Ariane Louis-Seize

Ariane Louis-Seize is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. She is best known for her debut feature film Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant), which was released in 2023 and debuted at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. Many of Louis-Seize's films feature coming of age narratives or offer an exploration of girlhood, through the use of monsters and eerie forces.

Early life and education Louis-Seize is from Gatineau, Quebec. She currently works out of Montreal.

Career

Short films Louis-Seize's debut short film, Wild Skin (La Peau sauvage), which was released in 2016, follows a woman's erotic experience after discovering a python snake in her apartment. The film was a 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. In the same year, she was one of the writers of the screenplay Of Ink and Blood (D'Encre et de sang), which follows a man who, after witnessing a deadly accident, steals the victim's manuscript, claiming it as his own.

Her second short film, Little Waves (Les petites vagues), was named in the Toronto International Film Festival's annual Canada's Top Ten list in 2018, its year of release. The film follows a young girl's sexual awakening one summer. It was subsequently screened at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, where it won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film. The film chronicles a woman's journey scuba diving in a lake while grieving her mother's death.

She followed this up in 2020 with Shooting Star (Comme une comète), which explores the relationship between a teenage girl and her mother's boyfriend. It was screened at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival, where it won the Prix Télébec, and at the Whistler Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Canadian ShortWork. The film received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021.

Feature film Her debut feature film, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant), entered production in 2022, and premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival in 2023. She is also influenced by German expressionist cinema. She won the RBC Emerging Artist Award at the Calgary International Film Festival, in which she received a $10,000 prize. In 2024, she was named the winner of the Toronto Film Critics Association's Jay Scott Prize. She also won the Prix Iris for Best Screenplay at the 26th Quebec Cinema Awards.

In 2024, she served as a jury member for the Prix Cheval Noir award ceremony at the 28th Fantasia International Film Festival.

Filmography Short film

Feature film