The Wolfpack

Invited

The six Angulo brothers and their disabled older sister have spent their whole lives in a cramped housing project on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, locked away from the outside world. Homeschooled by their hippie American mother and forbidden from leaving their apartment on all but the rarest of occasions by their Peruvian-born Hare Krishna father, the brothers—nicknamed the Wolfpack—rely on a collection of thousands of movies as an outlet to the outside world. They watch films obsessively and repeatedly, transcribing scripts and creating homemade props and costumes in order to stage elaborate movie reenactments that they then film themselves. Director Crystal Moselle meets the brothers just as they are at a crossroads: one of them, Mukunda, has snuck out of the house in a Michael Myers Halloween mask, paving the way for the other brothers to begin venturing out too. The Wolfpack is a complex, stranger-than-fiction tale of an unusual family, as well as a story of isolation, discovery, and the power of film.  EM

Director

Crystal Moselle

Producers

Izabella Tzenkova, Crystal Moselle, Hunter Gray, Alex Orlovsky

Editor

Enat Sidi

Cinematographer

Crystal Moselle

Release Year

2014

Festival Year

2015

Country

United States

Run Time

84 minutes