Carl Bessai

Interview with Carl Bessai of Sisters&Brothers at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, as presented by Red Carpet Diary.

The feature trailer for Cole which is premiering on VOD on September 15th. From veteran Canadian DIY filmmaker Carl Bessai ('Mothers & Daughters'), 'Cole' follows a handsome, magnetic, talented young writer with dreams too big for his small town. Frustrated and trapped, Cole (Richard de Klerk) has spent his entire life picking up the pieces of his shattered family and using them as the basis for his writing and recreating an alternative reality. When Cole gets the opportunity to bring his talents to the city, he sees his potential for the first time -- and falls in love with Serafina, a beautiful black girl from a privileged background with secrets of her own. Shackled to his family by responsibility, Cole finds it increasingly hard to lead a double life and is forced to choose or do the unthinkable: unite his two worlds.