 Jaugey's filmmaking has focused on the poverty-stricken people of Nicaragua, such as her short film "Cinema Alcázar", winner of the Silver Bear at Berlinale (1998) the first one for Nicaragua.This documentary is about the people that live in the ruins of an earthquake destroyed movie house from the 1950s located in the center of Managua.The documentary "The Island of the Lost Children" (2001), original title in Spanish "La Isla de los Niños Perdidos", filmed in jail and winner of the "Society of Authors Award" at the International Documentary Festival "Cinéma du Réel" in Paris in 2002.