Roshell Bissett is a Canadian independent filmmaker who wrote and directed several short films including the award winning "Cotton Candy" and one feature length film entitled "Winter Lily"

Biography

Roshell Bissett is the fifth and only daughter of James Bissett

James Byron Bissett

James Byron Bissett is a former Canadian diplomat. He was High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago and later Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Yugoslavia, Albania, and Bulgaria.- Career :...

 who was a Canadian diplomat. Roshell graduated from Sir Robert Borden High School

Sir Robert Borden High School

Sir Robert Borden High School is a high school located on Greenbank Road in Ottawa, Ontario. Adjacent to the main office of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, this school was founded in 1969 and named after the late Conservative Prime Minister of Canada, Robert Borden.Architecturally, the...

 and then later went to the University of Ottawa, where she graduated in 1991 with a BFA in painting. She completed a second BFA, this time in cinema at Concordia University in Montreal in 1993.

Career

Roshell began making films in the early 90s including the short films "Blue Canary" 1991, "Stella Signata" 1993 and "Eating Noodles by the Mekong" 1994. Her most significant film "Cotton Candy" was shot in Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

 in 1995 and went on to receive the Best Short Film award at the Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...

 1997 and the Best short film at the New York Underground Film Festival

New York Underground Film Festival

Founded in 1994 by filmmakers Todd Phillips and Andrew Gurland, the New York Underground Film Festival was an annual event that occurred each March at Anthology Film Archives in New York City from 1994 through 2008...

 in 1998. In 1998 she directed and co-wrote the feature film Winter Lily. She taught film production for a short time at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

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