Directing
Louise Weard
EN cinema · 41 credits
Born
4 March 1994 (age 32)
Birthplace
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Louise Weard is a filmmaker with a degree in Film Semiotics. Hailing from Western Canada, she cut her teeth working as the cinematographer for FX legend Ryan Nicholson and emerged as an exciting new voice in underground horror with her breakout body-horror featurette Computer Hearts. Along with her filmmaking partner Dionne Copland, Louise established CyberCraft Video in 2016 and produced the short films Inferno and Haxx Deadroom, as well as the micro-budget queer slasher film Cuties. After film school she produced Dionne Copland's feature-length debut, the cabin-in-the-woods creature-feature Cold Wind Blowing, which was released in 2022. She has been obsessed with deeply personal (and perverse) movies that push the envelope for as long as she can remember, which culminated in her winning a Most Fearless Performance Award in 2015 for her short film S.I.D.S. in which she played herself as a transsexual woman seeking a back alley surgery. Nearly a decade after completing her debut film, Computer Hearts, it was rediscovered as a significant work of transgender horror cinema and screened at The Music Box in Chicago, IL during their Music Box of Horrors event in October 2022. Her film theory writing encompasses work on the on-screen semiotics of the Marquis de Sade and a comprehensive history of films featuring phallic genital trauma, the latter of which can be found in the book Divergent Terror: The Crossroads of Queerness and Horror. In September 2022, she co-hosted the 100 Best Kills event at Fantastic Fest in a night dedicated to castration scenes in film. For Louise, cinema is about illuminating the most secretive and problematic parts of the self and using storytelling to connect with other freaks and outcasts so that nobody has to feel alone. Her obsessions include ritual Magick, Gnosticism, and UFOs, and when she's not making movies you'll find her championing unsung visionary filmmakers through her film writing and her roles at various film festivals. She has also directed some fierce music videos for musical artists Ravine Angel and Lauren Bousfield, and while filming one she may have "accidentally" performed a ritual that made her trans.
Known for
Filmography
Castration Movie Part 4: Endless September
as Michaela, Director, Producer, Story, Editor, Camera Operator
Woundworld
Woundworld
Director of Photography
Tell Me I’m Worthless
Producer
Riding Shotgun
Producer
Castration Movie Anthology v.
Director, Producer, Editor, Camera Operator, Story
Castration Movie ⅗ Year of the Hyaena
as Michaela, Director, Producer, Editor, Camera Operator, Story, Sound Recordist
Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage
as Michaela, Director, Producer, Editor, Story, Sound Recordist, "A" Camera Operator
Castration Movie Expansion Pack i. You're Weird, But I Love You!
as Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair, Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Story, Editor, Sound Recordist, Camera Operator
Castration Movie Documentary Anthology i. You Had To Be There
as Herself, Producer, Camera Operator
Une Fraise
as (uncredited)
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
as Queer Assistant, Thanks
Horrorgirl Mixtape
as Self (archive footage)
Castration Movie World Tour Anthology ii. The Best of Both a Question and a Comment
as Herself, Producer, Cinematography
The Serpent's Skin
Producer, Thanks
ee
Executive Producer
CAMP
Thanks
Platypus
Lighting Technician
Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds
Director, Editor, Producer, "A" Camera Operator, Story, Sound Recordist, Executive Producer
The Estrogen Gospel
as Ghost (voice)
Castration Movie Anthology I. Traps
as Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair, Director, Producer, Editor, Story, Executive Producer, Sound Recordist, Camera Operator
Chirophobia
Sound Editor
100 Best Kills: Texas Birth Control, Dick Destruction
as Host, Director
Cold Wind Blowing
Director of Photography, Editor, Producer, Sound Editor
W.F.L.T.
2021
W.F.L.T.
Director of Photography
Ravine Angel: Ambition
as The Fool, Director of Photography, Director, Writer
Cuties
Director of Photography, Producer
Haxx Deadroom
Director of Photography, Producer, Editor, Sound Editor, Story
Softcore
Director of Photography, Editor
Chasing Rewind
2016
Chasing Rewind
as Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Editor, Writer
Dionne Copland's Inferno
Director of Photography, Editor
This Is Not a Computer: The Making of Computer Hearts
2015
This Is Not a Computer: The Making of Computer Hearts
as Self, Director, Editor
A Thousand Words
as Boyfriend, Associate Producer, Editor, Cinematography
Gutterballs 2: Balls Deep
Director of Photography
Don't Look Down
Producer, Cinematography, Editor
Computer Hearts
as Albert, Director of Photography, Director, Editor, Writer, Producer
S.I.D.S.
as The Patient, Director, Writer, Editor, Sound Designer, Original Music Composer, Production Design
House That Kills People/Hide
Associate Producer, Cinematography, Editor
Night School
as Principal, Director, Writer, Editor, Camera Operator