Join the filmswelike: Mailing List and receive all of the latest news as well as great discounts from Documentary Take-Out, our online store!
filmswelike
24 Mercer Street
Toronto, ON
M5V 1H3
ph#1: 416.782-5697
ph#2: 416-971-9131
fx: 416-971-6014
|
)
|
|
DIG!: About the Filmmakers
|
Director/Producer/Editor: ONDI TIMONER
|
 Sundance winner and Grammy-nominated director/producer Ondi Timoner graduated Yale University cum laude and founded INTERLOPER in 1994. She filmed the documentaries “Voices From Inside Time” about incarcerated women in Connecticut, winner of the Yale Film Prize - and later, “The Nature of the Beast,” about one woman’s heroic journey through the criminal justice system, winner of the Bettina Russel Grand Jury Prize in Canada and The National Society for Visual Anthropology Commendation, which aired on PBS. She later went on to shoot “Dam Nation,” shot in the oldest living civilization of sub-Saharan Africa about a WTO dam.
For broadcast television, Ondi has created and directed such original series as “Sound Affects” for VH1 – the highest-rated pilot in VH1’s history, and ABC’s highly successful “Switched.” Ondi Timoner’s passion for the underdog is only equaled by her passion for music. Through INTERLOPER she has made music videos and music documentaries for The Dandy Warhols, Dave Koz, Vanessa Carlton, The Vines, Paul Westerberg and Lucinda Williams, among others, while simultaneously financing, producing, directing, and editing “DIG!” She has written two feature length narrative pieces, and directed one narrative short, entitled “Recycle.” Ondi’s intimate verité style has an immediacy that permeates “DIG!,” winner of the grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, a seven-year project she completed the week she gave birth to her son, Joaquim.
|
Cinematographer / Co-Producer: VASCO LUCAS NUNES
|
 Vasco Lucas Nunes was born in Lisbon, Portugal, and began working in the film and television industry in the early 90’s. He has worked extensively in documentaries and commercials on four continents, while living in Europe and the United States. Vasco graduated magna cum laude from his film bachellor degree, and while in school, Vasco honed his television and broadcasting skills as a producer and editor for CNN. He also worked for international promo and documentary house 7ate9 Creative, including work on the feature documentary “Jary” shot in the Brazilian Amazon.
Since arriving to Los Angeles he has obtained a masters degree in cinematography at the American Film Institute, and started to focus on music media and narrative film. His narrative work includes several shorts, most recently “Bamboo” by Todd Levin, starring Ted Danson, Robert Wagner, and Zoey Deschanel. His work with Interloper and Ondi Timoner on music videos and feature documentaries for artists like The Vines, Dave Koz, David Lee Roth, Vanessa Carlton, and The Dandy Warhols, is complemented with his involvement as a cinematographer and co-producer on “DIG!.” He also co-directed and photographer “Recycle”, winner of the 2004 International Cinematographers Showcase, and showcase selected to the Cannes 2004 Film Festival. He is the father of a newborn son, Joaquim.
|
Co-Producer / Cinematographer: DAVID TIMONER
|
 David Timoner's work in film began as an undergraduate at Yale, where he teamed up with his sister Ondi, producing and editing several documentaries and experimental films. After school, David joined Ondi in Los Angeles, where together they founded INTERLOPER, a production company that created music-related documentaries, independent films and original screenplays. In 1996, David and Ondi began shooting “DIG!”
Over the next few years, David produced and edited a number of short and long form music videos with Ondi, one of which, “Fastball: They Wanted The Highway,” was nominated for a Grammy Award. In 2001, David edited the feature documentary, “Welcome to the Club: The Women of Rockabilly,” for ITVS/ PBS, which received a Grammy nomination in 2001. Recently, he served as a contributing editor on the feature documentary “Sunset Story,” which won the audience award at the 2003 Los Angeles Film Festival. Currently, David is editing reality television and commercials.
He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, son and new baby.
|
|
