Ariane Louis-Seize

Ariane Louis-Seize is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. She is most noted for her short films Wild Skin (La Peau sauvage), which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards and a Prix Iris nominee for Best Short Film at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards, and Little Waves (Les petites vagues), which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual Canada's Top Ten list in 2018. Her short film The Depths (Les profondeurs) premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.[5] It was subsequently screened at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, where it won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film.[6] She followed up in 2020 with Shooting Star (Comme une comète). Her debut feature film, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant), entered production in 2022 for a planned release in 2023.

Wild Skin (2016)

A woman finds a baby python in her apartment and has a strange connection with it. Together, both snake and woman begin a transformation into something new.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ariane Louis-Seize
CAST:  Marilyn Castonguay  •  Alexis Lefebvre

A woman finds a baby python in her apartment and has a strange connection with it. Together, both snake and woman begin a transformation into something new.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ariane Louis-Seize
CAST:  Marilyn Castonguay  •  Alexis Lefebvre

Little Waves (2018)

After witnessing her cousin enveloped in a steamy new romance, distraught teenage Amélie allows herself to dive into her own fantasies, sparking something much more powerful.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ariane Louis-Seize
CAST:  Alexandra Sicard  •  Jules Roy Sicotte  •  Miranda La Roche-Francoeur  •  Martin Desgagné

After witnessing her cousin enveloped in a steamy new romance, distraught teenage Amélie allows herself to dive into her own fantasies, sparking something much more powerful.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ariane Louis-Seize
CAST:  Alexandra Sicard  •  Jules Roy Sicotte  •  Miranda La Roche-Francoeur  •  Martin Desgagné

The Depths (2019)

Looking for solace while staying in her late mother’s cottage, a young woman instead finds her old scuba gear — a fateful discovery that leads to more watery revelations, in this spellbinding and visually ravishing drama.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ariane Louis-Seize
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Looking for solace while staying in her late mother’s cottage, a young woman instead finds her old scuba gear — a fateful discovery that leads to more watery revelations, in this spellbinding and visually ravishing drama.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ariane Louis-Seize
CAST: 

Shooting Star (2020)

On a family trip to observe the shooting stars, Chloé, a withdrawn teenager, discovers a dazzling attraction for her mother’s new boyfriend.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ariane Louis-Seize
CAST:  Marguerite Bouchard  •  Patrick Hivon  •  Whitney Lafleur

On a family trip to observe the shooting stars, Chloé, a withdrawn teenager, discovers a dazzling attraction for her mother’s new boyfriend.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ariane Louis-Seize
CAST:  Marguerite Bouchard  •  Patrick Hivon  •  Whitney Lafleur

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)

Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ariane Louis-Seize
CAST:  Sara Montpetit  •  Patrick Hivon  •  Steve Laplante  •  Sophie Cadieux

Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ariane Louis-Seize
CAST:  Sara Montpetit  •  Patrick Hivon  •  Steve Laplante  •  Sophie Cadieux

Rituels (2018)

Four friends, some wax, and pot muffins.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ariane Louis-Seize
CAST:  Alexis Leggett  •  Amaryllis Tremblay  •  Elizabeth Mageren  •  Zeneb Blanchet

Four friends, some wax, and pot muffins.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ariane Louis-Seize
CAST:  Alexis Leggett  •  Amaryllis Tremblay  •  Elizabeth Mageren  •  Zeneb Blanchet