Ondi Timoner notable work We Live in Public
Ondi Doane Timoner is an American filmmaker and the founder and chief executive officer of Interloper Films, a full-service production company located in Pasadena, California. Timoner is a two-time recipient of the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize for her documentaries Dig! (2004) and We Live in Public (2009). Both films have been acquired by New York's Museum of Modern Art for their permanent collection.Timoner is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the DGA, the PGA, the International Documentary Association, Film Fatales, and Women in Film.2000s
Timoner created, executive produced and directed the VH1 original series SOUND AFFECTS (2000), a film about music's effect at critical moments in people's lives.
Timoner directed, co-produced, and edited DIG! (2004) with her brother David Timoner, which chronicles seven years in the lives of two neo-psychedelic bands, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. The film explores the love-hate relationship of the band's frontmen, Courtney Taylor and Anton Newcombe. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004, is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and was screened as the finale of the Film Society at Lincoln Center and MoMA's 33rd annual New Directors/New Films Festival, in 2004.Timoner co-directed the short film Recycle (2005), a documentary about a homeless man who makes a garden in downtown Los Angeles. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 and also played at the Cannes Film Festival.
Her third feature documentary, Join Us (2007), follows families in their escape from a cult. It premiered at LA Film Festival, winning awards at the Sidewalk Film Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival.
When the Jonas Brothers were signed to Columbia Records, Timoner was hired to film three music videos for the group.Timoner debuted We Live in Public (2009) at the Sundance Film Festival. The film focuses on Josh Harris, an American internet entrepreneur who founded Pseudo.com, a webcasting website that filed for bankruptcy in 1993.We Live in Public won the Grand Jury Prize award in the Documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival and a Special Jury Mention for 'Best Documentary Film Over 30 Minutes Long' at the 2009 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
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