The Wolfpack

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Meet The Wolfpack: six brothers who spent their entire childhood inside. Their way of escape: movies.

The six Angulo brothers and their sister grew up in an apartment in a Lower East Side housing project, rarely being permitted to go outside. They were homeschooled by their mother, a Midwesterner who had met her husband while backpacking in his native Peru. Their father, a Hare Krishna follower, had a vision: He planned on having ten children who would grow their hair long and live, in the words of one son, ‘like a tribe.’”

Filmmaker Crystal Moselle made a documentary (“The Wolfpack”) about the six brothers, and it won the Grand Jury Prize for a documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Here’s the trailer for the movie.

“In 2010, Moselle was walking down First Avenue in the East Village when six boys in sunglasses raced by, dressed like extras from a Tarantino film. An aspiring filmmaker, she caught up to them and began a conversation, the very first person to be let into their insular world. She knew she had stumbled on something rare. ‘I couldn’t stop thinking about them,’ she says.”

The film explores how the brothers discovered the outside world through the films they watched, and how they lived in those worlds when the TV wasn’t on to escape from the isolation and loneliness their parents forced upon them. Then the brothers escape, discover the real world and the whole household power dynamic is transformed. “The Wolfpack must learn how to integrate into society without disbanding the brotherhood.”

“I think of this as their first step,” Moselle says. “I think this is just the beginning of all the things that we are going to see them doing for years.”

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