The story of a family of young men who escape a cloistered existence in the middle of New York City is revealed in Director Crystal Moselle’s documentary The Wolfpack.

Moselle’s film gives the account of the six Angulo brothers, who spent the majority of their adolescence locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Nicknamed “The Wolfpack,” these homeschooled boys had no acquaintances outside their family and only experienced the world beyond their walls via the films they watched obsessively and recreated meticulously with homemade props and costumes. But after one of the brothers escapes the apartment, everything changes. The Wolfpack won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

Following the DGA Special Projects Committee’s Documentary Series screening in Los Angeles on October 8, Moselle discussed the making of the film in a conversation moderated by Director James Moll (Running the Sahara).

Moselle is a New York-based director, who has worked with short-form storytelling such as her film Separating Ourselves. The Wolfpack is her first feature-length documentary.