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Director

Ondi Timoner

Bio

Ondi Timoner -- the only filmmaker to ever win the Sundance Grand Jury Price twice -- graduated from Yale University cum laude and founded Interloper Films in 1994. She achieved worldwide critical acclaim with her feature length documentary, DIG! – which took home the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival (2004). Her short film, Recycle (2005), was a winner at the ICG Awards, and screened at both Sundance and Cannes.

Since DIG!, Timoner has also directed commercials for McDonald’s, State Farm, DeVry, the Army and Ford, which has helped her independently fund her latest film projects, JOIN US, released in 2007, and WE LIVE IN PUBLIC . Whether its rock music, religious cults, or the virtual world of the Internet, Timoner always takes the viewer deep into worlds they would never otherwise explore. Her iconoclastic work is noteworthy for telling stories that unfold over time with incredible access and emotional depth.

In March 2008, Timoner traveled to Ethiopia to shoot THE GREATEST GIFT, a short film for the non-profit organization, One Love Africa Schools. In October 2008, she returned to Africa, traveling to Ethiopia and Senegal, where she directed/produced two shorts for the prestigious annual show CNN: HEROES.

She is currently directing and producing COOL IT, a documentary which explores the issues of global warming from a socio-economic perspective as they relate to the immediate needs of the developing world. Timoner’s narrative directorial debut will be THE PERFECT MOMENT, about the controversial life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe, which she is set to produce through her company Interloper Films in partnership with Eliza Dushku and her company, Boston Diva. Interloper Films is also developing I THINK I KILLED A SORORITY GIRL, a narrative film that draws parallels between the gang life and frat life in South Central, Los Angeles.

Director- Job Description

The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually (but not always) the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would like a particular scene played. A director's duties might also include casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing. Typically, a director has complete artistic control over all aspects of the movie, but it is not uncommon for the director to be bound by agreements with either a producer or a studio. In some large productions, a director will delegate less important scenes to a second unit director 2UD.