Ariane Louis-Seize

Ariane Louis-Seize is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec.^[1]

Career

Short films

She received critical acclaim in 2016 for her first short film, Wild Skin (La Peau sauvage), which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards^[2] and a Prix Iris nominee for Best Short Film at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards.^[3] In the same year, she was one of the writers of the screenplay for Of Ink and Blood (D'Encre et de sang).^[4]

She received further acclaim for her next short film, Little Waves (Les petites vagues), which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual Canada's Top Ten list in 2018.^[5]

Her third short film, The Depths (Les profondeurs), premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival.^[6] It was subsequently screened at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, where it won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film.^[7] She followed this up in 2020 with another short film, Shooting Star (Comme une comète).^[8] It was subsequently screened at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival, where it won the Prix Télébec,^[9] and at the Whistler Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Canadian ShortWork.^[10] The film received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021.^[11]

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

Her debut feature film, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant), entered production in 2022,^[12] and premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival in 2023.^[13] Louis-Seize won the award for Best Director in the Giornate degli Autori program.

Accolades

Louis-Seize won accolades at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, the Directors Guild of Canada, Festival du nouveau cinéma,^[14] the Venice International Film Festival,^[15] and the Windsor International Film Festival for her work on Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant).^[16]

She won the $10,000 RBC Emerging Artist Award at the Calgary International Film Festival.^[17]

In 2024, she was named the winner of the Toronto Film Critics Association's Jay Scott Prize.^[18]

With co-writer Christine Doyon, she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards,^[19] and the Prix Iris for Best Screenplay at the 26th Quebec Cinema Awards,^[20] for Humanist Vampire.

In 2024, she served as a jury member of the Compétition Cheval Noir award ceremony at the 28th Fantasia International Film Festival.^[21]