[1] Bissonnette and his childhood friend Steven Clark collaborated as codirectors and cowriters of the 2002 film Looking for Leonard.
[2] On his own, Bissonnette followed up with the films Who Loves the Sun in 2006,[3] Passenger Side in 2009,[4] and Death of a Ladies' Man in 2020.
[1] Bissonnette's films frequently use the literary or musical work of Leonard Cohen as a thematic motif; Looking for Leonard centred in part on a character's fantasies of escaping her life to run away with Cohen after reading his novel Beautiful Losers, while both Passenger Side and Death of a Ladies' Man use Cohen's music in their soundtracks.
[5] He also works in advertising as a commercial director,[5] and published the novel Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock in 2008.
[6] He is the brother of actor Joel Bissonnette,[4] and was married to actress Molly Parker from 2002 to 2016.