Biography
Natalie Erika James is an American-Australian writer, director and producer, born in the USA and based in Melbourne, Australia. Her debut feature, RELIC, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in the Midnight program. RELIC stars Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote and Robyn Nevin, and is produced by Carver Films (SNOWTOWN, PARTISAN) & Nine Stories (Riva Marker, Jake Gyllenhaal), and supported by the Russo Brothers’ AGBO, Screen Australia and Film Victoria. Her 2016 short, CRESWICK, premiere...
Complete Filmography
Apartment 7A
2024
Director, Screenplay
A struggling young dancer finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected older couple promise her a shot at fame.
Relic
2020
Director, Writer
When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered ...
Drum Wave
2018
Director, Writer
A young pianist confronts her fear of motherhood when she marries into a remote island community with bizarre fertility rituals.
Creswick
2017
Director, Writer, Producer
Sam's fear of her childhood home is brought to light when her ageing father claims there is another presence in the house.
Under the Sun
2015
First Assistant Director, Producer
One incident occurs, two families tangle. There’s nothing new under the sun.
Burrow
2013
Director, Screenplay, Editor
At a prestigious Beijing university, Weichen prepares for his first sexual encounter under the pressures of inflated expectation and nightmarish anxie...
We've All Been There
2013
Third Assistant Director
Jess has to come up with $800 or lose her house. A flat tyre leaves Joan stranded in the middle of nowhere. Matt needs a job. All these stories are br...
Tritch
2011
Screenplay, Director
In modern day Shanghai, a wealthy housewife’s life of luxury becomes increasingly disrupted by the presence of a young ghost.
Saccharine
N/A
Director, Writer
Succumbing to a fringe diet fad, a lovelorn medical student eats human ashes to lose weight and finds herself terrorized by the ghost of the person sh...