Ingrid Veninger
Biography: 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, Screenwriter-in- Residence at the University of Toronto, and Film Mentor at the Canadian Film Centre. Recently she completed her 6th feature PORCUPINE LAKE, produced with the financial participation of Telefilm Canada and Bell Media’s Harold Greenberg Fund with distribution in Canada by FILMS WE LIKE and world sales by OUTPLAY FILMS.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 21, 1968
Deathday: N/A
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Forget Me Never
1999-10-03
Forget Me Never
Overview: Diane 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-03
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Steal This Movie
2000-08-18
Steal This Movie
Overview: Five 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-18
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Harlan County War
2000-05-19
Harlan County War
Overview: A 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-19
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Neil
2005-09-02
Neil
Overview: Neil is the story of a man suffering from agoraphobia among other severe mental illnesses stemming from secret government experiments concerning astral projection.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-02
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Only
2008-09-08
Only
Overview: Tells the story of one day shared between a young boy and girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-08
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Sing
1989-03-31
Sing
Overview: When 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-31
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The Limb Salesman
2004-09-12
The Limb Salesman
Overview: Gabriel 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.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-12
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Hockey Night
1984-12-14
Hockey Night
Overview: When 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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The Gate
1987-04-21
The Gate
Overview: Three 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.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-21
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Out of the Ashes
2003-04-13
Out of the Ashes
Overview: The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-13
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I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person
2012-06-14
I Am a Good Person/I Am a Bad Person
Overview: When a mother and daughter tour film festivals in Europe and decide to part ways, they must confront life-changing choices alone, before returning home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-14
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On Their Knees
2001-10-25
On Their Knees
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-25
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He Hated Pigeons
2015-10-18
He Hated Pigeons
Overview: A 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-18
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Hide and Seek
1984-07-01
Hide and Seek
Overview: In 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-01
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The War Boy
1985-01-01
The War Boy
Overview: The 12-year-old son of a freedom fighter grows up fast in World War II Yugoslavia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Solace in the Dark
2011-09-11
Solace in the Dark
Overview: A retrospective documentary on 9/11 in connection with the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-11
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H
1990-09-28
H
Overview: A junkie couple board themselves in their apartment while they try to kick their heroin habit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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The Other Side of Porcupine Lake
2017-12-02
The Other Side of Porcupine Lake
Overview: The 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
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-02
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Urda/Bone
2003-09-25
Urda/Bone
Overview: Against 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-25
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Mama
2005-01-01
Mama
Overview: A young mother tries to reclaim her son by tap dancing in the streets of Vladivostok, Russia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Hotel Vladivostok
2006-08-31
Hotel Vladivostok
Overview: In 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-31
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Destiny To Order
1990-02-09
Destiny To Order
Overview: A 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-09
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BRUTALISM
2020-04-15
BRUTALISM
Overview: In an alternative universe, before the final improv performance, an awkward college student must convince his partner to follow his script, or else he would fail the year.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-15
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Everything is Love and Fear
2006-01-01
Everything is Love and Fear
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Godsend
2004-04-30
Godsend
Overview: A 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.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-04-30
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Walter and Henry
2001-06-10
Walter and Henry
Overview: Walter 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-10
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1998-02-01
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Overview: In 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?
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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Wild Iris
2001-01-01
Wild Iris
Overview: A depressed woman battles with her mother and abuses alcohol following the suicide of her husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Life Before This
1999-09-15
The Life Before This
Overview: Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-15
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