Louise Weard
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 ...
A love letter to the video store. (more)
This Is Not a Computer: The Making of Computer Hearts (2015)
A documentary which examines the making of Computer Hearts and the perils of no-budget student film making. (more)
A documentary which examines the making of Computer Hearts and the perils of no-budget student film making. (more)
S.I.D.S. (2014)
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. (more)
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. (more)
Computer Hearts (2014)
Albert's stable relationship with his fiancé is jeopardized when he becomes obsessed with a computer simulation. (more)
Albert's stable relationship with his fiancé is jeopardized when he becomes obsessed with a computer simulation. (more)
The Last One (2012)
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. (more)
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. (more)
Broken Water (2011)
Broken Water follows the story of Adam, a young male, that after drowning on a camping trip with his friends discovers himself within a strange plane of existence, a place between life and death. (more)
Broken Water follows the story of Adam, a young male, that after drowning on a camping trip with his friends discovers himself within a strange plane of existence, a place between life and death. (more)
Orange to Black (2009)
Three convicts, Georgy, Vincent, and Cloud have just escaped from prison. The stakes are raised when the search for Vincent's hidden stash causes Cloud to decide he will stop at nothing to have the money all to himself. He kills Georgy then plans on killing Vincent ... (more)
Three convicts, Georgy, Vincent, and Cloud have just escaped from prison. The stakes are raised when the search for Vincent's hidden stash causes Cloud to decide he will stop at nothing to have the money all to himself. He kills Georgy then plans on killing Vincent ... (more)
Ambition (2020)
The Fool performs a Magickal Work in hopes of cosmic suicide. (more)
The Fool performs a Magickal Work in hopes of cosmic suicide. (more)
100 Best Kills: Texas Birth Control, Dick Destruction (2022)
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 ... (more)
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 ... (more)
The Estrogen Gospel (2024)
A young transgender woman takes a hike through the English countryside in an attempt to resolve her spiritual crisis - but an ancient evil strives to ensure that she never completes her journey. (more)
A young transgender woman takes a hike through the English countryside in an attempt to resolve her spiritual crisis - but an ancient evil strives to ensure that she never completes her journey. (more)