Netflix Announces Documentary Film 'You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolf Pack'

On March 1st, Netflix premieres the documentary film You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolf Pack, a sweeping deconstruction of the case that led to Spain’s first #MeToo reckoning and resonated across Latin America. Produced in secret, the film departs from a sexual assault at Spain’s iconic “running of the bulls” (Sanfermines), when a woman is assaulted by five men who call themselves “The Wolf Pack”. Directed by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar, filmmakers of The Silence of Others - winner of Spain’s Goya, two Emmys, a Peabody and preselected on the Oscar shortlist in 2019 -, the film is based on the survivors’ own words - with actresses Natalia de Molina and Carolina Yuste as narrators - and never-before-heard key testimonies of people who were close to the events.

Three and a half years in the making, the documentary film interweaves the story of what happened in Sanfermines in 2016 with two other cases - an assault that occurred in Pozoblanco, committed by four of the same men, and the 2008 murder of Nagore Laffage - to shed light on the sexual violence that women experience every day, building to Spain’s first #MeToo turning point in 2018, where a million women and girls take to the streets chanting 'I do believe you' and break their silence on social media with #Cuéntalo ('Tell Your Story'). Through revisiting these events, 'You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolf Pack' gradually exposes the faultlines of sexism in the judiciary, the media and the society itself. It shows how a movement changed the way a country deals with sexual violence, highlights the individual and collective responsibility we share towards this universal problem, and reminds us of the power of sisterhood.

'We wanted to make a film that could tell this story from a perspective that had not been heard before, even though it’s actually the official version that has been ratified by the courts: the perspective of the victims/survivors. Through their words - extracted from judicial testimony, interviews and letters -, and thanks to unprecedented access to people close to the events, we have been able to tell this story with rigor, sensitivity and respect', explains Almudena Carracedo, co-director.

Robert Bahar, co-director, adds that 'This documentary film is built from more than sixty hours of carefully filmed interviews, fifty hours of original visuals, and more than a thousand hours of archival footage, incorporated with a filmic sensibility. In addition, the guidance provided by experts in gender violence, as well as the documentary participants’ expertise regarding legal processes and the media,  have been fundamental”.

The documentary film is the result of an extensive investigation, combined with a thoughtful artistic approach. The music composed for 'You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolf Pack', is also an important creative element. It’s the second time Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar collaborate with Leo Heiblum and Jacobo Lieberman, composers of the soundtrack of 'The Silence of Others' and winners of four Ariel Awards in Mexico. 

About the filmmakers

'You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolf Pack' is written, produced and directed by filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar, producers of Lucernam Films. Their previous feature documentary, 'The Silence of Others', won over 40 awards internationally, including a Goya, two Emmys (including Best Documentary), a Peabody Award, Platino Award, Forqué Award, and the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlinale. It was also nominated for Best Documentary at the European Film Awards and made the shortlist for the Oscars. Previously, Almudena and Robert made the feature documentary Made in L.A., about the struggles of three undocumented women in Los Angeles garment factories, which won an Emmy and was praised by The New York Times as 'an excellent documentary… about basic human dignity'. For both films, they developed multi-year impact campaigns to raise awareness around the issues the films addressed, including a screening of Made in L.A. at the US Congress, and a screening of 'The Silence of Others' at the UN headquarters in New York. They are members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Spain’s Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences, and the European Film Academy.