Ingrid Veninger
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WEBSITE INGRID VENINGER http://www.punkfilms.ca MOBILE Born in Bratislava and raised in Canada, Ingrid formed pUNK Films in 2003 with a 1 (416) 737-9939 (Toronto) 'nothing is impossible' manifesto. Since 2008, Ingrid has produced ten feature EMAIL films, which have premiered at international festivals including: TIFF, Rotterdam, [email protected] Locarno, Slamdance, Whistler, Rome, OUTFest, MoMA and Karlovy Vary, garnering awards and distribution worldwide. In 2014 she initiated the pUNK Films FEMMES LAB to foster original screenplays written by Canadian women, COMMUNITY INITIATIVES sponsored by Academy Award winner Melissa Leo. In 2019, Ingrid joined the full- 2015 1KWave Atlantic time faculty at York University in the Cinema and Media Arts department. In April 5 features for $5K written/directed by Women 2020, she launched a collaborative project, wherein 10 female filmmakers from Atlantic, Canada, launched with WIFT-AT from around the world co-create a 100-minute film in response to the Covid- 19 pandemic, EXQUISITE CADAVER: ISOLATION EDITION. 2014 pUNK Films Femmes Lab 6 month screenwriting intensive 6 original LANGUAGES MEMBERSHIP EDUCATION scripts written by 6 Canadian Women, funded English DGC – DIRECTOR MFA Degree by Academy Award Winner Melissa Leo Slovak York University INSTRUCTOR 2012 1KWave Toronto 2019 - present Full-time faculty, York University Department of Cinema & Media Arts 5 features for $5000 written/directed by 2015-present Resident Film Mentor, Canadian Film Centre veteran/emerging Toronto Filmmakers, 2011-2019 Part-time Faculty, York University Department of Cinema & Media Arts launched with Stacey Donen, Royal Cinema 2014-2017 Screenwriter-in-Residence, University of Toronto FILMOGRAPHY - WRITER/PRODUCER/DIRECTOR AWARDS • 2019, THE WORLD OR NOTHING (El Mundo o Nada), 84 min. Documentary, 2018 Masters - Social Sciences and Humanities Prod/Dir. Ingrid Veninger. Synopsis: Portrait of 29-year-old Cuban twin Research Council of Canada Award (SSHRC) brother who migrate to Spain. World Premiere 2019 HOT DOCS. 2017-18 Ontario Fellowship Scholarship 2016 Honorary Director – He Hated Pigeons • 2018, THE OTHER SIDE OF PORCUPINE LAKE, 84 min. Documentary. Prod. Awarded by Female Eye Film Festival Ingrid Veninger. Dir. Julian Papas. Synopsis: a comprehensive behind-the- 2015 Birks Diamond Tribute to Women in Film: scenes view of making Porcupine Lake. World Premiere WHISTLER FF. Awarded by Telefilm Canada 2013 EDA Director Award for The Animal • 2017, PORCUPINE LAKE, 85 min. Fiction. Writer/Prod/Dir. Ingrid Veninger. Project – Alliance of Women Film Journalists Synopsis: A story of bravery and the secret world of girls. Distribution: Films 2012 Visionary Award - TheWIFTS Foundation We Like (Canada), Breaking Glass Pictures (U.S.). World Premiere TIFF. 2011 Jay Scott Prize Awarded by The Toronto Film Critics Association • 2015, HE HATED PIGEONS, 80 min. Fiction. Writer/Prod/Dir. Ingrid 2011 New Vision Mentoring Award Veninger. Synopsis: A slow-burning Chilean odyssey about love and loss, Presented by WIFT-KODAK presented with an ever-changing live score. World Premiere ROTTERDAM. 2010 Audience Award – MODRA - Bratislava International Film Festival • 2013, THE ANIMAL PROJECT, 90 min. Fiction. Writer/Prod/Dir. Ingrid 2003 Genie Award – Producer – Best Veninger. Synopsis: A story about a love, art, and the act of living. Documentary – GAMBLING, GODS & LSD Distribution: Mongrel Media (Canada). World Premiere TIFF. GRANTS • 2012, THE END OF TIME, 114 min. Documentary. Prod. Ingrid Veninger. Dir. 2018 Canada Council for the Arts: Arts Abroad Peter Mettler Synopsis: Essay documentary exploring our perception of time. Grant to present work in U.S. and overseas. 2018 Toronto Arts Council Grant: To mentor • 2011, i am a good person/i am a bad person, 82 min. Fiction. refugee Iranian filmmaker, Omid Shakiba. Writer/Prod/Dir. Ingrid Veninger. Synopsis: A film festival tour in Europe leave 2015 Canada Council for the Arts: Production a mother and her 18-year-old daughter transformed. World Premiere TIFF. Grant to create He Hated Pigeons. 