Born in Bratislava, and raised in Canada, Ingrid Veninger is a Producer with numerous award-winning credits to her name. In 1991, she produced the Gemini nominated performance-documentary 'Standards' with Jeremy Podeswa, featuring Sarah McLachlan, Holly Cole and Molly Johnson. Since then, she has worked as a producer with Jane Siberry, Jacob Wren, Julia Kwan, Alexandra Rockingham Gill, Charles Officer, Anais Granofsky, Boris Mojsovski, Simon Reynolds and Peter Mettler (Genie Award Winner, 'Gambling, Gods and LSD'). After graduating from Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre, which culminated in the award-winning short, 'Three Sisters on Moon Lake' (TIFF, Sundance, Hawaii), Ingrid joined with Anais Granofsky to form pUNK Films Inc. Together they have collaborated on three features: 'Have Mercy' (TMN, CityTV), 'On Their Knees' (winner of three Black Film and Video Network Awards, TIFF, Dist: THINKFilm) and the retro-future-Gothic-romance 'The Limb Salesman' (TIFF, Goteborg, Sarasota, Vladivostok, Cdn. Dist: THINKFilm International Dist: Shoreline Entertainment). Another closecollaborator is Charles Officer with whom Ingrid has produced and co-directed 'Urda/Bone' a lyrical short filmed in Austria and Germany (The New York Film Festival, Hawaii, TIFF Film Circuit-sold to CBC and Showcase/IFC), 'Hotel Vladivostok' (featuring filmmakers and cast from all over the world) and 'Mama', both recently shot in Russia. Current undertakings include completion of Charles Officer's first dramatic feature entitled, 'Nurse.Fighter.Boy' (starring Clark Johnson-The Wire) produced in participation with the CFC Feature Film Project (World Premiere, TIFF '08); working with Anais Granofsky's on her fourth feature entitled: 'Puja's Bat Mitzvah' (in development with The Harold Greenberg FUND), and an independent feature co-directed with Simon Reynolds entitled: 'ONLY' (World Premiere, TIFF '08). Show less «