Article: Emile: "dude, are you doing this movie or not?".

If Carl Bessai were an animal, he'd be a jackrabbit: quick, alert, accustomed to taking chances. Instead, he is a Vancouver filmmaker, which is helpful because I've come to his office to talk about film, specifically about Emile, his latest movie.

He fidgets in his chair like a man unaccustomed to sitting still, crossing and uncrossing his legs, slipping his socked feet underneath him. His untucked blue T-shirt precisely matches his eyes and the blue frames of his glasses. When our conversation turns to the loaded topic of the film's funding, he runs his hand through his spiky blond hair. "Putting the money together for Emile was a nightmare," Bessai recalls. "It ...

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