Ondi Timoner

About Ondi Timoner

Who is it?: Director, Producer, Cinematographer
Birth Day: December 06, 1972
Alma mater: Yale University
Occupation: Film Director, Editor, Producer
Years active: 1994–present
Children: 1

Ondi Timoner

Ondi Timoner was born on December 06, 1972, is Director, Producer, Cinematographer. ONDI TIMONER has the rare distinction of winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival twice - for her 2004 documentary, DIG!, about the collision of art & commerce through the star-crossed rivalry between two bands, and her 2009 top prize-winner, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC, about Internet visionary Josh Harris. Both films were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York for their permanent collection. Her other award-winning features include The Nature of the Beast (1994), Join Us (2007), COOL IT(2010) and BRAND: A Second Coming (2015), which opened SXSW in 2015.Her latest project is JUNGLETOWN, a critically acclaimed television series and feature-length documentary which follows the building of "the world's most sustainable modern town" through the eyes of the young adults who, facing climate disaster and an overly wired world, are moving to the Panamanian jungle. It will premiere on VICELAND on March 28, 2017. She has also written the script for MAPPLETHORPE, the story of controversial visionary photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, which she is set to produce and direct in July 2017.Timoner has made many award-winning short films. Her notable shorts include "Library of Dust" (2011), about the missing cremated remains of thousands of patients at The Oregon State Mental Hospital, which won Traverse City, Seattle, Taos and International Film Festival of Puerto Rico, "Amanda F-ing Palmer on the Rocks" (2014), which won the Sheffield Film Festival after premiering at Tribeca Film Festival, "Obey the Artist" about Shepard Fairey (2013) and "The Last Mile" (2015) about a tech incubator inside San Quentin prison - both of which premiered at SXSW.Timoner has produced and hosted BYOD (Bring Your Own Doc), the only documentary talk show in the world, with over 250 episodes covering over 350 films and festivals since 2011. She is also the Founder & CEA (Chief Executive Artist) of A TOTAL DISRUPTION, an online network dedicated to telling the stories of innovators & entrepreneurs and artists who are using technology to change the way we live. Timoner serves on the National Board of the DGA and is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. In 2014, Ondi gave a talk at TEDxKC entitled "When Genius and Insanity Hold Hands"
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Ondi Timoner was born in the Year of the Rat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rat are quick-witted, clever, charming, sharp and funny. They have excellent taste, are a good friend and are generous and loyal to others considered part of its pack. Motivated by money, can be greedy, is ever curious, seeks knowledge and welcomes challenges. Compatible with Dragon or Monkey.

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1990

Beginning her film in the 1990s, Timoner has built a reputation in the documentary world, becoming the only two-time recipient of Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize for documentaries (DIG! and We Live In Public) these two works are in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.

2003

In 2003, Timoner had a son, Joaquim, with Cinematographer Vasco Lucas Nunes. Vasco Lucas Nunes died in a motorcycle accident in March 2016.

2004

The film won the Grand Jury Prize 2004 at the Sundance Film Festival, is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and was screened as finale of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA's 38th annual New Directors/New Films Festival, at MoMA in 2009.

2007

Timoner also directed the socio-political feature documentaries, Join Us (2007), about the religious cult epidemic in America, using the Example of the Mountain Rock Church in South Carolina, and The Nature of the Beast (1994), a look at the U.S. prison system, and co-directed the short film Recycle, which premiered at Sundance in 2005, and screened at Cannes and in schools worldwide. In 2010, Timoner premiered her fifth feature-length documentary on climate change, Cool It at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010, and released it theatrically on November 12 that year through Roadside Attractions. In addition to documentaries, Timoner has made music videos for The Dandy Warhols, The Vines, Paul Westerberg, Lucinda Williams, Vanessa Carlton, The Jonas Brothers, and Run DMC, among others. She hosts a weekly talk show, BYOD, on Thelip.tv, featuring interviews with top film makers from the documentary world.

2009

Timoner debuted We Live in Public at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. The film considers some of the darker effects of modern media and Technology on personal identity through an examination of "the greatest internet pioneer you've never heard of", Josh Harris. The dot-com millionaire was referred to by reviewer Laurie Heuston as "a '90s dot-com millionaire who created fascist-themed, social experiments," endeavors that led eventually led to Harris' mental breakdown and financial downfall.

2013

Timoner founded and is currently directing and producing what has been described as "a portal of cyber-series that take the users on the ride alongside the visionary risk-takers of today– those crazy enough to defy all limits to turn their big ideas into reality," the web channel called A Total Disruption. An interactive video network for innovators and entrepreneurs, she describes it as a "constantly releasing documentary". The channel documents the thought Leaders and innovators from companies like Twitter, Reddit, and BitTorrent who are using Technology to empower and educate; as of April 2013, Timoner edited 50 episodes for seven different web series, based on interviews with approximately 100 subjects (having shot 300 hours of film footage). The seed funds for the project were recently raised on Kickstarter, and yielded about 150% of their $96,000 goal.

2014

Timoner's narrative film debut—a biopic on Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe entitled Mapplethorpe—received a grant through the Tribeca Film Institute’s 9th annual All Access Program. In 2013, Timoner initiated what has been termed a "constantly releasing documentary" via the web-channel called A Total Disruption, a platform presenting cyber-series about cutting-edge innovators who use Technology to "disrupt outdated industries, empower people, and change the world".

2015

In 2015, Timoner's film BRAND: A Second Coming was chosen to be the opening night film at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

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