Natalie Erika James

Directing

Natalie Erika James

Born

1990-02-23 (36)

Place of birth

USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

Natalie Erika James (born 23 February 1990) is an American-Australian writer-director, born in the US and raised in Melbourne. 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. Her debut feature, the psychological horror film Relic, starring Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote and Robyn Nevin, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in the Midnight program.

Known for

Behind the camera

Saccharine poster
7.1

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

2026

Saccharine poster
7.1

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

2026

Saccharine poster
7.1

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

2026

Apartment 7A poster
6.1

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

2024

Apartment 7A poster
6.1

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

2024

Relic poster
6.1

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

2020

Relic poster
6.1

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

2020

Under the Sun poster
7.3

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

Under the Sun

2015

Creswick poster
6.4

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

Creswick

2017

Creswick poster
6.4

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

Creswick

2017

Creswick poster
6.4

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

Creswick

2017

Tritch poster
10.0

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

Tritch

2011

Tritch poster
10.0

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

Tritch

2011

Drum Wave poster
5.4

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

Drum Wave

2018

Drum Wave poster
5.4

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

Drum Wave

2018

Burrow poster
NR

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

2013

Burrow poster
NR

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

2013