From her beginnings as the director of A Bog in My Backyard, an environmental documentary produced in association with CBC Rough Cuts, Bissell has built a strong portfolio of factual programming, bringing style and wit to her directing, writing, and on-screen hosting. Her most memorable production is Naked, a provocative documentary about nude activism that has attracted over 1.5 million viewers to CBC Newsworld, making it the most watched documentary ever to air on The Lens.

Bissell’s love of wildlife and anything four-legged, inspired the 13-part series Healing with Animals that she created and co-produced with partner Christian Bruyere for Discovery Health Channel Canada, and which now airs around the world.  This series brought Bissell many accolades including a bronze plaque from the Columbus International Film Festival and three Leo Awards for “Best Information Series,” “Best Director, Information Series,” and “Best Screenwriter, Information Series.”  She also co-produced the series Beyond Invention that is now airing on Discovery Science Channel.

Bissell is completing her fifth season of The Leading Edge, the flagship documentary series produced by Knowledge Network, for which she’s hosted, directed and written well over fifty documentaries, including The Gambia: Communities in Action, which picked up a Bronze Plaque from the Columbus International Film Festival and earned this recognition from the esteemed Stephen Lewis, former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa: “…the film documentary constitute(s) a startling amalgam of intelligence, insight, creativity and what can only be called unabashed enthusiasm…. I don't quite know how the … film-makers pulled it off. I only know that it's an astonishing achievement."

Bissell also co-wrote and co-directed a one-hour documentary about child survivors of the tsunami in north-eastern Sri Lanka that was short-listed for the prestigious Deborah Fletcher Award for excellence in filmmaking on international development.