Louise Weard is a filmmaker of many hats with a degree in Film Semiotics. Hailing from Western Canada, she emerged in the underground horror community with her breakout body-horror featurette Computer Hearts and established CyberCraft Video with her filmmaking partner, Dionne Copland, in 2016. She has been obsessed with deeply personal 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 transgender woman seeking a back alley surgery. In 2016 she produced the micro-budget queer horror feature Cuties followed by the drama Cold Wind Blowing, which released in March of 2022. You can find more of her work in Vancouver's Transgender Expressions Haven Art Gallery and the upcoming book Divergent Terror: The Crossroads of Queerness and Horror.