Kel O'Neill

[2] O’Neill made his acting debut in 2002’s XX/XY, directed by Austin Chick and starring Mark Ruffalo and Kathleen Robertson.

[5] In 2009, Jongsma + O’Neill began production on Empire, a series of non-fiction video installations on the remnants of Dutch colonialism.

[11] In 2015, O’Neill and Eline Jongsma won the Tim Hetherington Trust Award, which they used to help produce their follow-up to Empire, The Ark, a VR documentary about the fight to save the Northern White Rhino from extinction.

[12] Shot in California and Africa, the project focuses on parallel stories:[13] scientists in San Diego attempting in vitro fertilization to revive the species—of which only three remain—and workers on Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy guarding the remaining rhinos from poachers.

[15][16] O’Neill and Jongsma’s other work includes Exit: A Mobile Guide To The Apocalypse, which was an Official Selection in the Future of Entertainment section of SXSW 2016.