Laura Wagner is an award-winning producer who began her career in the New York Theatre and transitioned into filmmaking when she discovered her passion for making thought-provoking, character-driven films across genres. She is a recipient of the 2024 Dear Producer Award and the 2004 John Cassavetes Spirit Award for the film, Fremont.

She received the Sundance Institute’s Creative Producing Lab and Fellowship, and SFFILM’s Rainin Grant and Fellowship. Her films have screened at over 100 film festivals including Sundance, SFFILM, Tribeca, SXSW, and Rotterdam, and have enjoyed success worldwide in theaters, on television and on digital streaming platforms. Her produced work includes Fremont (Sundance 2023), What the Hands Do (Camden IFF 2023), The Scale of Hope (Patagonia 2022), Logic Paralyzes the Heart (Venice Biennale 2022), Artifishal (Tribeca 2019), Tracktown (LAFF 2016), My First Kiss and the People Involved (LAFF 2016), and It Felt Like Love (Sundance and Rotterdam 2013)

She co-founded the SF Bay Area film collective, Cinemama, which has grown to include over 500 members. She is a Film Independent fellow, and an alum of the Rotterdam Producing Lab, the Cannes Producers Network Fellowship, the Trans Atlantic Partners program, and Berlinale Talents.

She is a member of Producers Unite and the Documentary Producers Alliance, and has served on film festival juries including the San Francisco International Film Festival and New York No Limits.