INGRID VENINGER holds a MFA from York University and is a tenured faculty member of AMPD (School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design), in the department of Cinema and Media Arts.
Born in Bratislava and raised in Canada, Ingrid formed pUNK Films Inc. with a “nothing is impossible” manifesto. Since 2003, she has produced fifteen (15) feature films with premieres at TIFF, Rotterdam, Locarno, Slamdance, Whistler, Rome, Hot Docs, Karlovy Vary and MoMA in New York. With retrospectives of her work in Ottawa at the Canadian Film Institute and in Santiago, Chile at FEMCine. Ingrid received the WIFTS International Visionary Award, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists EDA Award for “Best Director” and the Jay Scott Prize awarded by the Toronto Film Critics Association. A member of the Directors Guild of Canada and participant in the inaugural TIFF Studio, Berlinale Talents, and Rotterdam Producer’s Lab, Ingrid has been a mentor at the Canadian Film Centre and Screenwriter-in-Residence at the University of Toronto. Here recent dogme-docu-experimental feature, CROCODILE EYES, premiered at the Canadian Film Fest in March 2025.
An advocate for gender parity, Ingrid initiated the pUNK Films Femmes Lab in 2014 to foster narrative feature films written and directed by Canadian women, sponsored by Academy Award winner Melissa Leo. In July 2020, Ingrid took the Producer’s Pledge to “acknowledge & dismantle systemic racism in Canadian film & television.” pUNK FILMS www.punkfilms.ca
FILMOGRAPHY:
2025 – crocodile eyes, 75 minutes – Producer/Director
2022 – IF YOU WERE ME, 13 minutes – Producer/Writer/Director
2021 – ONE(NINE), 83 minutes – Executive Producer/Co-Director
2021 – WISH, 11 minutes – Producer/Writer/Director
2019 – EL MUNDO O NADA (THE WORLD OR NOTHING), 84 minutes – Producer/Director
2017 – THE OTHER SIDE OF PORCUPINE LAKE, 84 minutes – Producer
2017 – PORCUPINE LAKE, 85 minutes – Producer/Writer/Director
2015 – HE HATED PIGEONS, 80 minutes – Producer/Writer/Director
2013 – THE ANIMAL PROJECT, 90 minutes – Producer/Writer/Director
2012 – THE END OF TIME, 114 minutes – Producer
2011 – i am a good person/i am a bad person, 82 minutes – Producer/Writer/Director
2010 – MODRA, 80 minutes – Producer/Writer/Director
2008 – ONLY, 75 minutes – Co-Producer/Writer/Director with Simon Reynolds
2008 – NURSE.FIGHTER.BOY, 92 minutes – Producer/Co-Writer with Charles Officer
2006 – EVERYTHING IS LOVE & FEAR, 8 minutes – Producer/Co-Writer/Co-Director with Charles Officer
2005 – THE LIMB SALESMAN, 80 minutes – Producer/Co-Writer with Anais Granofsky
2004 – URDA/BONE, 5 minutes – Producer/Co-Director with Charles Officer
2003 – GAMBLING, GODS & LSD, 180 minutes – Producer
2002 – THE BUNNY PROJECT, 2 minutes – Producer/Writer/Director
2001 – THREE SISTERS ON MOON LAKE, 19 minutes – Producer
1999 – SO BEAUTIFUL, 9 minutes – Producer
1998 – LEDA & THE SWAN, 70 minutes – Producer
1997 – PICTURE OF LIGHT, 83 minutes – Line Producer
1992 – STANDARDS, 48 minutes – Co-Producer with Jeremy Podeswa
