Аватар персоны Ingrid Veninger

Ingrid Veninger

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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.

21-08-1968

Birthday

Leo

Zodiac Sign

-

Genres

29

Total Films

Also known as (female)

Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

29 Works

producer

13 Works

director

40 Works

writer

10 Works

other

2 Works

BRUTALISM

BRUTALISM

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.
0.0

Year:

2020

The Other Side of Porcupine Lake

The Other Side of Porcupine Lake

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
0.0

Year:

2017

He Hated Pigeons

He Hated Pigeons

A young man travels from the Northern Atacama Desert to the southern Patagonian edge of Chile on a cathartic journey of the spirit and to fulfill the wish of his mysteriously deceased lover.
5.2

Year:

2015

I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person

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.
0.0

Year:

2012

Solace in the Dark

Solace in the Dark

A retrospective documentary on 9/11 in connection with the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival.
0.0

Year:

2011

Only

Only

Tells the story of one day shared between a young boy and girl.
4.5

Year:

2008

Hotel Vladivostok

Hotel Vladivostok

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.
0.0

Year:

2006

Everything is Love and Fear

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.
0.0

Year:

2006

Neil

Neil

Neil is the story of a man suffering from agoraphobia among other severe mental illnesses stemming from secret government experiments concerning astral projection.
4.0

Year:

2005

Mama

Mama

A young mother tries to reclaim her son by tap dancing in the streets of Vladivostok, Russia.
0.0

Year:

2005

The Limb Salesman

The Limb Salesman

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.
5.0

Year:

2004

Godsend

Godsend

A couple agree to have their deceased son cloned under the supervision of an enigmatic doctor, but bizarre things start to happen years after his rebirth.
4.9

Year:

2004

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.
0.0

Year:

2003

Out of the Ashes

Out of the Ashes

The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
6.5

Year:

2003

On Their Knees

On Their Knees

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.
2.0

Year:

2001

Walter and Henry

Walter and Henry

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.
8.5

Year:

2001

Wild Iris

Wild Iris

A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.
7.4

Year:

2001

Steal This Movie

Steal This Movie

Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left.
5.8

Year:

2000

Harlan County War

Harlan County War

A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
7.3

Year:

2000

Forget Me Never

Forget Me Never

Diane McGowin was employed as an administrative assistant for a group of attorneys in private practice. She found herself forgetting things, especially losing short term memory. She suspected that something was wrong and went to the doctor. After many tests, the diagnosis was Alzheimer's. Diana did not want to tell her husband, Jack McGowin because she thought her husband, Jack, would be worried about money since she made more money than he did.
5.5

Year:

1999

The Life Before This

The Life Before This

Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
4.3

Year:

1999

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

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?
5.0

Year:

1998

H

H

A junkie couple board themselves in their apartment while they try to kick their heroin habit.
5.5

Year:

1990

Destiny To Order

Destiny To Order

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.
3.7

Year:

1990

Sing

Sing

When a volatile young street tough with a talent for singing and dancing is tapped by the high school music teacher to lead the upcoming senior "Sing," he is forced to come to terms with his defiant self-destructive lifestyle and his growing attraction to his co-star.
5.4

Year:

1989

The Gate

The Gate

Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally taking over the Earth.
6.0

Year:

1987

The War Boy

The War Boy

The 12-year-old son of a freedom fighter grows up fast in World War II Yugoslavia.
5.7

Year:

1985

Hockey Night

Hockey Night

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.
5.9

Year:

1984

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek

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.
0.0

Year:

1984