Ingrid Veninger

Ingrid Veninger is a Canadian filmmaker who acts, writes, directs and produces, and who teaches film at York University. Born in Bratislava, she came to Canada as a child in the 1970s and started in show business at eleven, in a Bell Canada advertisement alongside Megan Follows. As a teenager she appeared in the CBC series Airwaves and the horror series Friday the 13th: The Series, and she later had a recurring part on the action series La Femme Nikita. She produced the documentaries Standards and Picture of Light, assisted Atom Egoyan on The Adjuster, and studied at the Canadian Film Centre in 2000. After founding pUNK Films in 2003 she wrote and directed six features, among them Only (2008), Modra, The Animal Project, He Hated Pigeons and Porcupine Lake. She won the Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association in 2011 and an EDA Award in 2013 from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists.