Louise Weard

Turner Stewart is the Producer and Director behind the award-winning films Computer Hearts and S.I.D.S., the latter of which has screened at film festivals across the globe and netted Turner awards for his “Fearless Performance” and for “Rookie Filmmaker of the Year.” Working closely with his partner Dionne Copland, he has served as the Producer and Director of Photography on several of her projects, including her 2016 short Inferno. As a Producer, he has worked with several emerging filmmakers on award-winning short films in Vancouver, and has acted as the Director of Photography on several independent features, including Ryan Nicholson’s latest films. His featurette Computer Hearts found critical success within the underground horror scene, and was self-distributed world-wide on home video through CyberCraft Video and several independent Video-on-Demand platforms. He is a former board member of Vancouver’s Shivers Film Society and the former President of the UBC Film Society, and in both positions he worked towards the theatrical exhibition and promotion of independent Canadian genre cinema in Vancouver, Canada, collaborating with institutions such as Telefilm Canada and the Vancouver International Film Festival to bring contemporary Canadian cinema to the University of British Columbia campus. As Producer, he is currently overseeing the post-production on Joshua Gratton's feature-length directorial debut Cuties, and is working with Dionne Copland to Producer her first feature-length film.