
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
7.1After 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
6.1A 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
6.1When 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
7.3One incident occurs, two families tangle. There’s nothing new under the sun.
Under the Sun
2015
6.4Sam's fear of her childhood home is brought to light when her ageing father claims there is another presence in the house.
Creswick
2017
10.0In modern day Shanghai, a wealthy housewife’s life of luxury becomes increasingly disrupted by the presence of a young ghost.
Tritch
2011
Behind the camera
7.1After 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
7.1After 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
7.1After 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
6.1A 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
6.1A 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
6.1When 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
6.1When 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
7.3One incident occurs, two families tangle. There’s nothing new under the sun.
Under the Sun
2015
6.4Sam's fear of her childhood home is brought to light when her ageing father claims there is another presence in the house.
Creswick
2017
6.4Sam's fear of her childhood home is brought to light when her ageing father claims there is another presence in the house.
Creswick
2017
6.4Sam's fear of her childhood home is brought to light when her ageing father claims there is another presence in the house.
Creswick
2017
10.0In modern day Shanghai, a wealthy housewife’s life of luxury becomes increasingly disrupted by the presence of a young ghost.
Tritch
2011
10.0In modern day Shanghai, a wealthy housewife’s life of luxury becomes increasingly disrupted by the presence of a young ghost.
Tritch
2011
5.4A young pianist confronts her fear of motherhood when she marries into a remote island community with bizarre fertility rituals.
Drum Wave
2018
5.4A young pianist confronts her fear of motherhood when she marries into a remote island community with bizarre fertility rituals.
Drum Wave
2018
NRAt 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
NRAt 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
