Ondi Timoner
Director

Ondi Timoner Net Worth

about her journey as a filmmaker. Ondi Timoner is an award-winning director, producer, and cinematographer. She has won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival twice, for her documentaries DIG! and WE LIVE IN PUBLIC. Her other films include The Nature of the Beast, Join Us, COOL IT, and BRAND: A Second Coming. Her latest project is JUNGLETOWN, a television series and feature-length documentary. She has also written the script for MAPPLETHORPE, which she is set to produce and direct in July 2017. Timoner has made many award-winning short films, and she produces and hosts BYOD (Bring Your Own Doc), the only documentary talk show in the world. She is also the Founder & CEA of A TOTAL DISRUPTION, an online network dedicated to telling the stories of innovators & entrepreneurs and artists. In 2014, she gave a talk at TEDxKC entitled "When Genius and Insanity Hold Hands" about her journey as a filmmaker.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Director, Producer, Cinematographer
Birth Day December 06, 1972
Age 50 YEARS OLD
Alma mater Yale University
Occupation Film Director, Editor, Producer
Years active 1994–present
Children 1

💰 Net worth

Ondi Timoner, a renowned director, producer, and cinematographer, was born in 1972. With her remarkable contributions to the film industry, she has become a highly respected figure. In 2024, her net worth is estimated to range from $100,000 to $1 million, reflecting her successful career and numerous accomplishments. Timoner's talent and dedication have allowed her to make a significant impact in the world of film, and she continues to be a valuable asset to the industry.

Biography/Timeline

1990

Beginning her film in the 1990s, Timoner has built a reputation in the documentary world, becoming the only two-time recipient of Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize for documentaries (DIG! and We Live In Public) these two works are in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.

2003

In 2003, Timoner had a son, Joaquim, with Cinematographer Vasco Lucas Nunes. Vasco Lucas Nunes died in a motorcycle accident in March 2016.

2004

The film won the Grand Jury Prize 2004 at the Sundance Film Festival, is now part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and was screened as finale of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA's 38th annual New Directors/New Films Festival, at MoMA in 2009.

2007

Timoner also directed the socio-political feature documentaries, Join Us (2007), about the religious cult epidemic in America, using the Example of the Mountain Rock Church in South Carolina, and The Nature of the Beast (1994), a look at the U.S. prison system, and co-directed the short film Recycle, which premiered at Sundance in 2005, and screened at Cannes and in schools worldwide. In 2010, Timoner premiered her fifth feature-length documentary on climate change, Cool It at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010, and released it theatrically on November 12 that year through Roadside Attractions. In addition to documentaries, Timoner has made music videos for The Dandy Warhols, The Vines, Paul Westerberg, Lucinda Williams, Vanessa Carlton, The Jonas Brothers, and Run DMC, among others. She hosts a weekly talk show, BYOD, on Thelip.tv, featuring interviews with top film makers from the documentary world.

2009

Timoner debuted We Live in Public at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. 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.

2013

Timoner founded and is currently directing and producing what has been described as "a portal of cyber-series that take the users on the ride alongside the visionary risk-takers of today– those crazy enough to defy all limits to turn their big ideas into reality," the web channel called A Total Disruption. An interactive video network for innovators and entrepreneurs, she describes it as a "constantly releasing documentary". The channel documents the thought Leaders and innovators from companies like Twitter, Reddit, and BitTorrent who are using Technology to empower and educate; as of April 2013, Timoner edited 50 episodes for seven different web series, based on interviews with approximately 100 subjects (having shot 300 hours of film footage). The seed funds for the project were recently raised on Kickstarter, and yielded about 150% of their $96,000 goal.

2014

Timoner's narrative film debut—a biopic on Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe entitled Mapplethorpe—received a grant through the Tribeca Film Institute’s 9th annual All Access Program. In 2013, Timoner initiated what has been termed a "constantly releasing documentary" via the web-channel called A Total Disruption, a platform presenting cyber-series about cutting-edge innovators who use Technology to "disrupt outdated industries, empower people, and change the world".

2015

In 2015, Timoner's film BRAND: A Second Coming was chosen to be the opening night film at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

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