Exclusive: SASQUATCH Director Joshua Rofé on Weed, Murder & Bigfoot
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Director Joshua Rofé has partnered with the Emmy-winning Duplass brothers to create an intoxicating 3-part bigfoot docu-series for Hulu. It’s called
Sasquatch and it will appeal to fans of both cryptids and true crime.
The first episode of
Sasquatch premiered at SXSW 2021. And that single episode had me hooked on this bizarre story about weed, murder, and Bigfoot.
Sasquatch follows investigative journalist David Holthouse. He was visiting a pot farm in Northern California in 1993 when he heard a chilling story. A vicious Bigfoot attack tore three men limb from limb. 25 years later, Holthouse returns to the Redwoods. Now he’s in search of evidence that could prove what happened that night. And
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Sasquatch follows journalist David Holthouse as he returns to the Redwoods 25 years after he heard a chilling story of three men who were torn to bits on a nearby dope farm. Was it Bigfoot? Or were there stranger forces at play? That’s what
Sasquatch, a new three-part documentary series coming to Hulu, seeks to find out, as Rofé and Holthouse weave a tale that involves murder, weed farms, and maybe the legendary Bigfoot.
The series just made its world premiere at SXSW before its April debut on Hulu. /Film’s Jacob Hall saw the first episode at the virtual festival and was greatly impressed by it, calling it “a bold new statement for the genre, an offbeat blend of investigative reporting and documentary filmmaking with a deep dive into the supernatural and the unexplainable” in his review.
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