Louise Weard
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 4, 1994
- Birthplace
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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.
Filmography
Castration Movie Anthology v. TBA
Director, Producer, Editor, Camera Operator, Story
Riding Shotgun TBA
Producer
Tell Me I’m Worthless TBA
Producer
- Woundworld
Woundworld TBA
Director of Photography
Castration Movie Part 4: Endless September TBA
as Michaela, Director, Producer, Story, Editor, Camera Operator
- Rough on Rats
Rough on Rats TBA
Actor
HUMAN ERROR TBA
as Louise
Castration Movie ⅗ Year of the Hyaena 2026
as Michaela, Director, Producer, Editor, Camera Operator, Story, Sound Recordist
ee 2026
Executive Producer
Platypus 2026
Lighting Technician
Castration Movie Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage 2026
as Michaela, Director, Producer, Editor, Story, Sound Recordist, "A" Camera Operator
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma 2026
as Queer Assistant, Thanks
Horrorgirl Mixtape 2026
as Self (archive footage)
Castration Movie World Tour Anthology ii. The Best of Both a Question and a Comment 2026
as Herself, Producer, Cinematography
CAMP 2026
Thanks
Une Fraise 2026
as (uncredited)
The Serpent's Skin 2026
Producer, Thanks
Castration Movie Documentary Anthology i. You Had To Be There 2026
as Herself, Producer, Camera Operator
Castration Movie Expansion Pack i. You're Weird, But I Love You! 2026
as Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair, Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Story, Editor, Sound Recordist, Camera Operator
Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds 2025
Director, Editor, Producer, "A" Camera Operator, Story, Sound Recordist, Executive Producer
Castration Movie Anthology I. Traps 2024
as Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair, Producer, Editor, Director, Story, Executive Producer, Sound Recordist, Camera Operator
The Estrogen Gospel 2024
as Ghost (voice)
Chirophobia 2023
Sound Editor
100 Best Kills: Texas Birth Control, Dick Destruction 2022
as Host, Director
Cold Wind Blowing 2022
Sound Editor, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
- W.F.L.T.
W.F.L.T. 2021
Director of Photography
Ravine Angel: Ambition 2020
as The Fool, Writer, Director, Director of Photography
Cuties 2020
Producer, Director of Photography
Softcore 2017
Director of Photography, Editor
Haxx Deadroom 2017
Director of Photography, Sound Editor, Editor, Producer, Story
Dionne Copland's Inferno 2016
Editor, Director of Photography
- Chasing Rewind
Chasing Rewind 2016
as Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Editor
A Thousand Words 2015
as Boyfriend, Associate Producer, Editor, Cinematography
Don't Look Down 2015
Producer, Cinematography, Editor
Gutterballs 2: Balls Deep 2015
Director of Photography
- This Is Not a Computer: The Making of Computer Hearts
This Is Not a Computer: The Making of Computer Hearts 2015
as Self, Director, Editor
S.I.D.S. 2014
as The Patient, Sound Designer, Writer, Director, Editor, Original Music Composer, Production Design
House That Kills People/Hide 2014
Associate Producer, Cinematography, Editor
Computer Hearts 2014
as Albert, Editor, Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer
- The Last One
The Last One 2012
Director
Night School 2005
as Principal, Director, Writer, Editor, Camera Operator
Credits from TMDB.