Carl Bessai

Carl Bessai

Рождение : , Edmonton, Canada

История

​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.

Профиль

Carl Bessai

Фильмы

Kreuzberg
Director
The Lears
Writer
A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.
The Lears
Director
A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.
Rehearsal
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!
Rehearsal
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!
Rehearsal
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!
Ungodly Acts
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.
Mr. Miracle
Director
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.
Bad City
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.
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.
No Clue
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?
No Clue
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?
Объятия вампира
Director
Несколько сотен лет назад двое незнакомцев провели над девушкой странный ритуал: влили под кожу кровь вампира. После этого их дом атаковала разъярённая вампирша. Наше время. В колледж в небольшом городке приезжает учиться Шарлотта, с виду обычная девушка. Но у неё странная болезнь крови. Может, поэтому её мучают видения и странные ночные кошмары, после которых она просыпается не в своей постели, а где-нибудь на улице...
Повторяющие реальность
Director
Трое молодых пациентов реабилитационной клиники застряли в ловушке времени. Каждый день они просыпаются в одном и том же чудовищном дне. И каждый день им необходимо его пережить. Можно ли остаться человеком в этом бесконечно повторяющемся лабиринте?
Сестры и братья
Director
Уникальная и часто веселая связь между сестрами и братьями исследуется в этой новой комедии. Рори всегда хотел быть знаменитым, и не рад, что его брат побил его на этом поле. Сара потрясена, обнаружив, что у нее есть индийская сводная сестра. Никки и Мэгги отправляются в поездку с неудачником, который делает их примирение невозможным. И Луиза, которая пытается выяснить, действительно ли ее брат психически болен?
Fathers & Sons
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.
Fathers & Sons
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.
Fathers & Sons
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.
Fathers & Sons
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.
Gloves of Stone
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.
Cole
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.
Mothers & Daughters
Director
Comedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers.
Normal
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.
Normal
Director
A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.
Unnatural & Accidental
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
Расчлененный
Author
Международная корпорация проводит генетические эксперименты для повышения плодоноса деревьев в ограниченной секции леса. Но, как это обычно происходит — эксперимент выходит из под контроля и превращает местных лесорубов, а также группу активистов по борьбе с загрязнением окружающей среды в, так называемых, «инфицированных» — ненасытных пожирателей плоти, охотящихся на нескольких оставшихся в живых людей, пока те осмысливают ситуацию и решают, как предотвратить кризис…
Расчлененный
Director
Международная корпорация проводит генетические эксперименты для повышения плодоноса деревьев в ограниченной секции леса. Но, как это обычно происходит — эксперимент выходит из под контроля и превращает местных лесорубов, а также группу активистов по борьбе с загрязнением окружающей среды в, так называемых, «инфицированных» — ненасытных пожирателей плоти, охотящихся на нескольких оставшихся в живых людей, пока те осмысливают ситуацию и решают, как предотвратить кризис…
Émile
Director
In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.
Lola
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.
Out of Orbit: The Life and Times of Marshall McLuhan
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.
Johnny
Writer
Johnny, the megalomaniac leader of a group of squeegee kids, finds a video camera and pushes his followers into "acting" out increasingly dangerous "scenes".
Johnny
Director
Johnny, the megalomaniac leader of a group of squeegee kids, finds a video camera and pushes his followers into "acting" out increasingly dangerous "scenes".