Biography

Selene Kapsaski is a writer, film director, and actress living in Manchester, England. Selene is the director of the cult Horror Musical Spidarlings (2016) released by Troma Entertainment and the upcoming Sci-Fi Film The Moon Is a Hologram.

Selene is the director and a co-creator of the US TV show London Calling (2015) presented by Jeff Kristian. She directed the award winning short film My Head Hurts (2000) as well as several music videos and theatre plays. Selene directed the documentary Laganja's Dance School (2019) featuring RuPaul's Drag Race star Laganja Estranja. Selene also directed a segment for the erotic film anthology Films Confiscated from a French Brothel (2021).

Selene's debut novella 'Nazi Sniper' was published in 2015 by Sleazy Viking Press. She wrote the supernatural horror novel Sisters of Manchester (2021) with pulp author Jeff O'Brien and the mystery thriller To Hell or High Water (2025) with Beth Warburton.

Selene studied Film at the New York Film School, Athens and Sound Engineering at the City of Westminster College. She worked as a production assistant on Dario Argento's Giallo (2009). For several years Selene worked and toured with the theatre ensemble Act Provocateur International. Previous directorial works in theatre include staging 'That Abortion Play' by controversial playwright Greg Moulder (T-Decadence). Selene has also occasionally acted in plays including portraying the role of Ian Brady in an adaptation of Fassbinder's 'Pre-Paradise Sorry Now' (2006). Her writing has appeared in Art Decades, Weng's Chop, Black Giraffe Quarterly (Dynatox Ministries), Mass Movement Magazine, TransLiving Magazine, Scene4 Magazine and Filmrage. Selene also edited and published a xerox-zine called In Punk We Trust Inc.

Selene Kapsaski publicly came out as a trans woman in 2019.
- IMDb mini biography by: xtro

I have always hated films with an overly reactionary or moralist attitude.

Although I started in theatre I believe that my approach to directing is more visual. With Spidarlings I wanted to achieve an almost cartoony and artificial look and feel.

[on Jesús Franco] Very few artists have played such a big part in my life as Jess Franco. There is so much more to his work than just sleaze. Franco's films are full of light, aesthetic, sensuality, humor and passion. His name should be all the way up there with the cinematic greats like Bunuel and Tarkovsky.