Louise Weard

Biography

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…

Directed

1. Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps (2024) — Director
2. Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds (2025) — Director
3. Computer Hearts (2014) — Director
4. S.I.D.S. (2014) — Director
5. Chasing Rewind (2016) — Director
6. 100 Best Kills: Texas Birth Control, Dick Destruction (2022) — Director
7. The Last One (2012) — Director
8. This Is Not a Computer: The Making of Computer Hearts (2015) — Director
9. Ravine Angel: Ambition (2020) — Director
10. Castration Movie Anthology iii. Year of the Hyaena — Director
11. Castration Movie Expansion Pack i. You're Weird, But I Love You! (2026) — Director
12. Castration Movie Anthology iv. Endless September — Director
13. Castration Movie Anthology v. — Director
14. Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage (2026) — Director
15. Night School (2005) — Director
16. cortisol_inside cortisol_explosion excessive_cortisol cortisol_everywhere (2026) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Castration Movie Anthology i. Traps (2024) — Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair
2. Computer Hearts (2014) — Albert
3. S.I.D.S. (2014) — The Patient
4. 100 Best Kills: Texas Birth Control, Dick Destruction (2022) — Host
5. Chasing Rewind (2016) — Self - Narrator (voice)
6. The Estrogen Gospel (2024) — Ghost (voice)
7. Ravine Angel: Ambition (2020) — The Fool
8. This Is Not a Computer: The Making of Computer Hearts (2015) — Self
9. Castration Movie Anthology iii. Year of the Hyaena — Michaela
10. A Thousand Words (2015) — Boyfriend
11. Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage (2026) — Michaela
12. Castration Movie Expansion Pack i. You're Weird, But I Love You! (2026) — Michaela 'Traps' Sinclair
13. Castration Movie Documentary i. You Had To Be There (2026) — Herself
14. Night School (2005) — Principal
15. cortisol_inside cortisol_explosion excessive_cortisol cortisol_everywhere (2026)
16. Une Fraise (2026) — (uncredited)
17. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) — Queer Assistant
18. HUMAN ERROR