INGRID VENINGER holds an MFA from York University and has been a full-time member of AMPD (School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design) in the department of Cinema & Media Arts since 2019. In 2023, Ingrid became Director of the York University Motion Media Studio, a 6,000 sq. ft, cutting-edge film studio in the heart of Cinespace’s Kipling facility, a partnership offering unique experiential education opportunities to York film and media students.Born in Bratislava and raised in Canada, Ingrid has been celebrated as “the DIY queen of Canadian filmmaking” (Liam Lacey, The Globe and Mail). She has produced fifteen feature films with premieres at TIFF, Rotterdam, Locarno, Busan, Slamdance, Whistler, Rome, Hot Docs, Karlovy Vary and MoMA in New York. With retrospectives of her work in Ottawa at the Canadian Film Institute and in Santiago, Chile at FEMCine, Ingrid received the WIFTS International Visionary Award, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists EDA Award for “Best Director” and the Jay Scott Prize awarded by the Toronto Film Critics Association. A member of the Directors Guild of Canada and participant in the inaugural TIFF Studio, Berlinale Talents, and Rotterdam Producer’s Lab, Ingrid has been a mentor at the Canadian Film Centre and Screenwriter-in-Residence at the University of Toronto. An advocate for gender parity, Ingrid initiated the pUNK Films Femmes Lab in 2014 to foster narrative feature films written and directed by Canadian women, sponsored by Academy Award winner Melissa Leo. On April 1, 2020, she launched a collaborative feature film project, ONE(NINE) wherein 9 women filmmakers from around the world (China, USA, Germany, Spain, South Africa, and across Canada) co-created an 80-minute film in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2024, Ingrid will complete her 8th feature, CROCODILE EYES, and will embark on the development of her 9th feature as writer/director/producer. The project will be titled: FERO.Research interests: DIY-based methodologies, collective creation, authentic leadership, feminist film, hybrid cinema and new pedagogical modalities.“Ingrid Veninger is a full-service cinephile who writes, produces, acts, directs, and has even worked as cinematographer and production designer. Canadian film would be less interesting without her.” Richard Crouse