Ondi Timoner

January 10, 2024
Film Director

Quick Facts

Ondi Timoner
Full Name Ondi Timoner
Occupation Film Director
Date Of Birth Dec 6, 1972(1972-12-06)
Age 52
Birthplace Miami
Country United States
Birth City Florida
Horoscope Sagittarius

Ondi Timoner Biography

Name Ondi Timoner
Birthday Dec 6
Birth Year 1972
Place Of Birth Miami
Home Town Florida
Birth Country United States
Birth Sign Sagittarius
Siblings David Timoner, Rabbi Rachel Timoner
Children(s) Joaquim Doane Lucas Timoner

Ondi Timoner is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on December 6, 1972 in Miami, Florida, United States. Subsequently, she filmed Reflections on a Moment: The Sixties and the Nineties which explored her generation’s nostalgic for the 1960s as well as The Purple Horizon, a 60-minute documentary that focuses on the March on Washington to support Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. As a senior in college, she would often make films to avoid taking an exam for a final. In the film she made, Voices From Inside Time she filmed interviews with women prisoners, which eventually led the filmmaker towards Bonnie Jean Foreshaw, the basis of her debut full-length film The Nature Of The Beast. The film would later be awarded the Howard Lamar Film Prize for the Best Undergraduate film in the University of Yale University.

Her debut feature film, The Nature Of The Beast (1994) was based around the story of Bonnie Jean Foreshaw (a woman who is serving the longest sentence in prison for the entire state of Connecticut for allegedly killing pregnant women while defending herself against a male) to shed light on the racial and systemic flaws that exist in the justice system. The film was produced by a cameraman for a news channel, however later afterward, Timoner expressed an interest in making her own films.

In 1999, Ondi was Grammy-nominated for Best Long Form Music Video for an EPK she directed about the band Fastball.

Timoner created, executive produced and directed the VH1 original series SOUND AFFECTS (2000), about music’s effect at critical moments in people’s lives.

Timoner was a student at Yale University, where she established the Yale Street Theatre Troupe, a guerrilla theatre troupe that performed on the spot in unexpected settings, beginning in 1992. Timoner was directing her stage debut in 1993 in the production of Sarah Daniels’ Masterpieces. Timoner made her debut documentary movie, Three Thousand Miles and a Woman using a video Camera along alongside her younger brothers David along with John Krokidas, both of who were students at Yale and conducted interviews with people at the crossroads and in convenience stores on an interstate road trip. It was edited by equipment from Citizens Television, located in New Haven.

Ondi Timoner Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Film Director
House Living in own house.

Ondi Timoner is one of the richest Film Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ondi Timoner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Timoner was born in Miami, Florida to Elissa Timoner and Eli Timoner, co- founder of Air Florida, in 1972. Timoner has two siblings: Rabbi Rachel Timoner and David Timoner who founded Interloper Films and has collaborated on several of her films.

Ondi Timoner (born on December 6 1972) is an American filmmaker, and chief executive officer and founder of Interloper Films, a full-service production company that is based at Pasadena, California. Timoner has established a reputation in the world of documentary and is the only person to win the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for her documentary films Dig! (2004) And the documentary We Live in Public (2009). These two paintings were acquired to be part of the permanent collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art.

Timoner graduated cum laude from Yale in 1994, where she majored in American Studies, with a concentration in Film and Literature, and Theater Studies.

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Timoner debuted WE LIVE IN PUBLIC (2009) at the Sundance Film Festival. It shot over ten years and culled from 5000 hours of footage. 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.

Facts & Trivia

Ondi Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ondi Timoner celebrates birthday on December 6 of every year.

From 2011-2017, Ondi created and hosted a weekly talk show, BYOD (Bring Your Own Doc), on Thelip.tv, featuring interviews with various filmmakers from the documentary world, covering over 300 films, many as they premiered at Sundance, SXSW, HotDocs and IDFA.

Top Facts about Ondi Timoner

  1. Ondi Timoner is an award-winning American film director.
  2. She has directed documentaries and feature films.
  3. Timoner won two Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prizes.
  4. Her documentary “Dig!” won the Grand Jury Prize in 2004.
  5. Timoner also won the Grand Jury Prize for “We Live in Public” in 2009.
  6. She has directed music videos for artists such as The Jonas Brothers and Moby.
  7. Timoner founded Interloper Films, a production company based in Los Angeles.
  8. She has been named one of the top ten documentary filmmakers by Variety magazine.
  9. Timoner’s work explores themes of creativity, technology, and human behavior.
  10. She is known for her immersive and intimate style of filmmaking.

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