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Carl Bessai
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 was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Director at the 29th Genie Awards for his 2007 film ''Normal'', which was also a nominee for Best Motion Picture."Victoria-shot film up for Genies; Normal, directed by Carl Bessai, depicts fallout from accident". ''Victoria Times-Colonist'', February 11, 2009. He is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada, the Writers Guild of Canada, and the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association. Selected filmography *''Johnny'' (1999) *''Lola'' (2001) *'' Emile'' (2003) *'' Severed: Forest of the Dead'' (2005) *''Unnatural & Accidental'' (2006) *''Normal'' (2007) *'' Mothers & Daughters'' (2008) *''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton
Edmonton ( ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city anchors the north end of what Statistics Canada defines as the " Calgary–Edmonton Corridor". As of 2021, Edmonton had a city population of 1,010,899 and a metropolitan population of 1,418,118, making it the fifth-largest city and sixth-largest metropolitan area (CMA) in Canada. Edmonton is North America's northernmost large city and metropolitan area comprising over one million people each. A resident of Edmonton is known as an ''Edmontonian''. Edmonton's historic growth has been facilitated through the absorption of five adjacent urban municipalities ( Strathcona, North Edmonton, West Edmonton, Beverly and Jasper Place) hus Edmonton is said to be a combination of two cities, two towns and two villages./ref> in addition to a series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Normal (2007 Film)
''Normal'' is a 2007 Canadian drama film about a group of unrelated people who are brought together in the wake of a deadly car crash. The film was directed by Carl Bessai, and stars Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Zegers, Callum Keith Rennie and Andrew Airlie. Cast *Carrie-Anne Moss as Catherine *Kevin Zegers as Jordie *Callum Keith Rennie as Walt Braugher *Andrew Airlie as Dale *Tygh Runyan as Dennis Braugher *Camille Sullivan as Denise *Lauren Lee Smith as Sherri Banks *Michael Riley as Carl * Brittney Irvin as Melissa *Allison Hossack as Abby *Cameron Bright as Brady *Tara Frederick as Sylvie Farber *Benjamin Ratner as Tim *Zak Santiago as Bob the Social Worker *Hrothgar Mathews as Jerry Awards Rennie won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 29th Genie Awards. The film was also a nominee for Best Picture, but lost to '' Passchendaele''. It won the award for Best Western Canadian Film at the 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival. Reception The fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Clue
''No Clue'' is a 2013 Canadian dark comedy film written by Brent Butt and directed by Carl Bessai, starring Butt, Amy Smart and David Koechner. Plot Advertising salesman Leo (Butt) unwittingly assumes the role of a private investigator to help Kyra (Smart), but becomes embroiled in a risky and ever-deepening murder mystery. In Canada, a woman named Kyra goes to the office of the middle-aged clumsy salesman Leo Falloon by mistake believing that he is a private detective. She hires him to help her to find her missing brother Milles Severeign and Leo is so spellbound by the blonde that he does not tell her that he is not who she is looking for. Leo decides to pose as a private detective and he gets involved in a complicated scheme of fraud by computer game corporations. Cast * Brent Butt as Leo * Amy Smart as Kyra * David Koechner as Ernie * David Cubitt as Horn * Dan Payne as Church * Dustin Milligan as Danny * Kirsten Prout as Reese * Garwin Sanford as Nelson * Nancy Robertson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sisters & Brothers
''Sisters & Brothers'' is a 2011 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Carl Bessai. The film explores the relationships of four sets of siblings who have not (in one case, never) had contact for some time. It is the final film in Bessai's ''Family X'' trilogy exploring family relations, following '' Mothers & Daughters'' (2008) and '' Fathers & Sons'' (2010). The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2011, followed by a limited release in Canada on March 23, 2012. Cast * Cory Monteith as Justin * Dustin Milligan as Rory, Justin's brother * Amanda Crew as Nikki, an actress * Benjamin Ratner as Jerry, a schizophrenic * Gabrielle Miller as Louise, Jerry's sister * Jay Brazeau as Ringo, Jerry's "lawyer" * Camille Sullivan as Maggie, Nikki's half-sister * Tom Scholte as Henry, the 'producer', meets Nikki * Kacey Rohl Kacey Rohl (born August 6, 1991) is a Canadian actress. She is known for playing Sterling Fitch in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fathers & Sons (2010 Film)
''Fathers & Sons'' is a 2010 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Carl Bessai. An unofficial sequel to his 2008 film '' Mothers & Daughters'', it used a similar process of improvisational character development to dramatize several stories of relationships between fathers and sons. Bernie (Benjamin Ratner) meets his estranged father Anton (Jay Brazeau) for the first time at his mother's funeral; Kama (Stephen Lobo) is an accountant who is embarrassed to introduce his fiancée (Sonja Bennett) to his flamboyant gay Bollywood choreographer father Satish (Manoj Sood); Viv (Viv Leacock) and his father Blu (Blu Mankuma) don't see eye to eye about money; Vince (Vincent Gale), Sean (Tyler Labine), Hrothgar (Hrothgar Mathews), and Tom (Tom Scholte) are four brothers, not especially close, who are in for a surprise at the reading of their late father's will. The film won the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best British Columbia Film in 2010. Bessai followed up with a third film i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Repeaters
