometimes three years before they\u2019re set free. So yeah, it\u2019s very rewarding, but it\u2019s a very hard process at times. It\u2019s definitely a learning experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It can\u2019t be easy learning about so many different aspects at the same time. Can you talk about the process of research in re-wilding?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SZ: Yeah. You see in this film the origin story of the first try, essentially, of what we built now. Back then it was just trial and error, and learning as we went, for the most part. For Keanu\u2019s rehabilitation there were many things that went right, but there were a lot of things that went wrong. Oftentimes, it\u2019s the mistakes in those types of situations and the trial and error that you learn from and can grow from and make changes. So we now do re-wilding in a completely different way with very minimal human contacts and very dependent on integrating these animals in their natural environment as much as possible and becoming independent at an earlier age.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Harry Turner fought in the war in Afghanistan and was medically discharged for his depression, and had some traumatic experience in the past.\u00a0Could you talk about when you first met him?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SZ: I had just started Hoja Nueva and was working a little bit in re-wilding, but mostly in community development efforts, and he was working for a different organization. We just joined efforts a little bit. He had mentioned that he had been in Afghanistan for a couple of months, and about some of his struggles. He was one of those individuals that showed everything at first, so I learned a lot about him even in the first 24 hours of knowing him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We both come from these backgrounds where there\u2019s trauma that we\u2019ve held on to and learned from. I think a lot of times, working in conservation in general, but working in the jungle in conservation, the majority of the people that I meet have had specific types of trauma in the past which led them to the rainforest and which led them to pursue work that is preserving something \u2014 preserving animals, preserving wild places. And we were both there for that purpose in different ways.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: There\u2019s so much danger in wildlife: hunters, mining, logging, and wildlife trafficking. What is your strategy to protect the animals and execute the re-wilding plan?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SZ: That\u2019s a great question. It\u2019s very multi-faceted, so it starts with applied conservation, it starts with preserving these landscapes. After Khan [the first ocelot], it was very important for me to pursue acquiring our own proprietary lands as part of a larger corridor. So we, in partnership with other organizations, protect around 30,000 hectares, and we own around three, so about 7,000 acres. We will re-wild our animals on our lands and there we can make sure that it\u2019s safe. We patrol our borders regularly so we know that the place we\u2019re re-inserting these animals is safe.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But it all comes together. It\u2019s all about protecting all of the landscape and addressing the root causes, which is often difficult. I love and I\u2019m very fulfilled by putting animals back into the wild, but a lot of times you really want to take a step back and focus on, why do we have these animals in the first place? Why is the trade increasing? Why are people wanting more wild animals as pets?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And start to really refocus our efforts on those root causes so we can create greater change.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: In the film, you say \u201cThe jungle here change people.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>How has your perspective of your life changed after living in the jungle?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SZ: I think it depends on the individual and what each person needs, and when they arrive and what they need to process or go through. The rainforest can be a very healing place. It has a lot to do with being in one of the few remaining intact habitats that\u2019s left in the world, and experience a life that\u2019s outside of society, outside of societal pressures and norms, and outside of self-service, and everything like that.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very empowering. You realize who you are, and for me it was realizing that this place was my home and that\u2019s why I\u2019ve been living there for over nine years now. I think it changes people on an inner level and oftentimes they stay. But sometimes it\u2019s just a stepping stone and it depends on the person<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Your team initially shot a lot of the footage by yourself before the filmmakers became involved. At what point did they get involved?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SZ: The filmmakers arrived after the whole process with Khan. I had made it my mission from the beginning because it was going to be the first-ever ocelot reintroduction that had been documented. I really wanted to focus on getting the Sony and shooting everything possible to share the information and share the process \u2014 like what we did wrong, what we did right. And then the ending to his life and his story wasn\u2019t the one we had hoped for, but [now] we had this archival footage.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When we met Trevor [Frost] and Melissa [Lesh] [the film\u2019s directors], they were extremely interested in the fact that we had this archive of Khan and how everything started, and became a big part of the film. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14088\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/wildcat4-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/wildcat4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/wildcat4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/wildcat4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/wildcat4-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/wildcat4-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/wildcat4-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/wildcat4.