Louise Marie Cooke

Louise is a writer, director and producer with a passion for stories featuring strong but complicated female characters that feature at the centre of the narrative, something she feels is lacking in mainstream cinema. Her films have screened across the world at International Film Festivals such as Frameline, Mix Festival Brasil and Brooklyn Girl Film Festival. Her last two shorts, Siren and First Bite have also been shown at the highly regarded London Short Film Festival and Underwire Festival which champions female cast and crew. Louise studied at the Northern Media School, graduating in 2009 with a Masters in Film Production & Screenwriting. She began working as a producer on independent short films and promos, producing the award winning Film London short Physical Education (dir. Rohan Green, 2010). The film was was mentored by Dreams of a Life and The Falling producer Cairo Cannon. During this time Louise established Dead Flower Productions to promote female talent in front and behind the camera. The following year she pitched to the North London Film Partnership and Film London a coming of age film with a twist. Louise continued to write strong complicated female characters and in November 2012 she began writing and crowdfunding her follow up film which became Siren. The film has since screened in the UK, USA, Canada, Portugal and Brazil at numerous festivals including the renowned Frameline: San Francisco LGBT Film Festival. Siren was accepted into the British Film Council’s Shorts Scheme and Louise was funded to attend the USA premier in San Francisco in May 2015.