Industry Talks 2.0 with Motion and Ingrid Veninger
York University Motion Media Studio (YUMMS) is proud to present the final INDUSTRY TALKS event of the year, featuring award-winning writer, producer, poet, and emcee MOTION in conversation with filmmaker and YUMMS Director INGRID VENINGER. This special event offers students and emerging creatives the opportunity to engage with industry professionals, gain valuable insights into film and television, and network over refreshments! Free and open to all!
Moderated by: Ingrid Veninger
Guest Speaker: Motion
Date: Thursday, March 27
Time: 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location: York U Motion Media Studio (777 Kipling Ave, Toronto M8Z 5Z4)
Free. All welcome.
RSVP: yumms@yorku.ca. Registration required for entry.
This event is generously supported by the York U Motion Media Studio, Connected Minds, OYA Black Arts Coalition, and CineCares at Cinespace.
SPECIAL GUEST: MOTION
Award-winning screenwriter, playwright, poet and emcee. Her work has been featured across Canada, the U.S, Caribbean, Europe and Africa. She is a writer and Supervising Producer on TV series Coroner (CBC/CW), Diggstown (CBC/FOX) and The Porter (CBC/BET), and co-writer of the Canadian Academy Screen Award-winning feature film Akilla’s Escape with director Charles Officer, which premiered at TIFF 2020. She is also a writer and Co-Executive Producer on Revenge of the Black Best Friend (CBC Gem). She is an alumna of the Canadian Film Centre, writer of Oraltorio: A Theatrical Mixtape, author of poetry collections Motion in Poetry and 40 Dayz (Women’s Press), and creator and Course Director of Griots to Emcees: Culture, Performance & Spoken Word at York University.
HOST: INGRID VENINGER
Born in Bratislava, raised in Canada, Ingrid is a tenured Associate Professor at York University, in the department of Cinema and Media Arts. Writer/Director of 8 features, her films have premiered at TIFF, Rotterdam, Slamdance, Whistler, Rome, Hot Docs, MoMA, amongst others. With retrospectives of her work in Ottawa at the Canadian Film Institute, and Santiago, Chile at FEMCine, Ingrid has 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. Her most recent feature, CROCODILE EYES, premieres at the Canadian Film Festival in Toronto on March 28th at 4:30pm (Scotiabank Theatre, 259 Richmond St. W.)
