A couple of weeks ago, the UN’s refugee agency announced that 4 million Venezuelans have fled their country in the last couple of years in a modern-day exodus of “staggering” proportions. Things in Venezuela have gotten so bad, that people are doing everything in their power to leave the country and start over abroad, not because they want to leave, but simply, because they can’t stay. As a result, the millions of people who have fled have become a true diaspora, always missing home, but having no choice but to rebuild their lives as immigrants.
Killing Tigers is a new web series that premieres on July 5th and follows the lives of young Venezuelan immigrants in New York City. The series, created by Stefano Fossa, a Venezuelan actor and director, is the first Venezuelan project made in the United States and promises to tell the stories of young people in this situation from their perspective.
TremamunnoHere’s the series’ synopsis as it appears on its website:
“’Killing Tigers’ is a latino comedy-drama web series about a group of Venezuelans living in NYC. We are brought into their world episode by episode through the eyes of Stefano, who has just landed in NYC from Caracas to pursue his dreams as an artist. As he couch surfs and navigates starting his new life, we meet his friend Gaby, an actress working for her big break. She struggles to make ends meet, and is pushed to her own limits with the kinds of tigers she feels she has to kill. Rafa, Gaby’s boyfriend, is a doctor from a traditional Venezuelan family, who feels threatened by Gaby’s independence and career ambitions.
Alberto has a high paying job in finance, and is hungry for the power and status he sees around him. He lives with his girlfriend, Colombian yoga teacher Federika, but they are unhappy; staying together out of convenience and to avoid being alone when they are both so far from home. ‘Killing Tigers’ follows them all on their journey to adapt to life in the big city. They all deal with the challenges they face in their own way, while trying to help one another the best they can. Life in NYC will change and even end for some of them, but for Stefano it is just beginning.
The name of the series is a translation of the Venezuelan expression “matar tigres,” which means doing whatever it takes to make ends meet. This should give you a pretty good idea of what the show will be about and the sort of situations the characters will find themselves in. Hopefully, Killing Tigers will mark the beginning of a new wave of Venezuelan projects being made by the people in the diaspora, telling their stories in their own terms.
To watch the series online, head on over to its website on July 5th, 2019.
Cover picture: Vice Versa Magazine
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