Santiago Bessai is a Canadian filmmaker and documentarian. Hailing from Toronto and Montreal, he travelled to the UK to study Ethnographic and Documentary film at University College London. Seeking to explore personal effects of the industrial world, his latest work returns to Canada into the remote, desolated sites of the logging industry, documenting the work of treeplanters.
Filmography
FALL AWAKE, 2021, short fiction
THE HIGH ROAD, 2020, 5 min, short documentary
SUPERFOOD, 2019, 6 min, short film
PAY TO PLAY, 5 min, short documentary
HEIR, 2018, 17 min, short fiction