Carl Bessai
Nascimento : , Edmonton, Canada
História
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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!
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
O corpo de Melissa Cooper é encontrado pendurado em um balanço, e acredita-se ser um suicídio até Adam alegar que ele a matou a mando do marido, líder de um culto religioso. Investigações exploram o casamento de Melissa, quem a matou e se ela foi mesmo assassinada.
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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.
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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.
Co-Producer
Num certo dia, uma misteriosa e linda mulher entra no escritório de Leo e implora por sua ajuda para encontrar seu irmão desaparecido. Pensando bem, isso seria apenas mais um simples caso no dia a dia na vida de um detetive. O problema e que Leo não e um detetive. Ele apenas vende publicidade e o escritório da verdadeiro detetive e do outro lado do corredor. Por engano, a mulher acabou abrindo a sua porta e agora ele concorda em tentar encontrar o irmão da bela mulher, pois a verdadeiro detetive esta fora da cidade por algumas semanas. Seroa tão complicado assim solucionar esse tal "desaparecido do Irmão"? Quando Leo descobre que o caso é mais difícil do que pensava, ele percebe que já e tarde demais para sair, pois quando você está em uma investigação, tudo que você pode fazer e continuar investigando.
Director
Num certo dia, uma misteriosa e linda mulher entra no escritório de Leo e implora por sua ajuda para encontrar seu irmão desaparecido. Pensando bem, isso seria apenas mais um simples caso no dia a dia na vida de um detetive. O problema e que Leo não e um detetive. Ele apenas vende publicidade e o escritório da verdadeiro detetive e do outro lado do corredor. Por engano, a mulher acabou abrindo a sua porta e agora ele concorda em tentar encontrar o irmão da bela mulher, pois a verdadeiro detetive esta fora da cidade por algumas semanas. Seroa tão complicado assim solucionar esse tal "desaparecido do Irmão"? Quando Leo descobre que o caso é mais difícil do que pensava, ele percebe que já e tarde demais para sair, pois quando você está em uma investigação, tudo que você pode fazer e continuar investigando.
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Uma adolescente tímida e resguardada que acaba de sair de uma escola católica só para meninas para uma nova vida na universidade. Mas um mal antigo a seguiu até aqui, atormentando-a com pesadelos perturbadores e tentando-a com desejos proibidos. É uma fome que só pode ser saciada através dos prazeres sensuais da carne e uma sede de sangue. É uma batalha pela sua alma e que ela está a perder. Mas Charlotte é uma lutadora.
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Repeaters acompanha três pacientes de uma clínica de reabilitação que recebem um dia livre para visitar suas famílias e tentar reestabelecer laços. Kyle (Dustin Milligan) tenta se redimir com sua irmã; Sonia (Amanda Crew)tenta evitar seu pai doente, que acaba por falecer; e Weeks (Richard de Klerk) parte para visitar seu violento pai na prisão. As consequências desse dia não são nada agradáveis e mudam suas vidas para sempre.
Director
As relações entre irmãs e irmãos que precisam aprender a superar seus conflitos. Justin e Rory se confrontam em relação a fama, Jerry está levando sua irmã à loucura, Nikki tem que lidar com a irritante Maggie, e Sarah descobre que tem uma meia irmã.
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.
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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.
Writer
Uma história contemporânea de boxe, de um pai e de seu filho que tentam superar as grandes diferenças para treinar um jovem boxeador mexicano proveniente das ruas da Cidade de México. O coração flui com os socos que atiramos para a vida.
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
Em Earlville, uma cidade do centro-oeste, Irma (Jessica Lange) e Roy Applewood (Tom Wilkinson) estão comemorando 25 anos de casados. Roy revela para Irma e o reverendo Dale Muncie (Randall Arney) que é uma mulher no corpo de um homem e isto está sendo intolerável, assim pretende fazer uma operação para mudança de sexo. Ele passa a usar cada vez mais adereços femininos, com esta atitude sendo vista com intolerância e repúdio pelos colegas de trabalho e membros da sua igreja. Apesar do choque inicial, Irma tenta entendê-lo e apoiá-lo nesta trajetória, que o faz se tornar "Ruth".
Director
Em Earlville, uma cidade do centro-oeste, Irma (Jessica Lange) e Roy Applewood (Tom Wilkinson) estão comemorando 25 anos de casados. Roy revela para Irma e o reverendo Dale Muncie (Randall Arney) que é uma mulher no corpo de um homem e isto está sendo intolerável, assim pretende fazer uma operação para mudança de sexo. Ele passa a usar cada vez mais adereços femininos, com esta atitude sendo vista com intolerância e repúdio pelos colegas de trabalho e membros da sua igreja. Apesar do choque inicial, Irma tenta entendê-lo e apoiá-lo nesta trajetória, que o faz se tornar "Ruth".
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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A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest...
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A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest...
Director
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.
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".
