The Wolfpack

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The documentary film The Wolfpack premièred at Sundance 2015 where it won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. First time feature film-maker Crystal Moselle stumbled on the interesting family in NYC and turned her lens on them to showcase their interesting world view.

It’s like a bizarre sociological experiment. The six Angulo brothers and their sister grew up in Lower Manhattan quarantined from the outside world – home-schooled by their new age parents, their worldview shaped mainly by movies watched on video… Though there is a dark undercurrent beneath their existence – embodied by Oscar Angulo, the family’s obsessive, angry Peruvian patriarch – the boys have created a happier cinematic world of their own. They memorize, re-script and re-enact movies like No Country For Old Men and Pulp Fiction. They fashion their own props from duct tape and cardboard and shoot their own “takes” with anachronistic video equipment.

The Wolfpack is rated 14A and will be playing at the Bloor Hot Docs theatre.