With their debut feature, Wildcat, directors Trevor Frost and Melissa Lesh have burst onto the documentary scene with an extraordinary tale of a young, PTSD-suffering British soldier and an American scientist raising an orphaned baby ocelot in the Amazon.

In the midst of awards season, Frost sat down with Asheville Movies to talk all things Wildcat, including what it was like living in the Peruvian rainforest for months at a time, shooting a documentary in an authentic way, and the perils of winning prizes.

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