Kris Elgstrand
Kris Elgstrand is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He is most noted for his 2014 film "Songs She Wrote About People She Knows", which received several Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016; Elgstrand himself was a nominee in the Best Original Song category for the film's song "Asshole Dave".

A frequent collaborator with Dylan Akio Smith and Brad Dryborough in the Whatever Institute filmmaking collective, he was the screenwriter of Smith's films "Imetacanine", "Man. Feel. Pain.", "Galo de Barcelos: The Chicken of Portugal", "The Cabin Movie" and "Big Head", the screenwriter and co-director with Smith of "Doppelgänger Paul", and the writer of Dryborough's short film "Clean Dirt". On his own, he directed the short films "Love Seat" and "In Her Ear" before making "Songs She Wrote About People She Knows" as his solo feature debut. In 2020 he wrote the screenplay for David Milchard's comedy film "An Awkward Balance".

Elgstrand has also written a number of stage plays, including "Black Codes", "Murder Ballads", "The Boys", "Steve's New Day" and "Songs of the Sad Sack", and has been active as a musician and songwriter.

He is married to actress and designer Arabella Bushnell.
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