Twice Winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary (Los Angeles)

Ondi Timoner is an American film director, producer and editor. She is the only director to win a Sundance grand jury award twice in the prestigious festival's history for her two documentaries DIG! and We Live in Public.

Timoner graduated cum laude from Yale University and founded Interloper in 1995. 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, and 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, set in the oldest living civilization of sub-Saharan Africa about a WTO dam.
 
Timoner created and directed for the TV series Sound Affects, the highest-rated pilot in VH1's history, and ABC's highly successful Switched!. With her own company, Interloper Films, Ondi has made music videos and music documentaries for The Dandy Warhols, The Vines, Paul Westerberg, Lucinda Williams, Vanessa Carlton, The Jonas Brothers, and DMC, among others.
 
Ondi is currently slated to direct a narrative feature film based on the life of controversial artist Robert Mapplethorpe.