Ondi Doane Timoner is an American filmmaker and the founder and chief executive officer of Interloper Films, a production company located in Pasadena, California.
[5] Timoner shot her first documentary film, Three Thousand Miles and a Woman with a Video Camera, with her younger brother David and John Krokidas, interviewing people at crossroads and convenience stores while on a cross country road trip.
[6] She subsequently filmed Reflections on a Moment: The Sixties and the Nineties, an exploration of her generation's nostalgia for the 1960s and The Purple Horizon, a 60-minute documentary on the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.
Foreshaw was serving the longest prison sentence in the state of Connecticut for unintentionally causing the death of a pregnant woman, while defending herself against a man.
[5] Timoner created, executive produced and directed the VH1 original series Sound Affects (2000),[7] a film about music's effect at critical moments in people's lives.
(2004) with her brother David Timoner, which chronicles seven years[11] in the lives of two neo-psychedelic bands, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
[14][15] Timoner co-directed the short film Recycle (2005),[16] a documentary about a homeless person who makes a garden in downtown Los Angeles.
[21] Timoner was hired by Ralph Winter and Terry Botwick to make her fifth feature, Cool It (2010), adapted from the 2007 book of the same name following controversial political scientist Bjørn Lomborg.
[26] Timoner was invited by real estate entrepreneur Jimmy Stice to visit his for-profit sustainability program, Kalu Yala, in the Panamaian Jungle.
It is based on the life and career of the controversial portrait photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, starring Matt Smith as the titular artist.
[37] Timoner has directed All God's Children, which follows Rabbi Rachel Timoner, a reform rabbi and political activist, and Reverend Dr. Robert Waterman, a black baptist reverend and community leader, for several years as they bring their respective congregations, Congregation Beth Elohim and Antioch Baptist Church, together in an attempt to combat the racism and anti-semitism that affects their communities in Brooklyn.
[40] A Total Disruption is a web portal of 300 shorts and classes to share origin stories of Internet founders and artists using technology to innovate independence.
[46] Timoner and family were in Washington in early June 2023 to screen and discuss the film at an event presented by the U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen, to advocate for the human right to bodily autonomy at the end of life, and specifically to support legislative efforts to reform the ban on federal funding for medical-aid-in-dying (ASFRA) to ensure equal access to the right in states where it is already legal.