WEBSITE INGRID VENINGER http://www.punkfilms.ca MOBILE Born in Bratislava and raised in , 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 . 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, 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 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 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. . 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: TELEFILM CANADA: Worked as a Creative Investment Analyst for the 2016 Panel Moderator - WIFT-ATLANTIC. LOW BUDGET INDEPENDENT FEATURE FILM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. 2016 Panel participant moderated by Cameron 1990-2003: GRIMTHORPE FILM INC.: Over a period of 13 years at Grimthorpe Film, Bailey with , Kazik Radwanski, Dan Ingrid was the producer of current and upcoming projects by Peter Mettler. Lyon about ‘Changes’ – TIFF Breakfast. 1995-1996: ATLANTIS FILMS SCRIPT CO-ORDINATOR: Assistant and researcher on 2016 Panel Participant with Joe Swanberg moderated the television series TRADERS under Executive Story Editor David Shore. by Dan Schoenbrun – Maryland FF. 1993-1994: ATLANTIS FILMS: Executive Assistant for producers Larry Raskin and 2016 Panelist - Fibe TV1 – Hosted by Thom Ernst. Mary Kahn and administrator of the Atlantis Films Post Apprenticeship Program. 1992: TECTONIC PLATES: Script supervisor and Ass’t to director Peter Mettler on the Rhombus Media/Hauer-Rawlence Production shot on-location Toronto, Paris, Venice, Scotland.

WEBSITE INGRID VENINGER CV pg 3 http://www.punkfilms.ca MOBILE ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE continuted 1 (416) 737-9939 (Toronto) rd EMAIL 1990: THE ADJUSTER: Directed by . Ingrid was the 3 AD working [email protected] alongside 1st AD David Webb. Duties included: communicating with cast, completing call-sheets and daily DPRs. GUEST SPEAKER 2000-2003: TELEFILM CANADA: Worked as a Creative Investment Analyst for the LOW BUDGET INDEPENDENT FEATURE FILM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. 2019 Women Production Summit, Atlanta Georgia 1990-2003: GRIMTHORPE FILM INC.: Over a period of 13 years at Grimthorpe 2018 Cucalorus Connect Conference-Wilmington, Film, Ingrid was the producer of current and upcoming projects by Peter North Carolina-Guest Speaker. Mettler. 2017 Guest Speaker at TIFF REEL TALK with Jane 1995-1996: ATLANTIS FILMS SCRIPT CO-ORDINATOR: Assistant and researcher Schoettle at TIFF Bell Lightbox. on the television series TRADERS under Executive Story Editor David Shore. 2017 Guest Speaker at TIFF REEL TALK with 1993-1994: ATLANTIS FILMS: Executive Assistant for producers Larry Raskin and Cameron Bailey at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Mary Kahn and administrator of the Atlantis Films Post-Production 2016 Keynote Speaker for TIFF Telefilm Canada. Apprenticeship Program. 2015 TIFF TOP TEN Presenter 'Mon Oncle Antoine'. 1992: THE HAROLD GREENBERG FUND: Freelance Script Reader. 2012 Keynote Address for Inaugural TIFF NEXT WAVE . 1992: TECTONIC PLATES: Script supervisor and Assistant to director Peter 2012 LUMINATO Presenter 'Koyaanisqatsi' at TIFF. Mettler on the Rhombus Media/Hauer-Rawlence Production shot on-location in 2012 TIFF REEL COMFORT - Guest Speaker /Presenter. Toronto, Paris, Venice, Scotland. 2011 TIFF HIGHER LEARNING - Guest Speaker. rd 1990: THE ADJUSTER: Directed by Atom Egoyan. Ingrid was the 3 AD working 2011 NSI Features First Program - Guest Speaker . alongside 1st AD David Webb. Duties included: communicating with cast, 2010 U of Toronto Film Club - Guest Speaker. completing call-sheets and daily DPR's. 2010 WIFT -Annual Meeting -Guest Speaker. 1988-1990: ATLANTIS FILMS/ARTZ ENTERPRISES INC. “CAT’S EYE” CO-

PRODUCER: Ingrid optioned the rights to CAT’S EYE and was the co-producer JURY & COMMITTEE MEMBER with Seaton McLean of Atlantis Films. Directors were Patricia Rozema, Daniel 2019 Austin Film Society, Feature Film Grant Jury Petrie Sr. and Peter Pearson, respectively. Screenwriter was . 2019 Screenwriting Jury-President’s Award, York U. Ingrid worked intensively on various drafts of the screenplay with Margaret 2018 Cucalorus Festival – Programming Committee. Atwood, completing development applications with support from The Harold 2017 DGC Discovery Award – Jury Chair. Greenberg FUND, Telefilm Canada and OFDC. 2017 Canada Council Jury, Established Filmmakers. 2016 Borsos Jury – Whistler Film Festival with Deepa Mehta . PERFORMANCE/ACTING 2016 RIDM - International Feature Film Jury. 1987 - 2018: Over 100 televisions, feature film, and theatre credits. 2016 CFC Selection Committee - Actor's Conservatory. Performance Resume upon request. 2015 TIFF Selection Committee - TIFF Rising Stars.

2015 CFC Selection Committee - Director Residents. 2014 TIFF Canadian Feature Film Jury. REPRESENTATION 2013 Whistler Film Festival MPPIA Short Film Award Jury . Christopher Oldfield - [email protected] 2013 DGC Independent Filmmaker Committee with "Ingrid Veninger: the DIY queen of Canadian Filmmaking.” Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail. Jacob Tierney, Kari Skogland, Richie Mehta. 2012 Breakthrough Women's Film Festival Jury – Toronto. "Veninger is one of precious few Canadian directors guaranteed to give us something 2011 Presenter DGC AWARDS 'Best Direction in a fascinating." Dave Robson, soundonsight.org TV Series' Winner - . 2010 Polar Lights Competition Jury Member “Influenced by John Cassavetes and Mike Leigh, Canadian filmmaker Ingrid Veninger is representing Canada - Murmansk, Russia. developing an approach to her humanist form of dramatic cinema that is clearly all hers.” 2009 TIFF TOP TEN Selection Panel. Greg Klymkiw, Canadian Film Corner

“Veninger is a director worth following, as she proves the value of women filmmakers RETROSPECTIVES and the great power of storytelling that they hold.” Ilse de Mucha Herrera, Arts Scene 2014: FEMCINE IN SANTIAGO, CHILE PRESENTS A MID-CAREER RETROSPECTIVE: "The DIY Queen of "A skilled demolisher of boundaries, Veninger presents visions of the human experience Filmmaking". that are at once bold and genuine.” Martin Bilodeau, Le Devoir 2012: CANADIAN FILM INSTITUTE PRESENTS A MID- CAREER RETROSPECTIVE: "Intimacies The Cinema “Ingrid Veninger is a full-service cinephile who writes, produces, acts, directs, and has of Ingrid Veninger" even worked as cinematographer and production designer. Canadian film would be less interesting without her.” Richard Crouse