Smallfoot turns a myth upside down when a bright young yeti finds something he thought didn’t exist: a human. News of this "smallfoot" throws the simple yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village.
Karey Kirkpatrick debuted as a director with the animated film Over the Hedge (2006) after having put his name to the screenplays of titles including James and the Giant Peach (1996), Chicken Run (2000), The Little Vampire (2000) - all of which were screened at the Velodrome in San Sebastian - or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). In his second feature, Imagine That (2006), starring Eddie Murphy, he put animation to one side, although he returns to the genre in his latest work, Smallfoot.