Kristina Wagenbauer

{{Short description|Canadian film director and screenwriter}}

Kristina Wagenbauer is a Canadian film director and screenwriter based in Montreal, Quebec. She is most noted for her 2017 feature film Sashinka, for which she was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Casting at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019,[https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1173267/gala-quebec-cinema-iris-soiree-gagnants-2019 "1991, de Ricardo Trogi, sacré meilleur film au Gala Québec Cinéma"]. Ici Radio-Canada, June 2, 2019. and her 2021 short film Babushka, which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.Brent Furdyk, [https://web.archive.org/web/20220215130202/https://etcanada.com/news/867531/2022-canadian-screen-awards-nominees-announced/ "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack"]. ET Canada, February 15, 2022.

In 2018, she was one of eight women filmmakers selected for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Apprenticeship for Women Directors program, alongside Kathleen Hepburn, Tiffany Hsiung, Alicia K. Harris, Allison White, Asia Youngman, Halima Ouardiri, and Kirsten Carthew.Lauren Malyk, [https://playbackonline.ca/2018/08/20/canadian-academy-selects-eight-for-second-annual-mentorship-program/ "Canadian Academy selects eight for second annual mentorship program"]. Playback, August 20, 2018.