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Louise Weard
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 emergedā¦
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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.
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2026
Platypus
Movie Lighting Technician
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2026
ee
Movie Executive Producer
- 2026
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2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Movie Queer Assistant
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2026
Horrorgirl Mixtape
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2026
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2026
CAMP
Movie Thanks
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2026
Une Fraise
Movie (uncredited)
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2026
The Serpent's Skin
Movie Producer
- 2026
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2026
Castration Movie Expansion Pack i. You're Weird, But I Love You!
Movie Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair
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2025
Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds
Movie Director
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2024
Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps
Movie Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair
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2024
The Estrogen Gospel
Movie Ghost (voice)
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2023
Chirophobia
Movie Sound Editor
- 2022
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2022
Cold Wind Blowing
Movie Sound Editor
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2021
W.F.L.T.
Movie Director of Photography
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2020
Ravine Angel: Ambition
Movie The Fool
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2020
Cuties
Movie Producer
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2017
Softcore
Movie Director of Photography
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2017
Haxx Deadroom
Movie Director of Photography
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2016
Dionne Copland's Inferno
Movie Editor
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2016
Chasing Rewind
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2015
A Thousand Words
Movie Boyfriend
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2015
Don't Look Down
Movie Producer
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2015
Gutterballs 2: Balls Deep
Movie Director of Photography
- 2015
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2014
S.I.D.S.
Movie The Patient
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2014
House That Kills People/Hide
Movie Associate Producer
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2014
Computer Hearts
Movie Albert
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2012
The Last One
Movie Director
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2005
Night School
Movie Principal
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Castration Movie ā Year of the Hyaena
Movie Michaela
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Castration Movie Part 4: Endless September
Movie Michaela
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HUMAN ERROR
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Woundworld
Movie Director of Photography
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Riding Shotgun
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Tell Me Iām Worthless
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Rough on Rats
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