Louise Weard

Louise Weard

Birth : 1994-03-04, Saskatoon - Saskatchewan - Canada

History

Louise Weard is a filmmaker of many hats with a degree in Film Semiotics. Hailing from Western Canada, she emerged in the underground horror community with her breakout body-horror featurette Computer Hearts and established CyberCraft Video with her filmmaking partner, Dionne Copland, in 2016. She has been obsessed with deeply personal 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 transgender woman seeking a back alley surgery. In 2016 she produced the micro-budget queer horror feature Cuties followed by the drama Cold Wind Blowing, which released in March of 2022. You can find more of her work in Vancouver's Transgender Expressions Haven Art Gallery and the upcoming book Divergent Terror: The Crossroads of Queerness and Horror.

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Louise Weard
Louise Weard
Louise Weard
Louise Weard
Louise Weard

Movies

100 Best Kills: Texas Birth Control, Dick Destruction
Director
100 Best Kills dates back to the earliest days of Fantastic Fest, a cornerstone of the fest’s grand tradition of lowbrow pandemonium. In previous years, we’ve focused our knee-slapping man-reaping sights on everything from vehicular mayhem to gut-busting infanticide. We brought you Vehikills and decapitations during the pandemic years; You sick and depraved fools still couldn’t get enough! We were banging our heads against the warm walls of the Alamo and it must have been the perfect mix of patriotism and stupidity that opened the floodgates to creative genius. For this, my hungry hippos, we said to ourselves, We must bring in Louise Weard, Filmmaker, writer, programmer, and even a Canadian, to join our very own Zack Carlson to help make this the greatest kills of all time. We proudly raise the flag, salute your shorts, and present 100 BEST KILLS : Texas Birth Control, Dick Destruction... A celebration and reliably comforting countdown of castrations.
100 Best Kills: Texas Birth Control, Dick Destruction
Host
100 Best Kills dates back to the earliest days of Fantastic Fest, a cornerstone of the fest’s grand tradition of lowbrow pandemonium. In previous years, we’ve focused our knee-slapping man-reaping sights on everything from vehicular mayhem to gut-busting infanticide. We brought you Vehikills and decapitations during the pandemic years; You sick and depraved fools still couldn’t get enough! We were banging our heads against the warm walls of the Alamo and it must have been the perfect mix of patriotism and stupidity that opened the floodgates to creative genius. For this, my hungry hippos, we said to ourselves, We must bring in Louise Weard, Filmmaker, writer, programmer, and even a Canadian, to join our very own Zack Carlson to help make this the greatest kills of all time. We proudly raise the flag, salute your shorts, and present 100 BEST KILLS : Texas Birth Control, Dick Destruction... A celebration and reliably comforting countdown of castrations.
Cold Wind Blowing
Sound Editor
When a group of young friends take a trip to a remote mountain to get away from their families for Christmas, their stress-free getaway turns into a nightmare. Trapped in a cabin by a supernatural creature, their fight for survival puts their fracturing relationships to the test as it becomes increasingly clear that all of them won’t be surviving the holidays.
Cold Wind Blowing
Producer
When a group of young friends take a trip to a remote mountain to get away from their families for Christmas, their stress-free getaway turns into a nightmare. Trapped in a cabin by a supernatural creature, their fight for survival puts their fracturing relationships to the test as it becomes increasingly clear that all of them won’t be surviving the holidays.
Cold Wind Blowing
Editor
When a group of young friends take a trip to a remote mountain to get away from their families for Christmas, their stress-free getaway turns into a nightmare. Trapped in a cabin by a supernatural creature, their fight for survival puts their fracturing relationships to the test as it becomes increasingly clear that all of them won’t be surviving the holidays.
Cold Wind Blowing
Director of Photography
When a group of young friends take a trip to a remote mountain to get away from their families for Christmas, their stress-free getaway turns into a nightmare. Trapped in a cabin by a supernatural creature, their fight for survival puts their fracturing relationships to the test as it becomes increasingly clear that all of them won’t be surviving the holidays.
W.F.L.T.
Director of Photography
With their wives going out for the night, four long time friends decide to have a poker night, where old emotions and new dramas rear their ugly heads.
Ambition
Writer
