1. Ondi Doane Timoner is an American filmmaker and the founder and chief executive officer of Interloper Films, a production company located in Pasadena, California.
19 Facts About Ondi Timoner
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Ondi Timoner was born in Miami, Florida, to Elissa and Eli Ondi Timoner, co-founder of Air Florida.
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Ondi Timoner has two siblings, Rabbi Rachel Timoner and David Timoner, who co-founded Interloper Films and has collaborated on several of her works.
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Ondi Timoner attended Yale University, where she founded the Yale Street Theater Troupe, a guerrilla theater ensemble that performed spontaneously in unexpected environments, in 1992.
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Ondi Timoner made her directorial stage debut in 1993 with her production of Sarah Daniels' Masterpieces.
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Ondi Timoner shot her first documentary film, Three Thousand Miles and a Woman with a Video Camera, with her younger brother David and John Krokidas, interviewing people at crossroads and convenience stores while on a cross country road trip.
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Ondi Timoner subsequently filmed Reflections on a Moment: The Sixties and the Nineties, an exploration of her generation's nostalgia for the 1960s and The Purple Horizon, a 60-minute documentary on the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.
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Ondi Timoner created, executive produced and directed the VH1 original series Sound Affects, a film about music's effect at critical moments in people's lives.
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Ondi Timoner co-directed the short film Recycle, a documentary about a homeless person who makes a garden in downtown Los Angeles.
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Ondi Timoner debuted We Live in Public at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
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Ondi Timoner was invited by real estate entrepreneur Jimmy Stice to visit his for-profit sustainability program, Kalu Yala, in the Panamaian Jungle.
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Ondi Timoner filmed her next project around the business venture in 2016.
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Ondi Timoner debuted her narrative feature Mapplethorpe, titled The Perfect Moment in pre-production, at the 2018 Tribeca Festival, where it was nominated for Best Narrative Feature.
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In 2020, Ondi Timoner directed Coming Clean, a feature documentary about addiction through the eyes of recovering addicts and political leaders.
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In 2023, Ondi Timoner completed her documentary about the disruption of finance, The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution, which premiered at SXSW.
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Ondi Timoner has directed All God's Children, which follows Rabbi Rachel Ondi Timoner, a reform rabbi and political activist, and Reverend Dr Robert Waterman, a black baptist reverend and community leader, for several years as they bring their respective congregations, Congregation Beth Elohim and Antioch Baptist Church, together in an attempt to combat the racism and anti-semitism that affects their communities in Brooklyn.
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Ondi Timoner directed The Inn Between about the eponymous facility, the only hospice and recuperative care facility for the homeless in the US.
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Ondi Timoner is the daughter of Eli Ondi Timoner, founder of Air Florida.
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Ondi Timoner married composer Morgan Doctor at the Telluride Film Festival in 2022.