Films

What would happen if a captive-born owl with no survival skills tried to make it on his own in New York City? In Wild Inside, we discover the answer is more incredible, and more consequential, than we could have ever imagined.

In 2023, a Eurasian Eagle-Owl named Flaco escaped from the Central Park Zoo and set off on a magical odyssey through the island of Manhattan. Flaco’s journey besotted a motley chorus New Yorkers–young and old, bird-nerds and civilians, many of them immigrants themselves–all reaching for a glimpse of the wild, a glimmer of magic, or even just someone to believe in.

Discussion with director Penny Lane (Chronicler Award).

“At once poetic and delusional and solipsistic and beautiful.”
-Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine