Ingrid Veninger – Photo courtesy of GAT PR.

“Ingrid Veninger is a true independent, a maker of intimate films that seem born of the moment. Her work is infused with a spirit of generosity that extends to her presence in the film community as Toronto’s queen of low-budget cinema,” said Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) President Brian D. Johnson, film critic for Maclean’s magazine.

“Receiving the Jay Scott Prize for Emerging Talent from the Toronto Film Critics Association is a great honour,” said Ingrid Veninger. “… In 1990, I saw Jay Scott at the TIFF screening for ‘H’. I had a small role in the film and he smiled at me after the screening. This might not seem like a big deal, but it meant a lot to me, because his smile was full of encouragement. Now, I make personal, micro-budget films and I hope they are genuine and provocative… And I am grateful to every person who comes out to see the films in the end, because that exchange with an audience is the point of the entire process.”

If you have yet to discover Veninger’s work, I suggest you see Modra and i am a good person. i am a bad person. She has also help write and produce one of my favourite films: Nurse.Fighter.Boy by Charles Officer through her company pUNK FILMS.

Congratulations most deservedly for her on-going efforts in bringing “independent feature films aimed at a world audience!”