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: You said you can tell that some animals never had a \u201cmama\u201d. How can you tell that?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SZ: It comes from experience, and after working with over a hundred animals at this point, you can tell their traumas and what they\u2019ve been through before they got to you. Sometimes when they arrive and they\u2019re pretty young, maybe a few months old, you can tell with how they situate around a human. They want contact because they need that comfort \u2014 they need a reason to live. So too, if they\u2019ve gone through that type of trauma or if they\u2019ve been taken from their home and their mother. And you can always tell, because there\u2019s wildness in them but there\u2019s also this like, hope of connection, and wanting to connect with you. That\u2019s why we have a closer relationship with the baby animals until they\u2019re around three or four months old, because it\u2019s very necessary for their development. You can tell when they were taken really soon, and it\u2019s in the way they look at you.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: When you release an animal, sometimes it must be very sad. Can you talk about the emotional experience of that process?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SZ: Yeah, it\u2019s extremely difficult because it\u2019s very bittersweet. I think the main two things are to always be focused on the end goal, which is that these animals innately want to be wild and they deserve to be wild, and you have to hold on to that. Because even at times when these animals want to have a greater connection, but it\u2019s past the stage where they should and they should really start to be independent, you have to make the decision to start cutting them off. It\u2019s hurtful; as a compassionate person you feel that pain when you\u2019re walking away and they\u2019re crying for you. It\u2019s very emotional.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By the time that they\u2019re at a stage where they are going off, it\u2019s always more exciting than anything because at that point when we\u2019re releasing them it means that they don\u2019t want the connection with us. It means that they don\u2019t have that desire anymore, and the only desire that they have is to be independent. So by the time they\u2019ve reached that point, we\u2019ve established that they\u2019re ready. When you let them go, it\u2019s very fulfilling because they don\u2019t want to come back. They\u2019re happy to be out there.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We track some of our released animals, but a lot of times we can\u2019t track them completely with cameras or collars or whatever. So we hope for the absolute best and know that we did the best that we could. And we have to hold on to that, especially to help all the future cases that we get.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: How did Harry and you balance out raising an ocelot, Keanu? You needed to release him in the wild, but he got bitten by a Brazilian wandering spider.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SZ: There\u2019s a lot of risk involved in rehabilitating wild animals. We have risk even with the animals that grow and develop inside an enclosure. There\u2019s still a risk of different elements and different things that could enter their enclosure. There\u2019s always risk. But it is the most risky, challenging environment on the planet, and it\u2019s what they\u2019re going to face when they\u2019re wild. So it\u2019s really important to expose them to that from a younger age.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the case of the Brazilian wandering spider that you mentioned, that was the first case where I\u2019d ever seen an animal, including a human, react to a Brazilian spider bite in this part of the jungle. I\u2019ve heard about them from other places, mostly in Brazil. But every person that I had ever seen get bit never had a reaction, so it was really a good learning experience to know that those two bites really affected him and how he processed that venom. He was paralyzed for a bit but he overcame it quickly. It was a good learning experience \u2014 all of the challenges are.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: What other challenge did you face that you had the most difficulty with?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SZ: I mentioned some of the challenges in our work. For me, the biggest challenge is getting people to participate and care in these issues, and be responsible consumers and tourists \u2014 all things that affect wildlife trade and trafficking.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Q: What do you want the audience to take away from this film?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With this film, it\u2019s exciting to be able to have a little bit bigger platform to speak about those issues and to bring people in to how they can help on a daily basis. One of those things is supporting our organization. We now get calls about baby to adult wildcats almost every week. We have over 20 in our care currently, and it\u2019s a really long, arduous process and often an expensive process, so we always like to encourage people. If they care about Khan and Keanu, and all the future cats, to research them and to donate. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Thank you very much.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/nobuhosokigmail-com\/\">Check out more of Nobuhiro&#8217;s articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the trailer of the film<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"tm-dXwxPRMw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wildcat - Official Trailer | Prime Video\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tm-dXwxPRMw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis :\u00a0Wildcat follows the emotional and inspiring story of a young veteran (Harry Turner) on his journey into the Amazon. 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