Noah Berc

I’m a queer filmmaker, writer, and performer from Burlington, Ontario, and a proud member of the Deninu Kųę́ First Nation under Treaty 8. I tell stories that live in the overlap between horror and humour. I got my start in front of the camera as an actor, working in film, TV, and commercials as a member of ACTRA. That experience taught me how to work on set, which eventually led me to directing. My work now is where an actor’s intuition a filmmaker’s obsession with the awkward and the eerie. I’m deeply drawn to both the unruliness of horror and the formal risk-taking of arthouse cinema, and I try to pull from both traditions to create something strange, intimate, and unsettling. Pimple Patch marks my directorial debut, and it’s very much a first film in the best way: personal, scrappy, and proudly rough around the edges. It wears its grindhouse influences on its sleeve. It's messy, visceral, stitched together with love. I draw from queer theory, Indigenous storytelling, and the guts of genre filmmaking to create stories that are as provocative as they are hilarious. I'm currently at Queen’s University to pursue an MA in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies, where I’ll keep exploring the weird and tender intersections of queerness, horror, and identity on screen. I make work for the freaks, the feelers, and anyone who’s ever had a panic attack in a public washroom.