Acting

Ingrid Veninger

Born August 21, 1968 · Bratislava, Slovak Republic (age 58)

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, garner…

Known For

Godsend

Godsend · 2004

MovieDramaHorror

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.

The Gate

The Gate · 1987

MovieHorrorFantasy

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.

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three · 1998

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

MovieCrimeThriller

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?

BRUTALISM

BRUTALISM · 2020

MovieDramaComedy

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.

Forget Me Never

Forget Me Never · 1999

Forget Me Never

MovieDramaTV 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.

Out of the Ashes

Out of the Ashes · 2003

Out of the Ashes

MovieDramaTV Movie

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

Harlan County War

Harlan County War · 2000

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.

We the Jury

We the Jury · 1996

MovieCrimeDrama

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 the identity of the culprit, the jury has to decide between manslaughter and murder. - Written by Holger Hellmuth hellmuth@ira.uka.de

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Godsend

Godsend · 2004

MovieDramaHorror

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.

Mrs. Farr

The Gate

The Gate · 1987

MovieHorrorFantasy

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.

Paula

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three · 1998

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

MovieCrimeThriller

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?

Graduate student on subway

BRUTALISM

BRUTALISM · 2020

MovieDramaComedy

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.

Woman on the PA

Forget Me Never

Forget Me Never · 1999

Forget Me Never

MovieDramaTV 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.

Ginny

Out of the Ashes

Out of the Ashes · 2003

Out of the Ashes

MovieDramaTV Movie

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

Zozia

Harlan County War

Harlan County War · 2000

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.

Becky Jones

We the Jury

We the Jury · 1996

MovieCrimeDrama

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 the identity of the culprit, the jury has to decide between manslaughter and murder. - Written by Holger Hellmuth hellmuth@ira.uka.de

The Adjuster

The Adjuster · 1991

MovieDramaMystery

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

Third Assistant Director

Steal This Movie

Steal This Movie · 2000

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.

Judy Albert

Porcupine Lake

Porcupine Lake · 2017

MovieDramaRomance

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 girls.

Production Design

Queen Tut

Queen Tut · 2024

MovieDramaComedy

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 ways of drag and becoming Queen Tut.

Executive Producer

He Hated Pigeons

He Hated Pigeons · 2015

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.

Writer

The World or Nothing

The World or Nothing · 2019

The World or Nothing

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

Director

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.

Naomi

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek · 1984

MovieDramaTV 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.

Jessica

Wild Iris

Wild Iris · 2001

MovieDramaTV Movie

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

Woman in Line at the Mall

Phil the Alien

Phil the Alien · 2004

MovieActionComedy

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.

Candy

Hotel Vladivostok

Hotel Vladivostok · 2006

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.

Director

Hockey Night

Hockey Night · 1984

MovieDramaTV 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.

Evelyn

Walter and Henry

Walter and Henry · 2001

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.

Intern Doctor

The Life Before This

The Life Before This · 1999

The Life Before This

MovieCrimeThriller

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

Stage Manager

The Other Side of Porcupine Lake

The Other Side of Porcupine Lake · 2017

The Other Side of Porcupine Lake

MovieDocumentary

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

Producer

Gambling, Gods and LSD

Gambling, Gods and LSD · 2002

Gambling, Gods and LSD

MovieDocumentary

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 wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker's mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and sounds, reflecting the fragmented but alluring worlds it attempts to capture.

Producer

La Femme Nikita

La Femme Nikita · 1997

La Femme Nikita

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Nikita is a drug-addicted juvenile delinquent who was accused of killing a police officer in cold blood during an attempted robbery of a pharmacy. She is later arrested and sentenced to death by lethal injection, upon which she was secretly drugged by the government, faking her death. Nikita is then "recruited" by a secret government organization and transformed into a highly skilled assassin who cannot be traced.

Siobhan

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures · 2010

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

Follows the lives of three young doctors fresh from medical school, and embarking on their new careers.

Maria (uncredited)