Promise of The Wolves

After 40 years of protection, Grey wolves were recently de-listed federally from endangered species act and their fate was handed over to state legislatures. What ensued was a 'push to hunt' in wolf country across the United States. Filmmaker Julia Huffman travels to Minnesota and into wolf country to pursue the deep and intrinsic value of brother wolf and our forgotten promise to him. The film stars Minnesota Native Jim Brandenburg and his film, White Wolf, that premiered at Sundance almost 30 years ago-in 1986.

“The world suffers violence, and the violent shall take it by force.” Broken and distorted soundbites of cult leader Jim Jones giving his final, suicide-enticing sermon mesh with growls and brazen, angry guitars to open Wolves Among the Ashes. But Jones’s horrid words lose their original lunatic ardor here. Instead, they become vessels of poisonous derision for the French blackened death metal outfit Svart Crown on their fifth full-length, while the music wraps around this and similar ideas of subservience, foolishness, and madness. A caricature of and opposition to the tyranny of cult leaders born of the same cloth but with much larger flocks than the Peoples Temple.