
Natalie Erika James
Directing
Biography
Natalie Erika James is an American-Australian writer, director and producer, born in the USA and based in Melbourne, Australia. Her debut feature, RELIC, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in the Midnight program. RELIC stars Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote and Robyn Nevin, and is produced by Carver Films (SNOWTOWN, PARTISAN) & Nine Stories (Riva Marker, Jake Gyllenhaal), and supported by the Russo Brothers’ AGBO, Screen Australia and Film Victoria. Her 2016 short, CRESWICK, premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival, and was awarded the 2017 AWGIE Award for Best Short Form screenplay by the Australian Writer’s Guild.
Known For

After succumbing to an obscure weight-loss craze involving the eating of human ashes, lovelorn medical student Hana finds herself haunted by the ghost of the person she's eating.
Saccharine

A struggling young dancer finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected older couple promise her a shot at fame.
Apartment 7A

When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.
Relic

Sam's fear of her childhood home is brought to light when her ageing father claims there is another presence in the house.
Creswick

One incident occurs, two families tangle. There’s nothing new under the sun.
Under the Sun

Jess has to come up with $800 or lose her house. A flat tyre leaves Joan stranded in the middle of nowhere. Matt needs a job. All these stories are brought together as what goes around comes around and they impact each other in a way they couldn't imagine.
We've All Been There

A young pianist confronts her fear of motherhood when she marries into a remote island community with bizarre fertility rituals.
Drum Wave

At a prestigious Beijing university, Weichen prepares for his first sexual encounter under the pressures of inflated expectation and nightmarish anxieties surrounding his mother. Set within the world of the post-'90s generation of Chinese youth, BURROW is a dark coming-of-age story about the paralyzing nature of self-doubt about the primal responses we have to our fear of failure.
Burrow

In modern day Shanghai, a wealthy housewife’s life of luxury becomes increasingly disrupted by the presence of a young ghost.