Carl Bessai

Directing

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Carl Bessai (born 1966 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. Bessai studied at OCAD University and at York University in Toronto graduating with a Master of Fine Arts Degree. He got his start directing documentary films before moving to Vancouver and directing his debut feature film Johnny in 1999. Bessai has made a career working on low-budget independent features but has worked with A-List actors Ian McKellen and Deborah Kara Unger on his film Emile and Carrie-Anne Moss on his film Normal. He was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction for the latter film. Bessai is a member of the Director’s Guild of Canada, the Writer’s Guild of Canada, and the Canadian Film and Television Producer's Association. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carl Bessai, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography Movies

Acting

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Evelyne

6.0(0.0K)

A Zimbabwean immigrant struggles to find a foothold until a gentle apartment caretaker named Gary reaches out to help her, in ways that exemplify the best of goodwill and empathy.

Mothers & Daughters

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Comedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers.

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Mothers & Daughters

Documentary Filmmaker

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T.U.R.D

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Greed threatens the livelihood of a gang of eccentric students and artists. Can they put aside their trivial issues and save their school?

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T.U.R.D

Quarrell McHumphrey

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Severed

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A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest...

Severed

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A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest...

Johnny

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Johnny, the megalomaniac leader of a group of squeegee kids, finds a video camera and pushes his followers into "acting" out increasingly dangerous "scenes".

Unnatural & Accidental

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Rebecca has returned home to be with her dying father. His last wish is that she track down her mother, an aboriginal woman who has long been missing. As she turns over the stones that hide the debris of the unwanted and forgotten, she is drawn into the mysteries of ten missing native women whose spirits lead Rebecca to the killer who still haunts the alleys, streets and hotels of this urban wasteland.

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Unnatural & Accidental

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Emile

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In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.

Normal

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A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.

Gloves of Stone

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Abner is trapped in the rough life of Mexico City. His escape? Boxing. Dr. Frank Irwin (Martin Sheen) and his son Jimmy, a pro boxer, come together to teach Abner that the heart fuels the punches we throw in life.

Repeaters

5.8(0.2K)

A gritty mind-bending thriller about three twenty-somethings who find themselves in an impossible time labyrinth, where each day they awaken to the same terrifying day as the preceding one.

Cole

6.5(0.0K)

A small town youth finds fulfillment and romance in a big city's creative writing course, but feels obliged to sacrifice them when his sister's home life deteriorates in his absence.

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Cole

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