a wild love story
If World Champion taxidermist Ken Walker can’t find Bigfoot, he’ll make one.
A film with a poignant heart that connects the dots between “Psycho" and "Blue Velvet."
– Bay Area Reporter
Wild animals are not the only way that Ken can make a strikingly lifelike impression—he used to be a professional Roy Orbison impersonator. But these days, his “Pretty Woman” is seven feet tall and covered in coarse fur—his re-creation of 'Patty', the female Bigfoot seen in the shaky 1967 Patterson-Gimlin movie.
Big Fur documents Ken’s obsessive research and his meticulous Bigfoot re-creation from start to the moment he unveils her at the World Taxidermy Championship. While Ken would love to win ‘Best in Show’, his real hope is that putting ‘Patty’ on display will prompt some hunter to open his freezer and pull out the proof that Bigfoot is real. Instead, it’s Ken’s love life that gets thawed out.
Ken lives on the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies where folks still hunt and trap as a way of life. Is it possible that Bigfoot exists in this remote and vast landscape? According to the people we meet in this film, encounters are more common than you might think. But wilderness areas everywhere are shrinking and all wildlife populations – including Bigfoot, if they exist – are in danger.