Ingrid Veninger

Ingrid Veninger

Born: August 21, 1968
in Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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.

Movies for Ingrid Veninger...

BRUTALISM
Title: BRUTALISM
Character: Woman on the PA
Released: April 15, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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The Other Side of Porcupine Lake
Title: The Other Side of Porcupine Lake
Character: Herself
Released: December 2, 2017
Type: Movie
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
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He Hated Pigeons
Title: He Hated Pigeons
Character: Traveler
Released: October 18, 2015
Type: Movie
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.
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I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person
Title: I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person
Released: June 14, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Solace in the Dark
Title: Solace in the Dark
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 2011
Type: Movie
A retrospective documentary on 9/11 in connection with the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival.
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Title: Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
Character: Maria
Released: January 10, 2010
Type: TV
Follows the lives of three young doctors fresh from medical school, and embarking on their new careers.
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Title: Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
Character: Maria (uncredited)
Released: January 10, 2010
Type: TV
Follows the lives of three young doctors fresh from medical school, and embarking on their new careers.
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Only
Title: Only
Released: September 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Tells the story of one day shared between a young boy and girl.
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Hotel Vladivostok
Title: Hotel Vladivostok
Character: Wife
Released: August 31, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Everything is Love and Fear
Title: Everything is Love and Fear
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Neil
Title: Neil
Character: Donna
Released: September 2, 2005
Type: Movie
Neil is the story of a man suffering from agoraphobia among other severe mental illnesses stemming from secret government experiments concerning astral projection.
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Mama
Title: Mama
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A young mother tries to reclaim her son by tap dancing in the streets of Vladivostok, Russia.
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The Limb Salesman
Title: The Limb Salesman
Character: Clara
Released: September 12, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Godsend
Title: Godsend
Character: Mrs. Farr
Released: April 30, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Urda/Bone
Title: Urda/Bone
Released: September 25, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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Out of the Ashes
Title: Out of the Ashes
Character: Zozia
Released: April 13, 2003
Type: Movie
The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
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On Their Knees
Title: On Their Knees
Character: Mo Walker
Released: October 25, 2001
Type: Movie
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.
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Walter and Henry
Title: Walter and Henry
Character: Intern Doctor
Released: June 10, 2001
Type: Movie
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.
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Wild Iris
Title: Wild Iris
Character: Woman in Line at the Mall
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.
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Steal This Movie
Title: Steal This Movie
Released: August 18, 2000
Type: 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.
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Harlan County War
Title: Harlan County War
Character: Becky Jones
Released: May 19, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Forget Me Never
Title: Forget Me Never
Character: Ginny
Released: October 3, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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The Life Before This
Title: The Life Before This
Character: Stage Manager
Released: September 15, 1999
Type: Movie
Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Title: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Character: Graduate student on subway
Released: February 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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?
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Title: La Femme Nikita
Character: Siobhan
Released: January 13, 1997
Type: TV
La Femme Nikita was a Canadian action/drama television series based on the French film Nikita by Luc Besson. The series was co-produced by Jay Firestone of Fireworks Entertainment and Warner Bros.. It was adapted for television by Joel Surnow. The series was first telecast in North America on the USA Network cable channel on January 13, 1997, and ran for five television seasons—until March 2001. The series was also aired in Canada on the over-the-air CTV Television Network. La Femme Nikita was the highest-rated drama on American basic cable during its first two seasons. It was also distributed in some other countries, and it continues to have a strong cult following.
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H
Title: H
Character: Kathleen
Released: September 28, 1990
Type: Movie
A junkie couple board themselves in their apartment while they try to kick their heroin habit.
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Destiny To Order
Title: Destiny To Order
Character: Biker Chick
Released: February 9, 1990
Type: Movie
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.
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Sing
Title: Sing
Character: Naomi
Released: March 31, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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The Gate
Title: The Gate
Character: Paula
Released: April 21, 1987
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Airwaves
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: TV
Airwaves is a Canadian television dramedy which aired on CBC from 1986 to 1987. The Toronto-filmed show starred Roberta Maxwell as Jean Lipton, a radio talk show host and widowed mother, who lived with her daughter Zoe, played by Ingrid Veninger, and her father Bob, played by Roland Hewgill. Maxwell has indicated that Canadian journalist-activist June Callwood was a basis for her portrayal of Jean. The show's cast also included Taborah Johnson, Alec Willows and Kimble Hall. Writers for the series included Judith Thompson, John Frizzell, Susan Martin, Rob Forsythe and Paul Gross. The series was repeated on Vision TV from 1989 to 1991.
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The War Boy
Title: The War Boy
Character: Helena
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
The 12-year-old son of a freedom fighter grows up fast in World War II Yugoslavia.
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Hockey Night
Title: Hockey Night
Character: Evelyn
Released: December 14, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Hide and Seek
Title: Hide and Seek
Character: Jessica
Released: July 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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.