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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.
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19 September 2015
Inspired by actual events. When Melissa Cooper's body is found hanging from a swing set, the 27-year-old's death is initially ruled a suicide.
22 April 2011
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.
06 December 2014
Heavenly angel Harry Mills is sent to Earth on a trial assignment to intervene in the life of a woman who needs help getting her life on track after the death of her father.
20 October 2005
A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest.
10 September 2007
A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.
03 June 2024
An exploration of two souls inhabiting bodies from 1940's Hungary, and the beginning of the digital age.
08 October 2009
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.
10 September 2014
Bad City is on the edge of falling into the hands of a madman, you dig? A strange and funky new party drug is killing kids left and right and that jive-ass, crooked city councilor Dominic Kincaid is behind it all.
15 September 2009
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.
08 September 2008
Comedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers.
22 April 2017
A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.
08 September 2011
An ensemble comedy about the love and dysfunction shared among four sets of siblings.
07 July 2006
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.
14 September 1999
Johnny, the megalomaniac leader of a group of squeegee kids, finds a video camera and pushes his followers into "acting" out increasingly dangerous "scenes".
04 December 2015
Faced with financial ruin, an aging theater director struggling to stay relevant must cast a young action movie star in his new play.
01 January 2003
In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.
01 January 2005
A lesbian couple contemplating marriage and a family with a gay teen son taking in an unexpected visitor from the past find their lives not so far apart.
07 March 2014
When a beautiful and mysterious woman bursts into the office of Leo Falloon, desperate to find her missing brother, it's just another day in the life of a hard-boiled detective.
01 October 2010
Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers.
26 April 2001
The story follows a troubled woman and her search for identity. She is given a choice between a return to the dysfunction of the past, or a new life in self assumed identity.
15 October 2013
Sharon Hinnendael stars as Charlotte, a timid and sheltered teen who has just left an all-girls Catholic school for a new life at a co-ed university.
30 November 1999
"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media with which people communicate than by the content of the communication.
