COEUR d’ALENE – Niwa, a 5-year-old timber wolf under the care of the Wolf People education program, played the role of a famous wolf known as OR7 in a new documentary film.
The film, “OR7 – The Journey,” is currently making the rounds at film festivals, said Nancy J. Taylor, owner of the wolf education facility and gift shop known as Wolf People of Cocolalla.
Taylor said filmmaker Clemens Schenk visited Wolf People – which offers public tours and has 25 wolves on its property 12 miles south of Sandpoint – to take some photographs in preparation for the movie production.
“He took one look at Niwa and he said, ‘That’s my OR7,'” Taylor recalled Tuesday.
Niwa’s parts in the documentary were filmed on multiple occasions in the course of six months within the Wolf People’s 5-acre enclosure that is home to the animals.
Taylor has already seen the documentary three times, including once at the Panida Theater in Sandpoint this fall.
“It was sold out,” Taylor said. She said it is scheduled to be shown in Spokane in April, and will be available on DVD late in 2015.
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