Ariane Louis-Seize

Ariane Louis-Seize is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec.

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 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 for Of Ink and Blood (D'Encre et de sang).

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.

Her third 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 this up in 2020 with another short film, Shooting Star (Comme une comète). It was subsequently 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.

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, and premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival in 2023. Louis-Seize won the award for Best Director in the Giornate degli Autori program.

Awards
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 Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant).

In 2024 she was named the winner of the Toronto Film Critics Association's Jay Scott Prize.

With co-writer Christine Doyon, she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024, for Humanist Vampire.