DIRECTOR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Crystal Moselle
PRODUCERS: Crystal Moselle, Izabella Tzenkova, Hunter Gray, Alex Orlovsky
PRODUCTION CO: Kotva Films, Verisimilitude
EDITOR: Enat Sidi
MUSIC: Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans, Aska Matsumiya
WITH: Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Narayana Angulo, Mukunda Angulo, Krisna Angulo, Jagadesh Angulo, Visnu Angulo, Susanne Angulo, Oscar Angulo

AWARDS: Grand Jury Prize, Sundance 2015
Best Documentary, Edinburgh 2015

REVIEW

“The winner of the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance [in 2015], Crystal Moselle’s film delves into the bizarrely sheltered lives of six brothers whose father has confined them (and their sister) since birth to the tiny rooms of their Lower East Side apartment. What these boys know about social interaction they’ve learned from watching movies – thousands of them – and filming ingenious, homemade re-creations of their favourites. (Reservoir Dogs looms large: it offers each of them a major role.) Moselle draws on a vast video archive of their housebound lives to delight and disturb us in equal measure, but her portrait is a gently hopeful one, capturing them at a moment when the tyrannical grip of their father is faltering and they are making tentative forays into the world outside.”

– Bill Gosden, NZIFF 2015

“The Wolfpack indeed has much to say about fandom, the reciprocal bonds between consumption and production, the nightmarish consequences of unchecked patriarchy, and, especially, the pathological evils of insularity (it may be one of the greatest films ever made on this theme).”

– Blake Williams, Cinema Scope

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Palmerston North   
Wednesday, 1 September, 6:00pm

​​​Whanganui    
Monday, 13 September, 7.00pm

​New Plymouth   
Wednesday, 29 September, 6:00pm

Carterton  
Friday, 5 November, 7.00pm
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