Sasquatch Sunset

Sasquatch Sunset

TIFF65: Greek Premiere
In Sasquatch Sunset by David and Nathan Zellner, two of the most idiosyncratic figures in contemporary American independent cinema, four sasquatch nomads wander the wilds of northern California for a year, hoping to meet other survivors of their kind, while struggling to make it in an ever-changing, filled with threats, environment. Based on the bigfoot myth, one of North America's most popular and timeless tales, the Zellner brothers map out an epic journey of survival and resilience, sometimes humorous and sometimes heartbreaking, in a film without dialogue, where the performances are based entirely on kinetic skills and non-verbal expressiveness. At the end of the journey, it becomes clear that the most threatening monsters are the ones our minds construct to cast away and ostracize anything they find incomprehensible and repulsive.
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Direction: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
Script: David Zellner
Cinematography: Michael Gioulakis
Editing: Nathan Zellner, David Zellner, Daniel Tarr
Sound: Jack Sobo
Music: The Octopus Project
Actors: Riley Keough, Jesse Eisenberg, Christophe Zajac-Denek, Nathan Zellner
Production: Square Peg, ZBI, The Space Program , Felix Culpa
Producers: Lars Knudsen, Tyler Campellone, George Rush, Jesse Eisenberg, David Harari
Co-producers: Chris Carroll
Production Design: Michael Powsner
Executive producer: Ari Aster, Gus Deardoff, Lizzie Shapiro, Andrew Karpen, Kent Sanderson, Riley Keough, Gina Gammell
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: USA
Production Year: 2024
Duration: 89'
Contact: Protagonist Pictures

David Zellner

David and Nathan Zellner are filmmakers based out of Austin, Texas. They were born in Greeley, Colorado. David and Nathan Zellner have been making films together since they were children, writing, producing, and directing numerous shorts, animations, and music videos that have screened and received awards at various festivals worldwide. In 2005, they made their Sundance FF debut with the short film Flotsam/Jetsam, followed by the shorts Redemptitude and Aftermath on Meadowlark Lane at the 2006 and 2007 Festivals. They won international acclaim with their 2014 feature Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter. Since then they have carved out a spot in the film world delivering unique projects with varying tones such as 2018’s Damsel staring Robert Pattinson.

Filmography

1997 Plastic Utopia
2004 The Virile Man (short)
2005 Flotsam/Jetsam (short, co-direction)
2008 Goliath
2014 Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter
2016 Black Something (short, co-direction)
2018 Damsel (co-direction)
2024 Sasquatch Sunset (co-direction)

Nathan Zellner

David and Nathan Zellner are filmmakers based out of Austin, Texas. They were born in Greeley, Colorado. David and Nathan Zellner have been making films together since they were children, writing, producing, and directing numerous shorts, animations, and music videos that have screened and received awards at various festivals worldwide. In 2005, they made their Sundance FF debut with the short film Flotsam/Jetsam, followed by the shorts Redemptitude and Aftermath on Meadowlark Lane at the 2006 and 2007 Festivals. They won international acclaim with their 2014 feature Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter. Since then they have carved out a spot in the film world delivering unique projects with varying tones such as 2018’s Damsel staring Robert Pattinson.

Filmography

2005 Flotsam/Jetsam (short, co-direction)
2016 Black Something (short, co-direction)
2018 Damsel (co-direction)
2024 Sasquatch Sunset (co-direction)