Filmmaking brothers David and Nathan Zellner have been obsessed with Bigfoot since childhood, when the elusive woodland creature entered their imaginations. Their lifelong infatuation inspired them to create Sasquatch Sunset, a 90-minute, dialogue-free movie about a family of sasquatches living in a Pacific Northwest forest. The cast is played by Golden Globe-nominated Riley Keough, Oscar-nominated Jesse Eisenberg, Christophe Zajac-Denek, and Nathan (both brothers act, but David isn’t in this movie). The characters emote and grunt under heavy prosthetic makeup and fur-covered body suits in a mundane yet curious portrayal of everyday life.
The Zellners were born in Colorado but moved to Texas as kids. As adults, they joined forces in Austin, where they immersed themselves in movies. “The Austin Film Society screenings exposed, , and , about a Japanese woman who’s convinced is a documentary and sets out to find the treasure Steve Buscemi’s character buried in the snow.
