
Acting
Ingrid Veninger
Born
1968-08-21 (58)
Place of birth
Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Known for
Acting
Credits
76 titles
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, Scr…
Known for
7.4Nikita 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.
La Femme Nikita
1997
4.9A 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.
Godsend
2004
NRFollows the lives of three young doctors fresh from medical school, and embarking on their new careers.
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
2010
6.1Three 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 Gate
1987
6.1The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
Out of the Ashes
2003
5.4In 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?
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1998
Film credits
2010s · 4 titles
4.6A 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.
He Hated Pigeons
2015
NRThe 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
The Other Side of Porcupine Lake
2017
NRWhen a mother and daughter tour film festivals in Europe and decide to part ways, they must confront life-changing choices alone, before returning home.
I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person
2012
NRA retrospective documentary on 9/11 in connection with the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival.
Solace in the Dark
2011
2000s · 15 titles
4.9A 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.
Godsend
2004
6.1The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
Out of the Ashes
2003
5.7Five 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.
Steal This Movie
2000
7.1A 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.
Harlan County War
2000
4.1Phil 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.
Phil the Alien
2004
8.6Walter 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.
Walter and Henry
2001
7.4A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.
Wild Iris
2001
5.8Gabriel 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.
The Limb Salesman
2004
NRIn 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.
Hotel Vladivostok
2006
4.5Tells the story of one day shared between a young boy and girl.
Only
2008
6.5Neil is the story of a man suffering from agoraphobia among other severe mental illnesses stemming from secret government experiments concerning astral projection.
Neil
2005
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.
Everything is Love and Fear
2006
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.
On Their Knees
2001
A young mother tries to reclaim her son by tap dancing in the streets of Vladivostok, Russia.
Mama
2005
NRAgainst 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.
Urda/Bone
2003
1990s · 6 titles
5.4In 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?
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1998
6.1Diane 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.
Forget Me Never
1999
5.3A junkie couple board themselves in their apartment while they try to kick their heroin habit.
H
1990
7.0Jury 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
We the Jury
1996
5.0Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
The Life Before This
1999
3.9A 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.
Destiny To Order
1990
1980s · 6 titles
6.1Three 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 Gate
1987
6.3When 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.
Hockey Night
1984
5.4When 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.
Sing
1989
10.0In 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.
Hide and Seek
1984
6.8The 12-year-old son of a freedom fighter grows up fast in World War II Yugoslavia.
The War Boy
1985
NRA troubled teenager is sent to a summer cabin to help a woman, who turns out being her actual birth mother.
Islands
1984
Series credits
7.4Nikita 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.
La Femme Nikita
1997
NRFollows the lives of three young doctors fresh from medical school, and embarking on their new careers.
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
2010
NRFollows the lives of three young doctors fresh from medical school, and embarking on their new careers.
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
2010
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.
Airwaves
1986
Behind the camera
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(NINE) is a timeless multiversal experience of what it means to find connection in a time of isolation, orchestrated by one of Canada's most fierce and prolific indie filmmakers, Ingrid Veniger.
ONE NINE
2021
5.2During 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.
Porcupine Lake
2017
5.2During 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.
Porcupine Lake
2017
5.2During 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.
Porcupine Lake
2017
4.6A 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.
He Hated Pigeons
2015
4.6A 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.
He Hated Pigeons
2015
4.6A 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.
He Hated Pigeons
2015
NRTwo Cuban brothers hope to make it big with their music videos - and make their family at home proud of them.
The World or Nothing
2019
5.8Filmmaker 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.
Gambling, Gods and LSD
2002
NRThe 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
The Other Side of Porcupine Lake
2017
5.8Gabriel 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.
The Limb Salesman
2004
5.8Gabriel 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.
The Limb Salesman
2004
7.1Working 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 regions of time we cannot see, to lava flows in Hawaii which have overwhelmed all but one home on the south side of Big Island; from the disintegration of inner-city Detroit, to a Hindu funeral rite near the place of Buddha's enlightenment, Mettler explores our perception of time. He dares to dream the movie of the future while also immersing us in the wonder of the everyday. THE END OF TIME, at once personal, rigorous and visionary, Peter Mettler has crafted a film as compelling and magnificent as its subject.
The End of Time
2012
NRWhen a mother and daughter tour film festivals in Europe and decide to part ways, they must confront life-changing choices alone, before returning home.
I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person
2012
NRWhen a mother and daughter tour film festivals in Europe and decide to part ways, they must confront life-changing choices alone, before returning home.
I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person
2012
NRIn 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.
Hotel Vladivostok
2006
NRIn 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.
Hotel Vladivostok
2006
3.2As 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.
The Animal Project
2013
3.2As 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.
The Animal Project
2013
4.5Tells the story of one day shared between a young boy and girl.
Only
2008
NRHead 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. That is until he finds himself both summoned for jury duty and under the constant harassment of the pizza delivery guy (Stoo Metz). With no other option, Floyd must confront his past, make friends with his enemies, and battle the great big scary unknown that is the outside world.
Head Space
2016
6.5Neil is the story of a man suffering from agoraphobia among other severe mental illnesses stemming from secret government experiments concerning astral projection.
Neil
2005
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.
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.
Everything is Love and Fear
2006
A young mother tries to reclaim her son by tap dancing in the streets of Vladivostok, Russia.
Mama
2005
A young mother tries to reclaim her son by tap dancing in the streets of Vladivostok, Russia.
Mama
2005
4.7An urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child.
Nurse.Fighter.Boy
2009
4.7An urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child.
Nurse.Fighter.Boy
2009
4.0The 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.
Modra
2010
4.0The 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.
Modra
2010
NRCan an eight-year-old boy dressed as a bunny change the world? He thinks he can.
The Bunny Project
2004
NRCan an eight-year-old boy dressed as a bunny change the world? He thinks he can.
The Bunny Project
2004
NRCan an eight-year-old boy dressed as a bunny change the world? He thinks he can.
The Bunny Project
2004
NRAgainst 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.
Urda/Bone
2003
NRAgainst 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.
Urda/Bone
2003
NRAgainst 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.
Urda/Bone
2003
NRIn 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 challenging times.
Wish
2021
NRIn "Crocodile Eyes," Canada’s "DIY queen of indie filmmaking" presents a collection of raw, unfiltered vignettes that delve into the heart of human intimacy.
Crocodile Eyes
2025
NRIn "Crocodile Eyes," Canada’s "DIY queen of indie filmmaking" presents a collection of raw, unfiltered vignettes that delve into the heart of human intimacy.
Crocodile Eyes
2025
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.
Headshots
2011

