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Andrea Doane "Ondi" Timoner (born December 6, 1972) is an American film director, producer, editor and entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Interloper Films, a full-service production company in Pasadena. Over the past 20 years, Timoner has built a reputation for herself 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 preserved in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art. Besides releasing films in a conventional manner, Timoner continually releases content through her online video portal, A Total Disruption. Her episode with artist Shepard Fairey world-premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2014 as part of the Chief Executive Artist series. An episode on the musician Amanda Palmer is scheduled for its world premieres on April 19, 2014 at the TriBeCa Film Festival. 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, TX.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SXSW Film Reveals BRAND: A Second Coming as Opening Night Film, Plus Six More Titles )〕 Preproduction has begun on her first biopic, a film about the life and work of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. ==History== Born in Miami, Florida, Timoner is a graduate of Yale University who majored in Theater Studies and American Studies, concentrating in the latter on Film and Literature. Timoner is the sole two-time recipient of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, first in 2004 for her documentary DIG!, about the "collision of art and commerce" via the personnae and relational dynamics of leaders of two contemporary indie bands (The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols), and then in the same category in 2009 for We Live In Public about the work of Josh Harris, an internet visionary who, by very personal example, demonstrated the willing sacrifice of privacy and personal peace that occur in the digital age. Both films were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City for their permanent collection. 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,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Join Us )〕 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.〔() 〕〔(Global Warming and Common Sense. ) New York Times, November 11, 2010〕 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. Timoner's narrative film debut—a biopic on photographer Robert Mapplethorpe entitled ''Mapplethorpe''—receives 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.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hot Docs ’13: Ondi Timoner talks art and entrepreneurship )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ondi Timoner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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