Ondi Timoner

Ondi Timoner is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker whose work
focuses on “impossible visionaries''. She has the rare distinction of winning the U.S. Grand Jury Prize at Sundance twice — for DIG! (2004), about the collision of art and commerce through the eyes of two rival rock bands, and WE LIVE IN PUBLIC (2009), about the loss of privacy online through a NY social experiment created by Internet pioneer Josh Harris over the turn of the millennium. Both films were acquired by New York’s MoMA for its permanent collection.
Since then, Ondi has created award-winning films/series such as JOIN
US, about mind control; COOL IT, about climate change; BRAND: A
Second Coming, about the transformation of comedian/author/activist Russell Brand; the 10-hour series JUNGLETOWN, about an intentional community in remote Panama; COMING CLEAN, about the opioid crisis; and MAPPLETHORPE, a scripted film she also wrote and produced about Robert Mapplethorpe starring Matt Smith (she recommends the Director’s Cut on Hulu).
Along with her team at Interloper Films, Ondi is currently wrapping a feature called THE NEW AMERICANS, which explores the intersection of finance, media and extremism to uncover the explosive and irreversible ramifications of our digital future, which will premiere at SXSW in 2023.
Her latest film LAST FLIGHT HOME, about her father, Eli Timoner’s extraordinary life & intentional death, premiered at Sundance & Telluride before opening theatrically and getting Shortlisted for the 95th Oscars.
Ondi recently won the prestigious Visionary Award for Documentary Excellence at DOC NYC and is an active member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, the DGA, the PGA, the WGA, the IDA, Film Independent, Women in Film, and Film Fatales.