Thursday, April 23, 2009

Ondi Timoner

Ondi Timoner is a American film director, producer and editor. She is the only director, along with her team, to win a Sundance grand jury award twice in the prestigious festival's history.

Her IMDB link is : http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0863756/

He is an Amazing human being and a fantastic Director. Really talented and I had the pleasure of meeting at Sundance Film Festival 2009.

Timoner graduated Yale University cum laude and founded Interloper in 1995, and later incorporated it in 2004 with Vasco Nunes. 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 created and directed for the TV 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.[2]

Timoner recently debuted We Live In Public at the Sundance Film Festival. The film considers some of the darker effects of modern media and technology on our personal identity through an examination of "the greatest internet pioneer you've never heard of", Josh Harris. The dot-com millionaire had an affinity for expensive fascist-themed social experiments that eventually led to his mental breakdown.[3] We Live In Public won the Grand Jury Prize award in the U.S. documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival.[4]


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