Check out the trailer for ‘Autumn and the Black Jaguar’ starring Lumi Pollack and Emily Bett Rickards, in theaters Jan. 17, 2025.
Read More Check out the trailer for ‘Autumn and the Black Jaguar’ starring Lumi Pollack and Emily Bett Rickards, in theaters Jan. 17, 2025.’Autumn and the Black Jaguar’ follows Autumn (Pollak) who, having spent her early childhood in the Amazon rainforest, formed a friendship with a jaguar cub she named Hope. Now a teenager in New York City, she learns her childhood village in the Amazon is under threat from animal traffickers, so she decides she must return to the Amazon to save her beloved jaguar. Anja (Bett Rickards), her endearingly clumsy biology teacher, learns of her plan and attempts to dissuade her, but ends up joining her on her journey to reunite with Hope and save her from those who seek to destroy the rainforest and its wildlife.In making the film, the filmmakers used real jaguars to play Hope. The jaguars were rescued from wild animal breeders, taken care of by on-set animal coordinators, and now live in an animal sanctuary. Before filming began, both Lumi Pollak and Airam Cama