Ingrid Veninger

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Ingrid Veninger (born March 21, 1970 in Bratislava , Slovakia ) is a Slovak-Canadian actress , director , screenwriter and producer .

Origin and youth

Ingrid Veninger was born in Bratislava in 1968 . In the 1970s she emigrated to Canada with her parents . She started her career at the age of 11 with a commercial for Bell Canada .

Career

Acting and production work

As a teenage actress, Veninger appeared in a variety of films and TV series, including the CBC comedy series Airwaves (1986–1987) and the popular horror series Friday the 13th: The Series (1987–1990).

At the age of 21, Veninger acquired the production rights to Margaret Atwood's novel Cat's Eye in 1989 . She worked as assistant director to Atom Egoyan on The Adjuster (1991) and produced Jeremy Podeswas's Gemini Award- nominated documentary standards (1992) and Peter Mettler's documentary Picture of Light (1994). As an actress she has worked with Meryl Streep , Holly Hunter and Jackie Burroughs, among others .

In the 1990s she mainly worked as an actress, for example in the Canadian action series La Femme Nikita . In 2000 she attended the Canadian Film Center where she produced Julia Kwan's award-winning short film Three Sisters on Moon Lake (2001), which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

In 2002, Veninger worked with Atom Egoyan, Peter Mettler, and others on the Genie Award-winning film Gambling, Gods and LSD . In 2003 Veninger founded her production company pUNK Films and increasingly worked on her own projects as a screenwriter and director.

She has worked with Canadian filmmaker and actor Charles Officer many times, including Urda / Bone , which was shown at the 2003 New York Film Festival , and Nurse.Fighter.Boy (2008), which premiered at TIFF in 2008.

Directorial work

Veninger made her directorial debut in 2008 with the release of her low-budget film Only , which was shown at several local film festivals and cost only C $ 20,000 . Veninger's son Jacob starred in the film, the director appeared in a supporting role as his mother.

Her second film Modra , which is about returning to the area around Bratislava and her hometown Modra , was released in 2010, starring her daughter Hallie Switzer. Modra was named one of the ten best Canadian films of 2010 at the Toronto International Film Festival. After the film opened, The Globe and Mail named Veninger the Do-It-Yourself queen of Canadian film .

Her third film i am a good person / i am a bad person was shown at TIFF in 2011. The Toronto Film Critics Association awarded her the Jay Scott Prize for Young Artists.

Her fourth film, The Animal Project , was released in 2014. At the Whistler Film Festival he received the EDA Award from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists . At the award ceremony, Veninger announced the founding of Femmes Lab to promote female directors, which was spontaneously supported by Oscar winner Melissa Leo .

Private life

Ingrid Veninger married the film composer John Switzer in 1990. They have two children, Hallie and Jakob, who are both also artistically active.

Veninger also taught production planning and management at York University in Toronto , Ontario for several years .

Filmography

  • 1984: Hide and Seek
  • 1984: Hockey Night
  • 1984: Islands
  • 1985: The War Boy
  • 1986-1987: Air Waves
  • 1987: Gate - The Underground
  • 1988–1989: heirs to the curse
  • 1989: Doom on order
  • 1989: Sing - The Brooklyn Story
  • 1990: H.
  • 1994: Lullaby of Death
  • 1996: The jury's verdict
  • 1997: Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science
  • 1997: The Assistant
  • 1997: … First Do No Harm
  • 1997-1999: Nikita
  • 1998: Underground inferno: terrorists on the train
  • 1999: Have Mercy
  • 1999: Forget Me Never
  • 1999: The Life Before This
  • 2000: Drop the Beat
  • 2000: Time of Justice
  • 2000: PSI Factor - It happens every day
  • 2000: Steal This Movie
  • 2001: On Their Knees
  • 2001: Within These Walls
  • 2001: Wild Iris
  • 2001: Walter and Henry
  • 2001: Zack File
  • 2002: Gambling, Gods and LSD
  • 2003: Urda / Bone
  • 2003: Auschwitz - Out of the Ashes
  • 2004: Degrassi: The Next Generation
  • 2004: The Limb Salesman
  • 2004: Phil the Alien
  • 2004: Godsend
  • 2005: mom
  • 2005: Neil
  • 2006: Everything Is Love and Fear
  • 2006: Hotel Vladivostok
  • 2008: Only (Director)
  • 2010: Modra (director)
  • 2010: Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
  • 2011: I am a Good Person / I Am a Bad Person (Director)
  • 2013: The Animal Project (Director)
  • 2014: The Best Laid Plans
  • 2015: He Hated Pigeons (Director)
  • 2017: Porcupine Lake (Director)
  • 2018: Before We Think (Director)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Ingrid Veninger  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filmmaker profile: Ingrid Veninger .
  2. ↑ a b c Adam Nayman: Ingrid Veninger .
  3. ↑ Ingrid Veninger .
  4. ^ National Film Board of Canada: Gambling, Gods and LSD .
  5. ↑ pUNK FILMS .
  6. ↑ a b Only Ingrid Veninger - Point of View Magazine .
  7. ↑ Ingrid Veninger: the DIY queen of Canadian filmmaking .
  8. ^ Brian D. Johnson: Toronto critics love 'Monsieur Lazhar' . In: Maclean's . January 11, 2012. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  9. ^ Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize . Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  10. ^ The Animal Project . In: TIFF . Archived from the original on August 17, 2013. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
  11. ↑ Toronto Adds 75+ Titles To 2013 Edition . In: Indiewire . Retrieved August 17, 2013.
  12. ↑ Linda Barnard: Oscar-winning actress Melissa Leo is funding the Femmes Lab, where six female Canadian filmmakers have six months to finish six screenplays. . In: The Toronto Star , January 15, 2014. 
  13. ↑ Katherine Brodsky: Whistler: Ingrid Veninger's 'Ballsy' Request? More Films Made by Women ( en-US )
  14. ↑ Etan Vlessing July 17, 2014: How Ingrid Veninger's 'sisterhood' spawned 6 scripts in 6 months .
  15. ↑ Ingrid Veninger's latest filmmaking journey .
  16. ↑ Ingrid Veninger: Cinema & Media Arts ( en-US ) Archived from the original on September 21, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed August 31, 2019. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cma.ampd.yorku.ca
  17. ↑ A phantasmagorical film with live score ( en-US )
  18. ↑ Crowdfunding Project of the Week: He Hated Pigeons . Archived from the original on February 27, 2016.
  19. ↑ Jordan Pinto October 13, 2015: Ingrid Veninger wings it on He Hated Pigeons .
  20. ^ Toronto Film Festival's Canadian Content to Include New Margaret Atwood Adaptation . In: The Wrap . August 9, 2017. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
  21. ↑ Jordan Pinto October 24, 2016: Porcupine Lake a film of firsts for Ingrid Veninger .
  22. ↑ Cameras roll on Ingrid Veninger's seventh film . 
personal data
SURNAME Veninger, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak-Canadian actress, director, screenwriter and producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava , Slovakia