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.
The Pandemic Tree Planter, 52 min, Documentary, 2023
Planted in 2020, 18 min, Documentary, 2021
Fall Awake, 17 min, Fiction, 2021
The High Road, 5 min, Documentary, 2020
Superfood, 6 min, Essay, 2019
Pay to Play, 5 min, Documentary, 2018
Heir, 17 min, Fiction, 2018