Ingrid Veninger

Nacimiento : 1968-08-21, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Historia

Born in Bratislava and raised in Canada, Ingrid formed pUNK Films in 2003 with a ‘nothing is impossible’ manifesto. Since 2008, Ingrid has written/directed 5 features (Only, Modra, i am a good person/i am a bad person, The Animal Project, He Hated Pigeons) all of which have premiered at international festivals including: TIFF, Rotterdam, Slamdance, Whistler, Rome, OUTFest, FEMCine and MoMA, garnering awards and distribution worldwide. In 2014, Ingrid initiated the pUNK Films FEMMES LAB to foster feature films written and directed by Canadian women, sponsored by Academy Award winning actor Melissa Leo. Currently, Ingrid is a part-time member of the Film Studies Faculty at York University, Screenwriter-in- Residence at the University of Toronto, and Film Mentor at the Canadian Film Centre. Recently she completed her 6th feature PORCUPINE LAKE, produced with the financial participation of Telefilm Canada and Bell Media’s Harold Greenberg Fund with distribution in Canada by FILMS WE LIKE and world sales by OUTPLAY FILMS.

Películas

Wish
Director
In this intimate and achingly beautiful portrait of a mother and daughter, we share the milestone of Laska's 1st birthday with crocheted crowns and blueberry muffins. A story about family, motherhood, courage and the resilience people find during the most challenging times.
ONE NINE
Director
During the COVID-19 pandemic, nine filmmakers isolating in different parts of the world join to make a film. A 9-chapter anthology, this collection created by women filmmakers from South Africa, Germany, Spain, China, United States, and across Canada. ONE(NINE) is a timeless multiversal experience of what it means to find connection in a time of isolation, orchestrated by one of Canada's most fierce and prolific indie filmmakers, Ingrid Veniger.
BRUTALISM
Woman on the PA
In an alternative universe, before the final improv performance, an awkward college student must convince his partner to follow his script, or else he would fail the year.
El Mundo O Nada
Director
Two Cuban brothers hope to make it big with their music videos - and make their family at home proud of them.
The Other Side of Porcupine Lake
Herself
The Other Side of Porcupine Lake follows Ingrid Veninger as she makes her sixth feature film, Porcupine Lake. From writing and casting through production and post, this documentary utilizes an observational style to reveal the intimate process of making an original female-driven feature film
The Other Side of Porcupine Lake
Producer
The Other Side of Porcupine Lake follows Ingrid Veninger as she makes her sixth feature film, Porcupine Lake. From writing and casting through production and post, this documentary utilizes an observational style to reveal the intimate process of making an original female-driven feature film
Porcupine Lake
Production Design
During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world of girls.
Porcupine Lake
Producer
During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world of girls.
Porcupine Lake
Writer
During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world of girls.
Porcupine Lake
Director
During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world of girls.
Head Space
Producer
Head Space is a hilarious and heartwarming film about Floyd (Struan Sutherland), an agoraphobic with no intention of ever leaving his basement. His past as a taller-than-average comedian and TV pitch-man has left him broken and unable to face his demons. That is until he finds himself both summoned for jury duty and under the constant harassment of the pizza delivery guy (Stoo Metz). With no other option, Floyd must confront his past, make friends with his enemies, and battle the great big scary unknown that is the outside world.
He Hated Pigeons
Traveler
Love is everything with a young man journey's from the north to south of Chile to fulfill a promise. A wistful road trip through the grieving process of a recently bereaved gay young man. Love is everything when a young man journeys from the north to the south of Chile to fulfil a promise. Being the film takes place in Chile and the partner was not only a foreigner (Canadian) and gay it echoes the past history of Chile’s many ‘disappeared’ and how ,as a person or country, one can deal with loss when no one really seems to know or want to admit what happened.
He Hated Pigeons
Writer
Love is everything with a young man journey's from the north to south of Chile to fulfill a promise. A wistful road trip through the grieving process of a recently bereaved gay young man. Love is everything when a young man journeys from the north to the south of Chile to fulfil a promise. Being the film takes place in Chile and the partner was not only a foreigner (Canadian) and gay it echoes the past history of Chile’s many ‘disappeared’ and how ,as a person or country, one can deal with loss when no one really seems to know or want to admit what happened.
