Ondi Timoner
Ondi Timoner is a grammy nominated American film director and producer. She is perhaps best known for her 2004 documentary, DiG!, which chronicles seven years of the lives of two neo-psychedelic bands, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
She graduated Yale University cum laude and founded Interloper in 1995. She filmed the documentaries Voices From Inside Time about incarcerated women in Connecticut, winner of the Yale Film Prize - and later, The Nature of the Beast, about one woman's heroic journey through the criminal justice system, and winner of the Bettina Russel Grand Jury Prize in Canada and The National Society for Visual Anthropology Commendation, which aired on PBS. She later went on to shoot Dam Nation, set in the oldest living civilization of sub-Saharan Africa about a WTO dam.
She has created and directed for broadcast television the original series Sound Affects, the highest-rated pilot in VH1's history, and ABC's highly successful Switched. Through Interloper she has made music videos and music documentaries for The Dandy Warhols, The Vines, Paul Westerberg, Lucinda Williams, Vanessa Carlton, The Jonas Brothers, and DMC, among others, while simultaneously financing, producing, directing, and editing DIG! – winner of the Grand Jury Prize 2004 at the Sundance Film Festival, and part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Her collaboration with Vasco Nunes brought about another 2 documentaries: Recycle, Winner at the ICG Awards, and presented at Sundance, Cannes, London, and Silverdocs, and Join Us. Ondi has directed commercials for such companies as McDonalds, State Farm, DeVry, the Army and Ford.
Third Floor LLC has just finished JOIN US, a project where Ondi and Vasco's intimate verité style lends itself to telling a compelling story about mind control in the United States. Interloper is currently in post-production on WE LIVE IN PUBLIC, about the millennium in NY and a dot.com millionaire’s human experiment to test the effects of media and technology on the development of personal identity. Ondi and Interloper Films are currently in production on an untitled film about the history and influence of Jamaican Music with Chris Blackwell and L&M Media; LOLLAPALOOZA, a feature-length film about the history of alternative music, politics and culture from 1990 through 2008 through the experience of America’s first touring festival; and an untitled documentary about the video game revolution in collaboration with Mekanism for MTV Films and EA.
Ondi is represented for features by Doreen Wilcox at Anonymous Content and for commercials at Non-fiction Spots.
She has one son, named Joaquim, with Vasco Nunes.
Filmography
- We Live In Public (2008) (Expected release date)
- Players (2008) (Expected release date)
- ONE BLOOD: The History and Influence of Jamaican Music (2008) (Expected release date)
- Join Us (2007)
- Behind Those Eyes (Assistant Director) (2005)
- Recycle (2004)
- DIG! (2004)
- Switched! (TV Series) (2003)
- Quiet (2001)
- Sound Affects (TV) (2000)
- The Nature of the Beast (TV) (1994)