2015 Toronto Arts Council Grant: To produce • 2010, MODRA, 80 min. Fiction. Writer/Prod/Dir. Ingrid Veninger. event-based cinema He Hated Pigeons. Synopsis: A portrait of teenage self-discovery against the backdrop of a quirky 2006 Ontario Arts Council: An improvised int’l village in Slovakia. Official Selection: Canada's Top Ten. World Premiere TIFF. collaboration Hotel VladiVostok. • 2008, ONLY, 75 min. Fiction. Co-Writer/Prod/Dir. Ingrid Veninger with Simon Reynolds. Synopsis: A story of one day shared between a young boy BOARD OF DIRECTORS and girl in northern Ontario. World Premiere TIFF. 2015-Present Cucalorus Film Festival • 2008, NURSE.FIGHTER.BOY, 92 min. Fiction. Co-Writer/Prod. Ingrid Veninger. Dir. Charles Officer. Synopsis: A young boy turns to magic to conjure a lover for his dying mother and a father for himself. Premiere TIFF. • 2006, EVERYTHING IS LOVE AND FEAR, 07:00 min. Colour, HD (with Charles Officer). Synopsis: A woman and man have an affair in a hotel room in WEBSITE http://www.punkfilms.ca INGRID VENINGER CV pg 2 MOBILE 1 (416) 737-9939 (Toronto) ADDITIONAL FILMOGRAPHY – SELECTED EMAIL • 2006, HOTEL VLADIVOSTOK, 35 min. Fiction. International Collaboration. Synopsis: [email protected] Six Directors from different parts of the world (Canada, Russia, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Australia) met for the first time at a film festival in Russia. Together, they LAB PARTICPANT made a film. Six nomadic stories were woven through the rooms of a retro Russian 2014 TIFF STUDIO – Inaugural Lab Participant hotel located on the Sea of Japan and various performers were invited to play 2010 ROTTERDAM – Producer Lab Participant multiple roles. 24 hours of production. No scripts. No rules. Premiere VANCOUVER. 2008 BERLINALE – Talent Lab Participant 2000-2001 CFC – Producer Resident • 2006, URIAH, 9 min. Fiction. Prod. Ingrid Veninger. Dir. Simon Reynolds. Synopsis: A black comedy, bringing new meaning to the words ‘parental guidance’. Premiere WHISTLER. MASTERCLASS TEACHER & MENTOR 2019 Compassionate Artist Workshop w Writers, • 2005, THE LIMB SALESMAN, 80 min. Fiction. Producer and Co-Writer Ingrid Producers, Directors, Actors, Editors, Composers Veninger with Dir. Anais Granofsky. Synopsis: A retro-future-gothic romance. Set in at Canadian Film Centre, CFC. Northern Canada in a dystopian future. World Premiere TIFF. 2018 Masterclass Day Intensive - Case Study of 10 features in 10 years for all CFC Residents. • 2004, THE BUNNY PROJECT, 3 min. Fiction. Writer/Prod./Dir. Ingrid Veninger. 2018 Workshop Leader – Busan Int’l FF. Synopsis: Can an 8-year-old boy dressed as a bunny change the world? He thinks he 2017 Masterclass - Canadian Film Festival with can. World Premiere SPROCKETS. Vincenzo Natali and Craig David Wallace. 2016 Workshop Leader - Available Light FF – • 2004, URDA/BONE, 5 min. Fiction. Producer/Co-Writer/Co-Director Ingrid Whitehorse, Yukon. Veninger with Charles Officer. Synopsis: Intoxication, stillness, and desire unfold 2016 Workshop Leader - FEMCine Script to from a train in Frankfurt to a room in Vienna. Premiere NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL. Screen Intensive – Santiago, Chile. 2016 Workshop Leader-Micro-Budget • 2003, GAMBLING, GODS AND LSD, 180 min. Documentary. Co-Producer Ingrid Filmmaking-St. John’s Int’l Women’s FF. Veninger. Dir. Peter Mettler. Synopsis: A Canada/Switzerland feature documentary 2015 Mentor - Women in Film Workshop exploring the essence of transcendence. World Premiere LOCARNO. Cucalorus– Co-hosted with Josephine Decker. 2014 Masterclass - DIY Filmmaking – Dawson City. • 2001, THREE SISTERS ON MOON LAKE, 22 min. Fiction. Producer Ingrid Veninger. 2014 Masterclass – 3 days on Directing – LIFT. Dir. Julia Kwan. Synopsis: Three young Chinese-Canadian sisters discover the beauty 2014 Directing Masterclass - SIFT OTTAWA. and tragedy of the imagination. World Premiere TIFF. 2012 Mentor for Toronto Stories – iTHENTIC. 2011 Mentor 'FASP Program' – NSI and Telefilm. • 1999, SO BEAUTIFUL, 9 min. Fiction. Prod. Ingrid Veninger Dir. Jacob Wren. 2010 Masterclass – Directing – Goa Int’l FF. Synopsis: After a night of love a women wakes to discover the unexpected and inevitable death of her lover. World Premiere TIFF. WORKSHOP LEADER & PANELS • 1997, PICTURE OF LIGHT, 83 min. Documentary. Co-Prod. Ingrid Veninger. Dir. 2018 Moderator Panel - Screenwriting in age of Peter Mettler. Synopsis: A film crew braves the rigors of the Canadian Arctic Circle in #metoo #timesup Female in the Industry – York U. winter to document the beauty of the aurora borealis. World Premiere YAMAGATA. 2018 Moderator Panel – Grizzlies – DGC Ontario. 2017 Moderator Panel – Luk’Luk’I – DGC Ontario. • 1992, STANDARDS, 60 min. Television Documentary. Prod. Ingrid Veninger. Dir. Jeremy 2017 Panel Participant - Surviving in the Podeswa. Synopsis: A music documentary exploring the nature and enduring appeal of Canadian Film Industry – St. John’s Women’s FF. jazz and pop song standards. Premiere CBC. 2016 Moderator Panel - Pulitzer Prize playwright John Patrick Shanley – Artscape, Toronto. 2016 Panel - Behind the Lens – Whistler FF. ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE 2016 Female POV Panel – Cucalorus FF. 2003-present: STORY EDITING AND SCRIPT CONSULTING 2016 Workshop leader at Melbourne Queer FF. 2002-present: CANADIAN FILM CENTRE: CFC jury to select Residents for the 2016 Workshop leader for OCADU Digital Futures Cineplex Entertainment Film Program and the Actor's Conservatory. Initiative. 2000-2003: