Known for 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.
Born
March 4, 1994 (age 32)
Birthplace
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Filmography
106 films


Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage
2026 · 2h 7m
country: Canada
Izzy does everything in her power to stop her partner from transitioning.


Castration Movie Expansion Pack i. You're Weird, But I Love You!
2026 · 1h 14m
country: Canada
A feature-length deleted scenes movie from the Blu-ray release of the anthology series Castration Movie.


Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds
2025 · 5h
country: Canada
In New York, Circle tries to leave a trans separatist cult.


Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps
2024 · 4h 35m
country: Canada
Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair is a trans sex worker trying to get by in Vancouver while also mentoring her recently-out friend Adeline and making an attempt at pursuing actual motherhood. Meanwhile, lowly production assistant Turner finds himself dangerously spiraling into inceldom as his current relationship implodes.


100 Best Kills: Texas Birth Control, Dick Destruction
2022 · 1h 30m
country: Canada
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.


Ravine Angel: Ambition
2020 · 5m
country: Canada
The Fool performs a Magickal Work in hopes of cosmic suicide.
Chasing Rewind
Chasing Rewind
2016 · 10m
country: Canada
An interview with Z-movie director Vince D’Amato (director of Carmilla, the Lesbian Vampire aka Vampires vs Zombies) serves as an opportunity for a nostalgic reflection on video stores, on how the landscape of the home video world has changed, and on the importance it had in shaping the imagery of the underground scene.
This Is Not a Computer: The Making of Computer Hearts
This Is Not a Computer: The Making of Computer Hearts
2015 · 1h 38m
country: Unknown
A documentary which examines the making of Computer Hearts and the perils of no-budget student film making.


S.I.D.S.
2014 · 6m
country: Canada
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
2014 · 39m
country: Canada
Albert's stable relationship with his fiancé is jeopardized when he becomes obsessed with a computer simulation.
The Last One
The Last One
2012 · 4m
country: Canada
A surreal haunted house movie created for the 24 Hour Film Race 2012. A group of people, Number One through Five, find themselves trapped in a labyrinthine house in which a Minotaur is orchestrating their demise.


Night School
2005 · 12m
country: Unknown
Louise Weard's first film, written and directed in sixth grade.