Louise Weard
Directing
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
Directing16
Editing20
Camera19
movieCastration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage
2026
"A" Camera Operator
movieCastration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds
2025
"A" Camera Operator
movieCastration Movie Anthology i. Traps
2024
Camera Operator
movieCold Wind Blowing
2022
Director of Photography
W.F.L.T.
2021
Director of Photography
movieRavine Angel: Ambition
2020
Director of Photography
movieCuties
2020
Director of Photography
movieSoftcore
2017
Director of Photography
movieHaxx Deadroom
2017
Director of Photography
movieDionne Copland's Inferno
2016
Director of Photography
movieGutterballs 2: Balls Deep
2015
Director of Photography
movieComputer Hearts
2014
Director of Photography
movieNight School
2005
Camera Operator
Woundworld
Director of Photography
movieCastration Movie Anthology iii. Year of the Hyaena
Camera Operator
movieCastration Movie Anthology v.
Camera Operator
movieCastration Movie Anthology iv. Endless September
Camera Operator
Production19
movieCastration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage
2026
Producer
movieThe Serpent's Skin
2026
Producer
movieCastration Movie Expansion Pack i. You're Weird, But I Love You!
2026
Producer, Executive Producer
movieCastration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds
2025
Producer, Executive Producer
movieCastration Movie Anthology i. Traps
2024
Producer, Executive Producer
movieCold Wind Blowing
2022
Producer
movieCuties
2020
Producer
movieHaxx Deadroom
2017
Producer
movieA Thousand Words
2015
Associate Producer
movieDon't Look Down
2015
Producer
movieHouse That Kills People/Hide
2014
Associate Producer
movieComputer Hearts
2014
Producer
movieTell Me I’m Worthless
Producer
movieRiding Shotgun
Producer
movieee
Executive Producer
Acting17
movieCastration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage
2026
Michaela
movieTeenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
2026
Queer Assistant
movieUne Fraise
2026
(uncredited)
movieCastration Movie Expansion Pack i. You're Weird, But I Love You!
2026
Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair
movieCastration Movie Anthology i. Traps
2024
Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair
movieThe Estrogen Gospel
2024
Ghost (voice)
movieRavine Angel: Ambition
2020
The Fool
Chasing Rewind
2016
Self - Narrator (voice)
movieA Thousand Words
2015
Boyfriend
movieS.I.D.S.
2014
The Patient
movieComputer Hearts
2014
Albert
movieNight School
2005
Principal
Writing13
Sound9
movieCastration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage
2026
Sound Recordist
movieCastration Movie Anthology i. Traps
2024
Sound Recordist
movieChirophobia
2023
Sound Editor
movieCold Wind Blowing
2022
Sound Editor
movieHaxx Deadroom
2017
Sound Editor
movieS.I.D.S.
2014
Sound Designer, Original Music Composer
movieCastration Movie Anthology iii. Year of the Hyaena
Sound Recordist
Crew5
movieCAMP
2026
Thanks
movieA Thousand Words
2015
Cinematography
movieDon't Look Down
2015
Cinematography
movieHouse That Kills People/Hide
2014
Cinematography
Art1
movieS.I.D.S.
2014
Production Design