The hunters, Olson says, are archetypes, but "definitely Humboldt people. The plot centers on a couple (Casey Gagliardi and Andrew Joseph Montgomery) who get lost in the woods before running into a group of sketchy local hunters. Finally, they settled on the Palmer Westbrook Ranch on the Smith River, which you can also see in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. While they considered shooting in state parks, it was too difficult to move around freely and it would have required the constant supervision of parks staff. The filmmakers wanted to shoot in the redwoods, so Olson pointed them to Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commissioner Cassandra Hesseltine to coordinate. "The Bigfoot movie wasn't my idea but I was basically hired because they needed someone who knew the (Northern California) area," he says. Olson returned to Humboldt to work on Primal Rage, which filmed in our county for three weeks in 2015 and another three weeks in 2016. Olson wound up taking on far more production responsibilities on site, "which is why, eventually, I was promoted up to co-producer," he says. Everything except sound, he says. "Actually," he adds with a laugh, "thats not true, I was a boom operator once!" It's a broad resume that came in handy on the Primal Rage shoot, with a crew of fewer than a dozen doubling and tripling up on duties. Olson, a theater kid back in his Logger days, has been making a living in and around seemingly every part of the film industry in Los Angeles: writing and producing his own short films, working as an assistant cameraman and an extra, and making featurettes for movies. No, not the shadowy figure from the Patterson-Gimlin film - Edward Olson, a Eureka High School alum and co-producer of the new Bigfoot feature, which is set for release nationwide on some 500 screens via Fathom Events, including the Minor Theater in Arcata. If you brave tomorrow night's North Coast premier of Primal Rage at the Eureka Theater, you might see a familiar face. Co-producer Edward Olson hanging out in the Humboldt woods with Bigfoot.
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