As far back as Melissa Lesh can remember, she was making art with her dad. There were always paintbrushes, colored pencils, clay and watercolors scattered around the house. They joked that she was “born with a paintbrush in her hand”. As a kid it was clear she enjoyed art as a visual medium to express and explore. Most of all she loved painting wildlife. Melissa had an obsession with the natural world and at the time art was her way of getting as close to it as she could. Fast forward 20 years later and she had started production on her very first feature-length film, Wildcat. This documentary brought her to the remote Peruvian Rainforest to follow the story of two young individuals working to reintroduce an orphaned baby ocelot back into the wild. This project would grow into a four-year long journey and become the most challenging and significant experience of her life.