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Ingrid Veninger

Ingrid Veninger

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.

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Movies Starring Ingrid Veninger (31)

BRUTALISM (2020)

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 (2017)

The Other Side of Porcupine Lake follows Ingrid Veninger as she makes her sixth feature film, Porcupine Lake. ...

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He Hated Pigeons (2015)

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 (2012)

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 (2011)

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

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Only (2008)

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

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Hotel Vladivostok (2006)

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 ...

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Everything is Love and Fear (2006)

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 (2005)

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 (2005)

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

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The Limb Salesman (2004)

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 Goo ...

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Phil the Alien (2004)

Phil the Alien crashes to Earth and find himself alone in the wilds of northern Canada. In the process of going home he goes from drunk to christian rock singer to mass murder. ...

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Godsend (2004)

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 (2003)

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 ...

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Out of the Ashes (2003)

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 (2001)

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 (2001)

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 a ...

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Wild Iris (2001)

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

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Steal This Movie (2000)

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 (2000)

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 (1999)

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 test ...

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The Life Before This (1999)

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 (1998)

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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We the Jury (1996)

Jury has to decide on a murder case but some of the jurors have their own agendas or are biased. Sounds like '12 Angry Men' but this is not a remake. It's a totally fresh take on the theme. Totally different case, for example. There is no question about th ...

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H (1990)

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

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Destiny To Order (1990)

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 makin ...

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Sing (1989)

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 ...

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The Gate (1987)

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 ...

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The War Boy (1985)

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

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Hockey Night (1984)

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 (1984)

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. ...

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Movies Made By Ingrid Veninger (24)

Queen Tut (2024)

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 w ...

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Wish (2021)

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 ...

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ONE NINE (2021)

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( ...

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The World or Nothing (2019)

Two Cuban brothers hope to make it big with their music videos - and make their family at home proud of them. ...

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The Other Side of Porcupine Lake (2017)

The Other Side of Porcupine Lake follows Ingrid Veninger as she makes her sixth feature film, Porcupine Lake. ...

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Porcupine Lake (2017)

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 girl ...

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Head Space (2016)

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. T ...

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He Hated Pigeons (2015)

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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The Animal Project (2013)

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. ...

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The End of Time (2012)

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 re ...

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I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person (2012)

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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Headshots (2011)

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. ...

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Modra (2010)

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. ...

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Nurse.Fighter.Boy (2009)

An urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child. ...

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Only (2008)

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

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Hotel Vladivostok (2006)

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 ...

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Everything is Love and Fear (2006)

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 (2005)

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 (2005)

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

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The Limb Salesman (2004)

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 Goo ...

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The Bunny Project (2004)

Can an eight-year-old boy dressed as a bunny change the world? He thinks he can. ...

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Urda/Bone (2003)

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 ...

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Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)

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 wilde ...

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The Adjuster (1991)

An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords. ...

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