Carl Bessai
Nacimiento : , Edmonton, Canada
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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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Una versión moderna del Rey Lear de William Shakespeare.
Director
Una versión moderna del Rey Lear de William Shakespeare.
Producer
Faced with financial ruin, an aging theater director struggling to stay relevant must cast a young action movie star in his new play. When the director's theatrical nature clashes with the movie star's Hollywood attitude, they must figure out how to make this work because on way or another, the show must go on!
Writer
Faced with financial ruin, an aging theater director struggling to stay relevant must cast a young action movie star in his new play. When the director's theatrical nature clashes with the movie star's Hollywood attitude, they must figure out how to make this work because on way or another, the show must go on!
Director
Faced with financial ruin, an aging theater director struggling to stay relevant must cast a young action movie star in his new play. When the director's theatrical nature clashes with the movie star's Hollywood attitude, they must figure out how to make this work because on way or another, the show must go on!
Director
Inspirado en hechos reales, esta película trata del descubrimiento del cuerpo de Melissa Cooper colgando de un columpio. La muerte de la joven de 27 años es inicialmente un suicidio. Pero dos semanas más tarde, un joven, Adam, se presenta alegando que asesinó a Melissa por orden de su esposo, Daniel Cooper.
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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. With a deadline of Christmas day, he attempts to help her heal in order to embrace a new future, and an unexpected love, just in time to celebrate the miracle of the holiday season.
Director of Photography
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. After murdering the mayor, Kincaid has his sights set on taking over and running the city his way, the bad way. Thankfully, the one and only superfly Detective Franky New Guinea and his new partner, the truly unruly Detective Reverend Grizzly Night-Bear, are here to make sure that Bad City stays groovy and is run the good way: the Bad way (it's different from the first bad way, and better). So get ready to boogie, cats, 'cause these cops are outta sight like dy-no-mite and the only thing they love more than sex, drugs, and growing body hair is taking down turkeys like Kincaid who threaten their BAD CITY.
Director
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. After murdering the mayor, Kincaid has his sights set on taking over and running the city his way, the bad way. Thankfully, the one and only superfly Detective Franky New Guinea and his new partner, the truly unruly Detective Reverend Grizzly Night-Bear, are here to make sure that Bad City stays groovy and is run the good way: the Bad way (it's different from the first bad way, and better). So get ready to boogie, cats, 'cause these cops are outta sight like dy-no-mite and the only thing they love more than sex, drugs, and growing body hair is taking down turkeys like Kincaid who threaten their BAD CITY.
Co-Producer
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. The problem is, Leo's not a detective. He sells novelty advertising across the hall from the detective, but how hard can it be?
Director
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. The problem is, Leo's not a detective. He sells novelty advertising across the hall from the detective, but how hard can it be?
Director
Una tímida adolescente acaba de salir de una escuela católica de niñas para comenzar una nueva vida en la universidad. Pero un antiguo mal le ha seguido hasta allí, para atormentarla con pesadillas inquietantes y deseos prohibidos. Es un hambre que sólo puede ser saciado por los placeres sensuales de la carne… y la sed de sangre…
Director
Un miércoles cualquiera, a los residentes de un centro de rehabilitación juvenil se les concede un pase de un día para salir de nuevo al mundo y hacer las paces con aquellos a los que les han hecho mal. Tres de ellos se encontrarán en un laberinto temporal imposible, viviendo cada día los mismos acontecimientos una y otra vez, una situación a la que cada uno responde de manera radicalmente diferente.
Director
Comedia coral sobre el amor y la disfunción compartida entre cuatro grupos de hermanos.
Cinematography
Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for the first time at the funeral of his mother. A south-Asian accountant introduces his white fiance to his father - a gay, Bollywood choreographer. A recently bankrupted Wall-Street broker has come home to borrow money from his music teacher father, and four brothers gather at the paternal home to pay their last respects and to collect their inheritance.
Producer
Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for the first time at the funeral of his mother. A south-Asian accountant introduces his white fiance to his father - a gay, Bollywood choreographer. A recently bankrupted Wall-Street broker has come home to borrow money from his music teacher father, and four brothers gather at the paternal home to pay their last respects and to collect their inheritance.
Writer
Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for the first time at the funeral of his mother. A south-Asian accountant introduces his white fiance to his father - a gay, Bollywood choreographer. A recently bankrupted Wall-Street broker has come home to borrow money from his music teacher father, and four brothers gather at the paternal home to pay their last respects and to collect their inheritance.
Director
Fathers & Sons is a comedic exploration of a group of men and their relationships with their fathers. A middle-aged Jewish man meets his father for the first time at the funeral of his mother. A south-Asian accountant introduces his white fiance to his father - a gay, Bollywood choreographer. A recently bankrupted Wall-Street broker has come home to borrow money from his music teacher father, and four brothers gather at the paternal home to pay their last respects and to collect their inheritance.
Writer
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.
Director
Cole es un joven que vive en un pueblo de 350 habitantes. A sus 22 años debe proteger a su sobrino de su padrastro maltratador, a su madre de ella misma e intentar unir las piezas de su desestructurada familia. Cuando Cole se apunta a unas clases de escritura creativa descubre que tiene talento para ello, y empieza a darse a conocer al mundo al mismo tiempo que se enamora de una muchacha de su misma clase. Pero no todo dura para siempre, y debe volver al pueblo, donde, sin él, las cosas no se sostienen. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
Comedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers.
Director of Photography
A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.
Director
A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.
Director
Unnatural & Accidental is the feature length dramatic film adaptation of the stage play entitled, The Unnatural and Accidental Women by renowned Metis playwright Marie Clements and is based loosely around the "unnatural and accidental" downing deaths of native women living on skid row. Rebecca has returned home to be with her dying father. His last wish is that she track down her mother, an aborig
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Una empresa de ingeniería forestal encarga un experimento genético para aumentar el rendimiento de una remota sección de bosque. Cuando se pierde el contacto con el campamento central y creyendo que la culpa es de un grupo radical de ecologistas liderado por Rita Hoffman, el director envía a su hijo a investigar. Aunque ellos no lo saben, la investigación ha tenido unos resultados desastrosos, infectando a un grupo de leñadores y ecologistas y convirtiéndolos en unas criaturas que intentan cazar a los pocos y aterrorizados supervivientes..
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Una empresa de ingeniería forestal encarga un experimento genético para aumentar el rendimiento de una remota sección de bosque. Cuando se pierde el contacto con el campamento central y creyendo que la culpa es de un grupo radical de ecologistas liderado por Rita Hoffman, el director envía a su hijo a investigar. Aunque ellos no lo saben, la investigación ha tenido unos resultados desastrosos, infectando a un grupo de leñadores y ecologistas y convirtiéndolos en unas criaturas que intentan cazar a los pocos y aterrorizados supervivientes..
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Cuando se le presenta la oportunidad de viajar a Canadá para recibir un reconocimiento, Emile (McKellen) vuelve a verse con su familia, con la que había perdido el contacto. Un trágico pasado y secretos de culpabilidad volverán a aflorar mientras intenta construir una futuro junto a su familia.
Director
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.
Director
"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media with which people communicate than by the content of the communication." - Marshall McLuhan Marshall McLuhan, one of Canada's most influential and controversial figures, burst into the center of media circles in North America with his strange and prophetic pronouncements - "electric light is pure information" - on advertising, television, and the emerging computer age. "Out Of Orbit" also pays tribute to McLuhan, his message, and the way in which his theories and words have penetrated and influenced the consciousness of today's media-literate society.
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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".
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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".
