Ingrid Veninger (born August 21, 1968) is a Canadian actress, writer, director, producer, and film professor at York University.

In the 1990s, she branched out into producing, and, in 2003, she founded her own production company, pUNK Films, through which she began to work on her own projects as a writer and director.

[3] She has written and directed six features films—Only (2008), Modra (2010), i am a good person/i am a bad person (2011), The Animal Project (2013), He Hated Pigeons (2015), and Porcupine Lake (2017)—all of which have screened at film festivals around the world.

[9] In 2002, Veninger collaborated with Atom Egoyan and Peter Mettler, among others, on the Genie Award winning film, Gambling, Gods and LSD.

[11] In 2003, Veninger founded her production company, pUNK Films, and began to work on her own projects as a writer and director.

Her young son, Jacob starred at the film's protagonist and Veninger appeared in a supporting role as his mother.

[14][15] The film received mostly positive reviews, with Norm Wilner of NOW Magazine writing that "the reigning queen of lo-fi Canadian cinema has upped her game without abandoning any of her characteristic whimsy".

[24] The film was based on the script Veninger wrote through her Melissa Leo-funded Femmes Lab, and was also funded in part by Telefilm.