He Hated Pigeons
Director
Love is everything with a young man journey's from the north to south of Chile to fulfill a promise. A wistful road trip through the grieving process of a recently bereaved gay young man. Love is everything when a young man journeys from the north to the south of Chile to fulfil a promise. Being the film takes place in Chile and the partner was not only a foreigner (Canadian) and gay it echoes the past history of Chile’s many ‘disappeared’ and how ,as a person or country, one can deal with loss when no one really seems to know or want to admit what happened.
The Animal Project
Screenplay
As a thirty something acting teacher attempts to push a group of eager young performers out of their comfort zones, he struggles with his own ability to live an authentic and fulfilling life with his teenage son.
The Animal Project
Director
As a thirty something acting teacher attempts to push a group of eager young performers out of their comfort zones, he struggles with his own ability to live an authentic and fulfilling life with his teenage son.
The End of Time
Producer
Working at the limits of what can easily be expressed, filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again turns his camera to filming the unfilmable. From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to lava flows in Hawaii which have overwhelmed all but one home on the south side of Big Island; from the disintegration of inner-city Detroit, to a Hindu funeral rite near the place of Buddha's enlightenment, Mettler explores our perception of time. He dares to dream the movie of the future while also immersing us in the wonder of the everyday. THE END OF TIME, at once personal, rigorous and visionary, Peter Mettler has crafted a film as compelling and magnificent as its subject.
I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person
When a mother and daughter tour film festivals in Europe and decide to part ways, they must confront life-changing choices alone, before returning home.
I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person
Screenplay
When a mother and daughter tour film festivals in Europe and decide to part ways, they must confront life-changing choices alone, before returning home.
I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person
Director
When a mother and daughter tour film festivals in Europe and decide to part ways, they must confront life-changing choices alone, before returning home.
Solace in the Dark
Self
A retrospective documentary on 9/11 in connection with the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival.
Headshots
Director
Headshots is a film-within-a-film directed in-character by Ingrid Veninger as Ruby White. Taken from Veninger's third feature, i am a good person / i am a bad person.
Modra
Director
The film follows two teenagers from Toronto, Canada (Lena and Leco) who travel to Slovakia. The film shows the interactions between the two and the locals including Lena's relatives.
Modra
Writer
The film follows two teenagers from Toronto, Canada (Lena and Leco) who travel to Slovakia. The film shows the interactions between the two and the locals including Lena's relatives.
Nurse.Fighter.Boy
Producer
An urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child.
Nurse.Fighter.Boy
Writer
An urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child.
Only
Director
Tells the story of one day shared between a young boy and girl.
Only
Tells the story of one day shared between a young boy and girl.
Hotel Vladivostok
Producer
In a hotel overlooking the Sea of Japan, six disparate stories inter-connect giving time a shape, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. Murder, sacrifice, betrayal, longing and regret weave into a tapestry of souls remembering and forgetting.
Hotel Vladivostok
Director
In a hotel overlooking the Sea of Japan, six disparate stories inter-connect giving time a shape, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. Murder, sacrifice, betrayal, longing and regret weave into a tapestry of souls remembering and forgetting.
Hotel Vladivostok
Wife
In a hotel overlooking the Sea of Japan, six disparate stories inter-connect giving time a shape, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. Murder, sacrifice, betrayal, longing and regret weave into a tapestry of souls remembering and forgetting.
Everything is Love and Fear
Writer
A woman and man have an affair in a hotel room in Vladivostok and conceive a child. After many years, they meet again and remember their night together.
Everything is Love and Fear
A woman and man have an affair in a hotel room in Vladivostok and conceive a child. After many years, they meet again and remember their night together.
Everything is Love and Fear
Director
A woman and man have an affair in a hotel room in Vladivostok and conceive a child. After many years, they meet again and remember their night together.
