Nurse.Fighter.Boy

WORLD PREMIERE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

(92 min. 2008)

DIRECTOR: Charles Officer

SCREENPLAY: Ingrid Veninger, Charles Officer

PRODUCER: Ingrid Veninger

A young boy turns to magic to protect his dying mother and unknowingly conjures a lover for her, and a father for himself.

“This risky, rewarding drama blends emotional naturalism with a formal style in the story of its three titular characters — a young Jamaican-Canadian mother with sickle-cell anemia, an ex-boxer looking for a human connection and a 12-year-old boy.” Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

“A stupendous soundtrack, telling images, sensitive performances and an honest emotional screenplay.” Sophie Godin, Festival du Nouveau Cinema

“Nurse.Fighter.Boy is a rich exploration of the connections between the healer, the warrior and the child of its title.”Jesse Wente, TIFF

Everything is love and fear

WORLD PREMIERE ASPEN SHORTSFEST

(8 min. 2006)

DIRECTORS: Ingrid Veninger, Charles Officer

SCREENPLAY: Ingrid Veninger, Charles Officer

PRODUCER: Ingrid Veninger

A woman and man have an affair in a hotel room in Vladivostok and conceive a child. After seven years, they meet again and remember their night together. An 8 minute improvisation created while attending a film festival in Vladivostok, Russia.

 

Hotel Vladivostok

Why do we remember the past and not the future?

In a hotel overlooking the Sea of Japan, six disparate vignettes inter-connect
giving time a shape.

Murder, sacrifice, betrayal, longing and regret weave into a tapestry of souls
remembering and forgetting.

The Process:
7 Directors
From different parts of the world
Met for the first time
At a film festival in Russia
Together, they decided to make a movie
5 Actors were invited to play multiple roles
Each director had 2 to 4 hours to shoot a vignette
1 camera rotated from room to room
Total 24 hours of Production
No script
No rules
1 hotel

The Limb Salesman

WORLD PREMIERE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

(80 min. 2005)

(a.k.a. Re-Generation)

DIRECTOR: Anais Granofsky

SCREENPLAY: Anais Granofsky, Ingrid Veninger

PRODUCERS: Ingrid Veninger, Nicholas Tabarrok, Anais Granofsky

“A retro-future gothic romance.” Geoff Pevere, The Toronto Star

“BLADE RUNNER meets Guy Maddin’s THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD…Atmospheric and dark…the (Fielder) family make the royals look well-adjusted.” Chris Knight, The National Post

“First sight of Abe’s (Clark Johnson) gabled house, standing alone in a giant snowy field, suggests “Giant” and “Days of Heaven,” and John Welsman’s majestic, medieval-style score offers a film with terrific sights and sounds.” Robert Koehler, Variety

Urda/Bone.

WORLD PREMIER NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL LINCOLN CENTER

(5 min. 2004)

DIRECTORS: Ingrid Veninger, Charles Officer

PRODUCER: Ingrid Veninger

Somewhere between Frankfurt and Vienna, between dreaming and being awake, where possibilities are held and lost. This is Urda/Bone.

“URDA/BONE. is stunning.” Laura Michalchyshyn, Sundance Channel

“Sophisticated and sensual, evocative and inventive.” Jeremy Podeswa, Filmmaker

Gambling, Gods & LSD

WORLD PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL NYON – VISIONS DU REEL

(180 min. 2002)

DIRECTOR: Peter Mettler

PRODUCERS: Ingrid Veninger, Cornelia Seitler, Alexandra Rockingham Gill

A filmmaker’s inquiry into transcendence become a three-hour trip across countries and cultures, interconnecting people, places and times.

“Mesmerizing… Hallucinogenic… A documentary that is more dreamlike than any drama.” Brian D. Johnson, MACLEAN’S

“Gambling, Gods and LSD becomes a sort of divine sacrament, melting the viewer’s synapses with a mesmerizing array of sights, sounds and genuinely profound insights… It ranks with the most visionary work of Chris Marker and Joris Ivens.” Jason Anderson, EYE MAGAZINE

“A fascinating three-hour exploration/autobiography/Zen meditation.” Cameron Bailey, NOW MAGAZINE

The Bunny Project

WORLD PREMIERE SPROCKETS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

(2 min. 2002)

DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER – Ingrid Veninger

Can an eight-year-old boy dressed as a bunny change the world? He thinks he can. Made as part of Toronto’s 24 hour On-The-Fly film challenge.