He is the director of three short films as well as an accomplished editor and writer. He first became interested in filmmaking as teenager and began his study of film directing at 16. He continued to pursue film at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he studied production and film theory as part of his undergraduate education. The Line is his largest production to date and his most personal. Growing up in Arizona, Bassett was surrounded by debates on immigration and specifically the U.S.-Mexico border. This film is an exploration of the lives of those Arizonans most directly affected by the border-migrant workers and ranchers.