Dionne Copland
Directing
Biography
Dionne Copland is the Writer and Director of the award-winning short films Inferno and Haxx Deadroom and the feature film Cold Wind Blowing. While they pursued their degree in Film Production, Inferno screened around the world at over twenty film festivals and earned awards for “Best Short Film” and “Best Filmmaker.” Their debut feature film, Cold Wind Blowing, won them the “Best Director Award” at the Genreblast Film Festival and screened at the Women in Horror Film Festival and Salem Horror Fest before its limited theatrical run and home video release in March 2022. Dionne spends most of their time writing, sitting with an idea and allowing the characters to take them through it until they claw their way out. Their time spent with a character before they go out into the world is so intimate and collaborating on set to see them fully realized is even more rewarding as directing is where Dionne truly shines.
Known For
Izzy seeks out everything in her power to stop her partner from transitioning. Meanwhile, Michaela tries her best to be a good person.
Castration Movie Anthology iii. Year of the Hyaena
An abridged version of Castration Movie Anthology iii.
Castration Movie Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage
A lonely man is taken hostage by an exotic dancer and her two friends, who plan to use him as their fall guy after stealing drugs from their sadistic boss.
Riding Shotgun
When a group of young friends take a trip to a remote mountain to get away from their families for Christmas, their stress-free getaway turns into a nightmare. Trapped in a cabin by a supernatural creature, their fight for survival puts their fracturing relationships to the test as it becomes increasingly clear that all of them won’t be surviving the holidays.
Cold Wind Blowing
After an unexpected pregnancy The Patient is terrified at the prospect of fatherhood, and after being denied an orchiectomy by their doctor they seek to have the surgery performed illegally at a seedy motel.
S.I.D.S.
Albert's stable relationship with his fiancé is jeopardized when he becomes obsessed with a computer simulation.
Computer Hearts
INFERNO is a sexy neon-soaked wonderland of perversion, playfulness and girl power. Set in a strip club in the 1990s, nervous dancer Bambi meets Jason and his partying friends in an encounter that will change their lives forever.
Dionne Copland's Inferno
Lucy brings her girlfriend Linda to an underground internet forum meet-up. The evening does not go as planned.
Haxx Deadroom
A teenager who wants to have some "real experiences" runs away from home and finds herself taken under the wing of two cool girls.
Softcore
An annoyed theatre goer takes revenge on the texting couple seated in front of him.
Don't Look Down
The Fool performs a Magickal Work in hopes of cosmic suicide.
Ravine Angel: Ambition
An interview with Z-movie director Vince D’Amato (director of Carmilla, the Lesbian Vampire aka Vampires vs Zombies) serves as an opportunity for a nostalgic reflection on video stores, on how the landscape of the home video world has changed, and on the importance it had in shaping the imagery of the underground scene.
Chasing Rewind
In a grim motel room, in an endless night, a lonely young woman fights to find her way back home even as the mysterious wound in her side pulls her deeper and deeper into crisis.
Woundworld
Two short trailers which are a pastiche of the 80s slasher genre. HTKP is about a house which is possessing its inhabitants to kill, and Hide is about a killer terrorizing a group of volunteers at a campground.
House That Kills People/Hide
A documentary which examines the making of Computer Hearts and the perils of no-budget student film making.
This Is Not a Computer: The Making of Computer Hearts
A short film by Dionne Copland.