Wild Inside

Monday, Aug 17
7:15

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Opens August 21—Q&A with filmmaker Penny Lane on August 17

2026. 95 m. Penny Lane. mTuckman Media. US. English. Rated NR.

The newest documentary from filmmaker Penny Lane (Hail Satan?) follows a Eurasian Eagle-Owl named Flaco as he escapes from the Central Park Zoo and sets off on a magical odyssey through the island of Manhattan. Flaco overcomes his years of captivity and lack of survival skills to answer the call of the wild—and discovers he was wild inside all along.

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"An invigorating philosophical exploration of animal life, a vision of the modern media spotlight, and a symphonic outpouring of the energy, passion, and knowledge that make the city run."
Richard Brody, The New Yorker

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Q&A with filmmaker Penny Lane

Monday, Aug. 17 2026, 7:15

Penny Lane has been making award-winning, innovative documentaries for over a decade. This includes eight feature films, most recently Confessions of a Good Samaritan (Netflix, 2023), Listening to Kenny G (HBO, 2021) and Hail Satan? (Magnolia Pictures, 2019). A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, Lane has received grants and awards from the Sundance Film Festival, Cinereach, Creative Capital, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Tribeca Film Institute, Wexner Center for the Arts, and many others. She has been honored with mid-career retrospectives at the Museum of the Moving Image, San Francisco DocFest, Open City Documentary Festival, and Cinema Moderne. She co-owns the Brooklyn-based production company Spinning Nancy, and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And yes, Penny Lane is her real name.

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