The Fool performs a Magickal Work in hopes of cosmic suicide.
Ambition
Director
The Fool performs a Magickal Work in hopes of cosmic suicide.
Ambition
Director of Photography
The Fool performs a Magickal Work in hopes of cosmic suicide.
Ambition
The Fool
The Fool performs a Magickal Work in hopes of cosmic suicide.
Cuties
Producer
A group of gay teenagers are picked off by a mysterious killer during the first month of their senior year, while insecure boy Micah goes through a crisis of self-worth as he can't grasp why the killer has no interest in coming after him.
Cuties
Director of Photography
A group of gay teenagers are picked off by a mysterious killer during the first month of their senior year, while insecure boy Micah goes through a crisis of self-worth as he can't grasp why the killer has no interest in coming after him.
Haxx Deadroom
Sound Editor
Lucy brings her girlfriend Linda to an underground internet forum meet-up. The evening does not go as planned.
Haxx Deadroom
Editor
Lucy brings her girlfriend Linda to an underground internet forum meet-up. The evening does not go as planned.
Haxx Deadroom
Producer
Lucy brings her girlfriend Linda to an underground internet forum meet-up. The evening does not go as planned.
Haxx Deadroom
Director of Photography
Lucy brings her girlfriend Linda to an underground internet forum meet-up. The evening does not go as planned.
Dionne Copland's Inferno
Editor
INFERNO is a sexy neon-soaked wonderland of perversion, playfulness and girl power. Set in a strip club in the 1990s, nervous dancer Bambi meets Jason and his partying friends in an encounter that will change their lives forever.
Dionne Copland's Inferno
Director of Photography
INFERNO is a sexy neon-soaked wonderland of perversion, playfulness and girl power. Set in a strip club in the 1990s, nervous dancer Bambi meets Jason and his partying friends in an encounter that will change their lives forever.
Chasing Rewind
Writer
A love letter to the video store.
Chasing Rewind
Editor
A love letter to the video store.
Chasing Rewind
Director
A love letter to the video store.
Chasing Rewind
Narrator
A love letter to the video store.
Gutterballs 2: Balls Deep
Director of Photography
BBK returns to wreak havoc on a new group of victims at a bowling alley.
This Is Not a Computer: The Making of Computer Hearts
Editor
A documentary which examines the making of Computer Hearts and the perils of no-budget student film making.
This Is Not a Computer: The Making of Computer Hearts
Director
A documentary which examines the making of Computer Hearts and the perils of no-budget student film making.
This Is Not a Computer: The Making of Computer Hearts
Self
A documentary which examines the making of Computer Hearts and the perils of no-budget student film making.
S.I.D.S.
Sound Designer
After an unexpected pregnancy The Patient is terrified at the prospect of fatherhood, and after being denied an orchiectomy by their doctor they seek to have the surgery performed illegally at a seedy motel.
S.I.D.S.
Editor
After an unexpected pregnancy The Patient is terrified at the prospect of fatherhood, and after being denied an orchiectomy by their doctor they seek to have the surgery performed illegally at a seedy motel.
S.I.D.S.
Writer
After an unexpected pregnancy The Patient is terrified at the prospect of fatherhood, and after being denied an orchiectomy by their doctor they seek to have the surgery performed illegally at a seedy motel.
S.I.D.S.
Director
After an unexpected pregnancy The Patient is terrified at the prospect of fatherhood, and after being denied an orchiectomy by their doctor they seek to have the surgery performed illegally at a seedy motel.
S.I.D.S.
The Patient
After an unexpected pregnancy The Patient is terrified at the prospect of fatherhood, and after being denied an orchiectomy by their doctor they seek to have the surgery performed illegally at a seedy motel.
Computer Hearts
Writer
Albert's stable relationship with his fiancé is jeopardized when he becomes obsessed with a computer simulation.
Computer Hearts
Editor
Albert's stable relationship with his fiancé is jeopardized when he becomes obsessed with a computer simulation.
Computer Hearts
Director
Albert's stable relationship with his fiancé is jeopardized when he becomes obsessed with a computer simulation.
Computer Hearts
Director of Photography
Albert's stable relationship with his fiancé is jeopardized when he becomes obsessed with a computer simulation.
Computer Hearts
Albert
Albert's stable relationship with his fiancé is jeopardized when he becomes obsessed with a computer simulation.
Woundworld
Director of Photography
In a grim motel room, in an endless night, a lonely young woman fights to find her way back home even as the mysterious wound in her side pulls her deeper and deeper into crisis.