Mama
Producer
A young mother tries to reclaim her son by tap dancing in the streets of Vladivostok, Russia.
Mama
Director
A young mother tries to reclaim her son by tap dancing in the streets of Vladivostok, Russia.
Mama
A young mother tries to reclaim her son by tap dancing in the streets of Vladivostok, Russia.
The Limb Salesman
Writer
Gabriel Goode is The Limb Salesman-- a disgraced doctor who regenerates limbs on the black market. When Goode travels to the water mining regions of the north to heal the cherished daughter of a wealthy water miner, dark family secrets are revealed, and Goode is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice. A story of forbidden love in a dystopian future.
The Limb Salesman
Producer
Gabriel Goode is The Limb Salesman-- a disgraced doctor who regenerates limbs on the black market. When Goode travels to the water mining regions of the north to heal the cherished daughter of a wealthy water miner, dark family secrets are revealed, and Goode is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice. A story of forbidden love in a dystopian future.
The Limb Salesman
Clara
Gabriel Goode is The Limb Salesman-- a disgraced doctor who regenerates limbs on the black market. When Goode travels to the water mining regions of the north to heal the cherished daughter of a wealthy water miner, dark family secrets are revealed, and Goode is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice. A story of forbidden love in a dystopian future.
El enviado
Mrs. Farr
Paul y Jessie Duncan (Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romjin-Stamos) han perdido a Adam (Cameron Bright), su hijo de ocho años, en un trágico accidente. Durante los preparativos del entierro, el doctor Richard Wells (Robert De Niro) les hace una propuesta increíble: clonar a su hijo para devolverlo a la vida. El matrimonio acepta, a pesar de los obvios inconvenientes legales, éticos y morales que se les plantean en este fáustico pacto con el doctor Wells. El secretismo que se les exige es insignificante comparado con el hecho de que su hijo tenga otra vez la oportunidad de vivir. La pareja debe entonces trasladarse a Riverton, donde Adam será clonado en la impresionante clínica de fertilidad de Wells.
The Bunny Project
Producer
Can an eight-year-old boy dressed as a bunny change the world? He thinks he can.
The Bunny Project
Writer
Can an eight-year-old boy dressed as a bunny change the world? He thinks he can.
The Bunny Project
Director
Can an eight-year-old boy dressed as a bunny change the world? He thinks he can.
Urda/Bone
Cinematography
Against the backdrop of a European cityscape, worlds intersect when a woman and a man on separate travels meet, or rather, collide on the screen. Their affects mingle, creating a zone between their bodies in which something happens: intoxication, stillness, desire and love. Something that is neither one nor the other's, but a third creation between dreaming and being awake, where possibilities are held and lost. This is URDA / BONE.
Urda/Bone
Producer
Against the backdrop of a European cityscape, worlds intersect when a woman and a man on separate travels meet, or rather, collide on the screen. Their affects mingle, creating a zone between their bodies in which something happens: intoxication, stillness, desire and love. Something that is neither one nor the other's, but a third creation between dreaming and being awake, where possibilities are held and lost. This is URDA / BONE.
Urda/Bone
Writer
Against the backdrop of a European cityscape, worlds intersect when a woman and a man on separate travels meet, or rather, collide on the screen. Their affects mingle, creating a zone between their bodies in which something happens: intoxication, stillness, desire and love. Something that is neither one nor the other's, but a third creation between dreaming and being awake, where possibilities are held and lost. This is URDA / BONE.
Urda/Bone
Director
Against the backdrop of a European cityscape, worlds intersect when a woman and a man on separate travels meet, or rather, collide on the screen. Their affects mingle, creating a zone between their bodies in which something happens: intoxication, stillness, desire and love. Something that is neither one nor the other's, but a third creation between dreaming and being awake, where possibilities are held and lost. This is URDA / BONE.
Urda/Bone
Against the backdrop of a European cityscape, worlds intersect when a woman and a man on separate travels meet, or rather, collide on the screen. Their affects mingle, creating a zone between their bodies in which something happens: intoxication, stillness, desire and love. Something that is neither one nor the other's, but a third creation between dreaming and being awake, where possibilities are held and lost. This is URDA / BONE.
