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Ariane Louis-Seize

Ariane Louis-Seize

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Biography

Ariane Louis-Seize is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. Her debut feature film, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant) premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival in 2023. Louis-Seize won awards at the Calgary International Film Festival, the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, the Directors Guild of Canada, Festival du nouveau cinéma, the Venice International Film Festival, and the Windsor International Film Festival for her work on the film. She is also known for her short films Wild Skin (La Peau sauvage), which was a Canadian Screen Award 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, and Little Waves (Les petites vagues), which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual Canada's Top Ten list in 2018. Her short film The Depths (Les profondeurs) premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. It was subsequently screened at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, where it won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film. She followed up in 2020 with Shooting Star (Comme une comète). In 2024, Louis-Seize was named the winner of the Jay Scott Prize, an award presented by the Toronto Film Critics Association to an emerging talent in the Canadian film industry

Known For

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
7.4

Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul's last wishes before day breaks.

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

2023
Of Ink and Blood
N/A

Sébastien owns a book shop and has literary ambitions of his own. He befriends Joseph, an established novelist whose work he admires. But when Joseph is killed on his doorstep, Sébastien discovers a mysterious manuscript left behind. Sasha, Sébastien’s only child, witnesses Joseph’s death, and the effects run deep. She finds herself drawn to the author’s son Sidney, and starts a relationship with him. As the two grow closer, she discovers that her father is hiding something. Sidney, feeling betrayed by Sasha, threatens to expose Sébastien to get justice for his father’s memory. But his relentless pursuit for the truth leads him to uncover a tragic family secret from which he was protected… until now.

Of Ink and Blood

2016
Shooting Star
4.8

On a family trip to observe the shooting stars, Chloé, a withdrawn teenager, discovers a dazzling attraction for her mother’s new boyfriend.

Shooting Star

2020
The Depths
6.0

Looking for solace while staying in her late mother’s cottage, a young woman instead finds her old scuba gear — a fateful discovery that leads to more watery revelations, in this spellbinding and visually ravishing drama.

The Depths

2019
Skyline
N/A

A man tormented by old age reluctantly accepts to abandon the last remaining tie to his youth: his motorcycle.

Skyline

2013
Lorraine Pintal - So The Light Never Dies
N/A

Directed by Ariane Louis-Seize, this tribute film was created as a gift for Lorraine Pintal, director of Montreal’s Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. Featuring some of the most memorable characters and performers of Pintal’s career, the film’s succession of surreal scenes from different dramatic worlds introduces viewers to the exceptional woman of theatre, stage director, and friend whom they consider to be the “ghost light” of Quebec theatre.

Lorraine Pintal - So The Light Never Dies

2019
Wild Skin
6.3

A woman finds a baby python in her apartment and has a strange connection with it. Together, both snake and woman begin a transformation into something new.

Wild Skin

2016
Rituels
N/A

Four friends, some wax, and pot muffins.

Rituels

2018
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N/A

Joanne finds a way to be another woman - and so do all the others.

Être elles

2016
See You in My Dreams
N/A

Ariane's grandmother often visits her in her dreams. Together, they wander through unknown nocturnal landscapes. In this dreamlike short film, where the border between memories and imagination is blurry, Ariane raises the possibility that the seal between life and death is more porous than we think.

See You in My Dreams

2022
Little Waves
5.5

After witnessing her cousin enveloped in a steamy new romance, distraught teenage Amélie allows herself to dive into her own fantasies, sparking something much more powerful.

Little Waves

2018