Katrin Bowen is a Vancouver based director whose award-winning films include Financially Strapped, Spitting Reality, Someone, Almost Forgot My Bones  and Sandcastle.

Katrin won the 2011 Artistic Achievement Award for direction in her first feature film: Amazon Falls.  Amazon Falls won the best debut feature at the 2011 Female Eye Film Festival. Katrin directed the Gemini nominated slam poetry film Shane with Shane Koyczan that opened the 2011 Doxa Festival.

Katrin just completed her second feature the sexy and hilarious Random Acts of Romance which received Telefilm Canada funding.

Katrin is in development on two features, the semi autobiographical feature Off Course about her experiences modeling in Italy. Off Course is a suspenseful road movie set in Italy about a young model’s desperate journey to get home and the charming man who gives her a ride into his own version of hell.   Off Course has received development funding from Telefilm Canada and Blackbird a film set amidst a world of nightlife and crime, two DJs struggle with their demons, their families, their relationships… and fight to make the right choices.

Katrin is an Alumnae of the University of California at Berkeley, The Cannes Producing Intensive, Women in the Director’s Chair and the Berlinale Talent Campus.