Carl Bessai
출생 : , 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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A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.
Director
A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.
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!
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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
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. But two weeks later a young man, Adam, comes forward claiming he murdered Melissa on the orders of her husband, 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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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카톨릭 학교를 졸업하고 대학에 펜싱장학생으로 온 샬롯은 수줍음 많고 내성적인 성격의 평범한 학생인데 어느날 부터인가 자꾸만 이상한 환영과 에로틱한 꿈에 시달리게 된다. 그녀의 개방적인 룸메이트, 그녀가 아르바이트 하는 커피숍 사장의 대쉬, 펜싱과 영문학을 가르치는 그녀의 매력적인 교수등 그녀를 둘러싼 일상에 힘들어 하는 와중에 그런 그녀를 노리는 어두운 그림자가 있었으니.. 그것은 바로 순수한 처녀의 피를 취하려는 뱀파이어였다
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약물 중독 치료 센터에서 지내는 세 친구 카일, 소니아, 마이크는 치료에는 흥미가 없다. 그러던 어느 날 밤, 천둥번개가 치면서 세 친구는 동시에 감전을 당한다. 그리고 그때부터 세 친구에게만 같은 하루가 반복되는 놀라운 일이 벌어진다. 더 이상 잃을 것이 없는 인생에 똑같은 하루가 반복되자, 그들은 매일 매일을 후회 없이 자유롭게 만끽한다. 하지만 즐거움은 오래가지 못한다. 점점 더 자극적인 쾌락을 원하던 마이크는 결국 살인까지 저지르게 되고, 그를 회유하기 위해 노력하던 친구들 사이에는 균열이 가기 시작하는데…
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Deflated Dustin Milligan is fed up of living in the shadow of a movie star brother, but what can be done?
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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목수들이 트럭을 몰고 나무를 베러간다. 환경 보호단체는 그것을 막으려고 시위를 라고 결국 트럭은 시위대를 뚫고 숲속에 들어가고 나무를 베기 시작한다. 그러나 어떤 일꾼이 나무를 베는 순간 실수로 자기 팔 옆 부분을 베어 나무의 수액이 몸에 들어간다. 그러자 갑자기 그는 좀비로 변해버리고 숲은 완전히 좀비의 숲으로 되어 버린다. 그 사실을 아직 사업장 고용주들은 모르고 사업가는 환경단체와 협의하기 위하여 거부하는 자신의 아들(타일러)를 그 숲에 보낸다. 그러나 이미 숲은 좀비의 천지로 유혈이 낭자함에 공포감으로 물들게 된다. 이미 숲은 살육과 잔인함이 가득한 죽음의 숲으로 변해 버렸고,뒤늦게 새로운 나무 수액을 발견하여 실험을 하던 과학자들이 좀비로 변해 버리게 되고...
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목수들이 트럭을 몰고 나무를 베러간다. 환경 보호단체는 그것을 막으려고 시위를 라고 결국 트럭은 시위대를 뚫고 숲속에 들어가고 나무를 베기 시작한다. 그러나 어떤 일꾼이 나무를 베는 순간 실수로 자기 팔 옆 부분을 베어 나무의 수액이 몸에 들어간다. 그러자 갑자기 그는 좀비로 변해버리고 숲은 완전히 좀비의 숲으로 되어 버린다. 그 사실을 아직 사업장 고용주들은 모르고 사업가는 환경단체와 협의하기 위하여 거부하는 자신의 아들(타일러)를 그 숲에 보낸다. 그러나 이미 숲은 좀비의 천지로 유혈이 낭자함에 공포감으로 물들게 된다. 이미 숲은 살육과 잔인함이 가득한 죽음의 숲으로 변해 버렸고,뒤늦게 새로운 나무 수액을 발견하여 실험을 하던 과학자들이 좀비로 변해 버리게 되고...
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In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.
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.
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"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".
