1. Ingrid Veninger was born on August 21,1968 and is a Canadian actress, writer, director, producer, and film professor at York University.
12 Facts About Ingrid Veninger
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Ingrid Veninger was born in Bratislava, before immigrating to Canada in the 1970s with her parents.
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Ingrid Veninger got her start in show business in an advertisement for Bell Canada with Megan Follows at age 11.
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In 1989, at the age of 21, Ingrid Veninger branched out into producing by optioning the rights to Margaret Atwood's novel Cat's Eye.
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Ingrid Veninger worked as an assistant director on Atom Egoyan's The Adjuster and produced Jeremy Podeswa's Gemini-nominated music documentary Standards, and Peter Mettler's northern lights documentary Picture of Light.
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In 2000, after working for most of the 1990s as an actress, Ingrid Veninger attended the Canadian Film Centre, where she produced fellow student Julia Kwan's award-winning short film, Three Sisters on Moon Lake, which played at Sundance and the Toronto International Film Festival.
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In 2002, Ingrid Veninger collaborated with Atom Egoyan and Peter Mettler, among others, on the Genie Award winning film, Gambling, Gods and LSD.
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In 2003, Ingrid Veninger founded her production company, pUNK Films, and began to work on her own projects as a writer and director.
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In 2013, as she accepted an EDA Award from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists for The Animal Project at the Whistler Film Festival, Ingrid Veninger asked the audience for help funding the Femmes Lab, a workshop she was spearheading to produce 6 female-directed feature films for $6,000.
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The film was based on the script Ingrid Veninger wrote through her Melissa Leo-funded Femmes Lab, and was funded in part by Telefilm.
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Ingrid Veninger went into production on her seventh feature film on May 22,2018, in Barcelona; the film is tentatively titled Before We Think and will be filmed in several different cities, including Whitehorse, Toronto, Wilmington, among others.
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Ingrid Veninger has been married to film composer John Switzer since 1990.