[1] He is the son of Emmy Award-winning writer Gordon Bressack and voice actress Ellen Gerstell.

[2][3] Bressack's first feature film, My Pure Joy, was released in 2011.

His 2012 film Hate Crime, the story of a Jewish family being terrorized in their home by neo-Nazis, was banned in the UK in 2015 by the BBFC due to the "unremitting manner in which [it] focuses on physical and sexual abuse, aggravated by racist invective.

[5] His 2014 horror film Pernicious was described as "The Ring meets Hostel".

[9][10] Bressack directed the found footage film "To Jennifer" in 2013.