Out of the Ashes
Zozia
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Gisella Perl (Christine Lahti), una judía húngara, deja su pueblo para iniciar una prometedora carrera como ginecóloga; pero sus proyectos se frustran cuando los nazis la deportan a Auschwitz. Después de sobrevivir a esa pesadilla, Gisella consigue la ciudadanía americana, pero los jueces estadounidenses la acusan de haber sido ayudante del doctor Mengele en los campos de exterminio. Tendrá entonces que revivir sus horribles experiencias para explicar la difícil decisión moral que, durante años, la mantuvo con vida en Auschwitz. (FILMAFFINITY)
Gambling, Gods and LSD
Producer
Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker's mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and sounds, reflecting the fragmented but alluring worlds it attempts to capture.
On Their Knees
Mo Walker
Willie and Mo are half sisters who have never seen eye to eye. A cross-country road trip in an ice cream truck carrying their dead grandmother may not change that, but it will give them the opportunity to laugh and learn.
Walter and Henry
Intern Doctor
Walter and his 12-year-old son Henry are a pair of New York City street musicians living at poverty level in an empty Brooklyn lot. When Walter has a nervous breakdown, it's up to Henry to find his father's long-lost family, including the grandfather and aunt he's never met.
Wild Iris
Woman in Line at the Mall
A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.
Steal This Movie
Narra la vida de Abbie Hoffman, un activista americano de los años sesenta y setenta, y uno de los "fundadores" del movimiento hippy.
Nunca te olvides de mi
Ginny
Diane McGowin, una mujer de cuarenta años, cuando se dispone a dejar la oficina sufre un repentino lapsus de memoria. No sabe donde se encuentra y lo olvida todo. Con cierta dificualtad, consigue llegar a su casa donde le espera su familia para celebrar el cumpleaños de su marido. Durante la fiesta sufre un desmayo. Cuando va al médico le diagnostican un alzheimer prematuro. Tras sufrir una depresión profunda y ocultar su enfermedad a los suyos, reacciona, y entra en contacto con otros enfermos en su situación plantando cara a la enfermedad.
The Life Before This
Stage Manager
Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Graduate student on subway
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
H
Kathleen
A junkie couple board themselves in their apartment while they try to kick their heroin habit.
Destiny To Order
Biker Chick
A writer starts running into the characters he's created in real life. Alberta is his fantasy woman, who starts out as a sexy rock singer. However, when the bad guy in his novel (played by Michael Ironside) gets his hands on the manuscript and starts making changes of his own, they are all in for a wild ride.
Sing
Una película para adolescentes sobre un punk italiano obligado a trabajar con una inocente niña judía.
La Puerta
Paula
La puerta por la que el Señor de los Demonios hace su entrada, en su afán de conquistar, resulta ser un agujero en el propio patio de la casa de Glen, situada en las afueras, donde está celebrando una fiesta con sus amigos. Movidos por una fuerza de la que son ignorantes, Terry y Glen abren este pasadizo, y si no quieren que la infernal pesadilla que les acosa se convierta en una realidad eterna, deberán encontrar la manera de volver a cerrar la puerta...
The War Boy
Helena
The 12-year-old son of a freedom fighter grows up fast in World War II Yugoslavia.
Hockey Night
Evelyn
When a young girl wants to join her high school's hockey team as goalie, she meets with resistence, but also gets support, especially from the star forward of the team.
Hide and Seek
Jessica
In this adaptation of the 1977 sci-fi novel, "The Adolescence of P-1," a high school whiz kid's computer program accidentally hooks into the mainframe computer of a nuclear power plant.
Queen Tut
Executive Producer
Upon the loss of his mother, an Egyptian teenager leaves his home of Cairo to live with his father in Toronto. Parachuted into the underground queer nightlife in Toronto, he confronts his mother's death, much to his father's disapproval, by taking up the ways of drag and becoming Queen Tut.