''Repeaters'' is a 2010 Canadian thriller film directed by Carl Bessai, written by Arne Olsen, and starring Dustin Milligan, Amanda Crew, and Richard de Klerk as young drug addicts who find themselves stuck in a time loop. Plot Kyle, Sonia, and Michael are inmates at a rehabilitation facility. Bob, the administrator, tasks them with apologizing to those they have hurt with their addiction. When Kyle attempts to apologize to his teenage sister Charlotte, she angrily blows him off, and the principal kicks him off school grounds. Sonia goes to the hospital where her dying father is a patient, but she is unable to bring herself to face him. Michael visits his father in jail, but the conversation is cut short by his father's abusive threats. When Bob asks them to discuss their day in group therapy, they refuse, and Michael storms off. While discussing the pointlessness of Bob's therapy, Sonia learns that her father has died. As the trio tries to deal with their emotional pain, a storm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cole (film)
''Cole'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Carl Bessai and released in 2009."Plight of the outsider enthralls director; Carl Bessai's latest film about a young man who longs to get out of Lytton". ''Vancouver Sun'', October 8, 2009. The film stars Richard de Klerk as Cole Chambers, a young man from Lytton who longs to escape his smalltown existence with his dysfunctional family. He is accepted into a university creative writing program in Vancouver, where he begins a romance with Serafina (Kandyse McClure), but faces a difficult choice when his friends and family back home struggle to survive without his presence."Portrait of a wannabe artist". ''The Province'', September 17, 2010. The cast also includes Rebecca Jenkins as Cole's mentally ill mother, Sonja Bennett as his sister Maybelline, and Chad Willett as Maybelline's abusive husband Bobby. The film premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, and screened at a number of other film festivals before going int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mothers & Daughters (2008 Film)
''Mothers and Daughters'' is a 2008 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Carl Bessai."Overwrought relationships, underwritten with love" '''', May 28, 2009. The film, an exploration of mother-daughter relationships, centres on a group of women in . Micki () is a romance novelist who has tried to relate to her daughter Rebecca ( |
Unnatural & Accidental
''Unnatural & Accidental'' is a 2006 Canadian film directed by Carl Bessai and starring Carmen Moore, Callum Keith Rennie, and Tantoo Cardinal.Alison Gillmor, "Play's powerful message muted by overly stagy film". ''Winnipeg Free Press'', December 8, 2006. It was adapted from a Marie Clements play ''The Unnatural and Accidental Women''. Premise ''Unnatural & Accidental'' is about a First Nations woman named Rebecca (Carmen Moore) who returns home to Vancouver to be with her dying father and searches for her mother, Rita Jones (Tantoo Cardinal), who has been missing for years. Her journey leads her into the troubled life faced by many First Nations women who have ended up killed. Awards 2007 * Genie Award for Best Achievement in Music – Original Song – Jennifer Kreisberg, song "Have Hope" * Leo Award for Best Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama – Callum Keith Rennie * Leo Award for Best Picture Editing in a Feature Length Drama – Julian Clarke * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Of The Dead
"Forest of the Dead" is the ninth episode of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was first broadcast by BBC One on 7 June 2008. It is the second of a two-part story; the first part, "Silence in the Library", aired on 31 May. In the episode, the time-travelling temp Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) is trapped inside a virtual reality in a planet-sized library's hard drive in the 51st century and has false memories implanted of a married life. At the same time, another time traveller, the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant), seeks to rescue Donna, and thousands of other humans saved inside the library hard drive while being pursued by the microscopic swarm called Vashta Nerada. The episode also features the death of River Song (Alex Kingston), an archaeologist who has a close relationship with the Doctor, but because of the non-linearity of this partnership, the Doctor in the episode has only just met River. Plot The Tenth Doctor, River, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emile (film)
''Emile'' is a Canadian film made in 2003 by Carl Bessai and released widely in 2004. The cast includes Ian McKellen and Deborah Kara Unger. The film received 2 Genie Award nominations in 2005 for '' Best Achievement in Overall Sound'' and '' Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role'' for Ian McKellen. Plot As a young man, Emile went to England on a university scholarship, leaving behind his brutal older brother Carl and his creative younger brother Freddy to run the family farm in Saskatchewan. Despite promising Freddy that he would return, Emile stayed in England and became an academic, turning his back on his Canadian past and even acquiring an English accent, while his brothers died one after the other in tragic circumstances: Freddy gassing himself with exhaust fumes in his pick-up; Carl dying in a crash in the same pick-up. On his brief return (presumably for Carl's funeral) the authorities think he is there to adopt Carl's young daughter Nadia, but he abandons her si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers Guild Of Canada
The Writers Guild of Canada is an organization representing more than 2,500 professional writers working in film, television, radio, and digital media production in Canada. Members of the Guild write dramatic TV series, feature films, Movies of the Week, documentaries, animation, comedy and variety series, children's and educational programming, radio drama, as well as corporate videos and digital media productions. The organization administers the annual WGC Screenwriting Awards. The WGC is the voice of professional Canadian screenwriters - lobbying on their behalf, protecting their interests, and working to raise the profile of screenwriters and screenwriting. Most importantly, on behalf of its members, the Guild negotiates, administers and enforces collective agreements, setting out minimum rates, terms, and working conditions in the Guild's jurisdiction — all English-language production in Canada. The central collective agreement, the Independent Production Agreement (IPA), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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