Olivia Loccisano is a filmmaker and screenwriter who works within magical realism, horror, and dark fantasy. Her narratives focus on women and girls in the margins of society, exploring how they use their own imagination and rituals to navigate an often unwelcoming world.

Her stop-motion short film POCKET PRINCESS (2024) won Best Animated Short Film at GenreBlast, the largest genre film festival in the Washington, D.C. region. The film played at festivals including Fantaspoa and Boston Underground, and screened at the Krupa Art Foundation in Wrocław in collaboration with the Oscar® Qualifying Film Festival, Animator. 

Olivia’s debut short, FIRST BLOOD (2023), premiered at Fantasia, Chicago International Film Festival and Blood in the Snow, among others, and received critical acclaim for its portrayal of menstruation and vampirism. The film was developed from her script SIMONE (2022) which won Best Short Screenplay at the Renegade Film Festival.

Loccisano is the co-writer of DEVOUR, a feature film in development that has received funding from Telefilm, directed by Erica Orofino and produced by Wilding Pictures.

Olivia has also earned recognition for her short script BODY AND BLOOD (2022), which received accolades that placed it on Coverfly’s Red List, where it remains one of the platform’s highest-ranked screenplays of all time.

Her work has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA), Ontario Arts Council (OAC), Toronto Arts Council (TAC), and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

Alma mater: Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A): Screenwriting, York University