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LAST FLIGHT HOME:
A stunning verité account of a family banding together during their final weeks with their extraordinary patriarch, Eli Timoner. As he decides to exercise his right to Medical-Aid-in-Dying in California, his daughter, filmmaker Ondi Timoner, documents a family courageously and joyously embracing both life and death.
WE LIVE IN PUBLIC:
Ten years in the making and culled from 5,000 hours of footage,takes a look through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of”, the artist, futurist, and visionary, Josh Harris, to reveal the effects of the web on our society. Director Ondi Timoner won the 2009 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, making her the only person to win twice, for this riveting and cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world takes control of our lives. Harris, called the “Warhol of the Web”, founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also curated and funded the ground-breaking project “Quiet”, putting over 100 people in an underground bunker in NYC where they lived together on camera for 30 days. Before reality television and the explosion of online social networks, Quiet showed how willing we are to trade our privacy for the elusive and often unrealized promise of recognition and connection offered by technological advances. Harris’ experiments, including a six-month stint living under 24-hour electronic surveillance, led to his mental collapse and demonstrated the heavy price we pay for living in public.
MAPPLETHORPE:
An Official Selection to premiere at Sundance 2018, but was re-edited by the executive producers and a new version premiered instead at TriBeca, winning the Audience Award and picked up by Samuel Goldwyn for theatrical release. Shot in 19 days, this is the first scripted film written and directed by award-winning documentary director Ondi Timoner and stars Matt Smith. Robert Mapplethorpe is arguably one of the most important and controversial artists of the 20th century. The film explores the intersection of his art and his sexuality along with his struggle for mainstream recognition, which he attains as he succumbs to AIDS in 1989. Winner of over 10 Audience and Best Feature Awards, the film provides a nuanced portrait of an artist at the height of his craft and of the self-destructive impulses that threaten to undermine it all. This is the original version that was written, directed, produced and edited by Ondi Timoner and chosen to premiere at Sundance 2018.
BRAND: A SECOND COMING:
Brand: A Second Coming follows comedian/author Russell Brand’s evolution from addict & Hollywood star to unexpected political disruptor & newfound hero to the underserved. Brand is criticized for egomaniacal self-interest as he calls for revolution but stays the course with an irreverent courage that inspires a new generation of activists.
COMING CLEAN
Coming Clean examines addiction through the eyes of recovering addicts and political leaders, as they come together to bring the profiteers to justice and rebuild in the wake of the deadliest drug epidemic in our history.
JOIN US
Documents four families, and their pastor, from the moment they realize they were in a cult while in deprogramming, to the rebuilding of "normal" lives, they search to bring justice to the pastor, who struggles with the “betrayal” of his congregation.
DIG!
Takes audiences on a wild ride into the collision of art and commerce through the eyes of The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, focusing on the developing careers and the love-hate relationship of the bands' respective frontmen Courtney Taylor and Anton Newcombe. It was shot over seven years and compiled from over 2500 hours of footage. It won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. and was acquired by the MoMA NY for their permanent collection.
NATURE OF THE BEAST
Ondi Timoner’s first feature-length documentary, (1994) tells the story of Bonnie Jean Foreshaw, a woman convicted of murder and given the longest sentence in Connecticut history, yet praised as a hero, leader, and mother to fellow inmates. It examines how battered women are treated by the American justice system
The Last Mile
61% of California inmates return to prison within 3 years. The Last Mile program at San Quentin Prison helps offenders become entrepreneurs, training them to start their own companies, despite being denied access to computers & the Internet.
OBEY THE ARTIST
Follow Shepard Fairey as he transforms a digital print by National Geographic’s Aaron Huey into a remarkable 12 foot mural in Los Angeles in order to give voice to the forgotten history of Native Americans. Part of triptych of releases from A TOTAL DISRUPTION, this CEA (Chief Executive Artist) series looks at this groundbreaking artist who is innovating his independence and embracing technology in order to magnify his impact on social issues.
COOL IT
In COOL IT (2010) Timoner finds a paragon of pragmatism, best-selling Danish economist Bjørn Lomborg, founder of the Copenhagen Consensus, whose controversial ideas about how to solve climate change provide a roadmap worth examining, even as they disrupt the status quo.
WETALK
WETALK is a new traveling talk show and live event about the women shaping our culture, moving the conversation from #MeToo to #WeDo, by focusing on unlikely combinations of unique women. The mission of WeTalk is to bring together change-makers who are blazing new paths across arts, entrepreneurship, government, and technology to spark new ideas & creations.
The show launched at SXSW and has since traveled to New York for the Tribeca Film Festival. Guests have included award-winning filmmakers such as Lynn Shelton, Megan Griffiths, Kate Davis,Cristina Constrantini, Andrea Nevins, Stephanie-Wang Breal, and Nancy Schwartzman ; ground-breaking entrepreneurs such as Arlan Hamilton, Emily Best, Puneet Kaur Ahira, Jen Consalvo, Melanie Elturk & Bea Arthur ; technologic visionaries such as Megan Smith, Neha Narula and Samantha Snabes; extraordinary civic leaders such as Rabbi Rachel Timoner and Jennifer Cooper and cultural disruptors Christy Havranek and Alysia Reiner.
BIGGER THAN US
The film tells the journey of Melati Wijsen, who decides to go around the globe to meet her peers, young activists just like her, who already have managed to have a huge impact in their fields thanks to their convictions and determination. Melati can feel that the clock is ticking, and that change is too slow. She wants, she needs to understand what is preventing change. To join forces. And to come up with her new plan.
LIBRARY OF DUST
In 2004 the Oregon State Hospital, former site of the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, revealed the existence of thousands of corroded copper urns, each containing cremated human remains. Photographer David Maisel captured these beautifully unique urns of forgotten souls on film. Exhibiting their photos revealed secrets, influenced political decisions and reunited families.
TELEVISION
JUNGLETOWN
In the depths of the Panamanian jungle, an American entrepreneur and hundreds of young people are building the world's "most sustainable modern town"
TED TALK
WHEN GENIUS AND INSANITY HOLD HANDS
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. The internet is a horror film starring all of us — will we step out of line and create something different? Ondi Timoner (two-time Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner) explores what happens when genius and insanity hold hands to create the impossible. In the future, 40% of jobs may be eliminated by technology — but were you working on your dream anyway?
Ondi Timoner has the rare distinction of winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival twice, for “Dig!” (2004) and “We Live in Public” (2009). She currently produces and hosts the only documentary talk show in the world, BYOD (Bring Your Own Doc), which has more than 150 episodes, and has created an online network for entrepreneurs, innovators and artists documenting the top thought-leaders and doers who use technology to disrupt old paradigms, called A Total Disruption.
Timoner has also directed numerous commercials for such clients as Ford, State Farm, the Clinton Foundation and many music videos for artists including Lucinda Williams, The Jonas Brothers, The Vines, OK Go and Fastball, which garnered her a Grammy nomination in 1998. She is a fellow of the Sundance Institute and the Tribeca All-Access Program, and has been a member of the Director’s Guild of America since 2006.
Masterclass
HOW TO MAKE A GREAT DOCUMENTARY
In this two-hour masterclass, critically acclaimed two-time Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning director Ondi Timoner (DIG!, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC, BRAND: A Second Coming, and most recently her new series for Viceland JUNGLETOWN) takes you through the process of creating a great documentary - from choosing a subject to developing your idea into reality. Timoner shares clips from her films to demonstrate tips and techniques that will forever transform how you approach filmmaking - from pre-production through production, to post-production through distribution and beyond!