LAST FLIGHT HOME

Behind a white picket fence, on an unremarkable suburban street, Eli Timoner is about to die. Just as he lived, he will do so surrounded by his loved ones, on his own terms. Lucky enough to live in one of the few states that allows medical aid in dying, the Timoner family embarks on a mission to help their beloved patriarch exit the world with the same grace and dignity with which he lived.

Through stunning verité footage recorded by his middle child, LAST FLIGHT HOME takes audiences on a moving journey through Timoner’s life during his final days, illustrating a modern day success story built on the power of human connection. As the family opens up to provide an enlightening view of a universal experience, this intensely intimate film also offers a lasting legacy of one man’s life and his commitment to both living – and dying – with agency and grace. 

Directed by award-winning filmmaker, Ondi Timoner, the critically acclaimed documentary LAST FLIGHT HOME is currently streaming on Paramount+.

DIG! XX

An official selection of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, DIG! XX explores the collision of art and commerce through the star-crossed friendship, and bitter rivalry, of dueling rock bands - The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Premiering at MIFF 20 years after the release of Ondi Timoner’s critically acclaimed rock documentary DIG!,  this anniversary edition includes new narration by The Brian Jonestown Massacre's Joel Gion as well as 40+ minutes of never-before-seen footage that brings the story up to date and interweaves many new stories within this timeless tale. 

THE INN BETWEEN

THE INN BETWEEN offers an intimate, all-access look into “The INN Between,” America’s only hospice and recuperative care facility for the homeless. This powerful film, which premiered at the 2024 Woodstock Film Festival, examines how society can humanely and effectively care for its most vulnerable members, both in life and in death, and advocates for people’s fundamental right to dignity and compassion at the end of life, regardless of economic status

ALL GOD’S CHILDREN

ALL GOD’S CHILDREN is the deeply moving story of the largest reform synagogue and the oldest black Baptist church’s unprecedented attempt to heal centuries of racism and antisemitism in their Brooklyn communities by becoming family. An early cut of the film was screened at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, where it received the Harvey Goldberg Memorial Award from the Jewish Film Institute. It world premiered as the CENTERPIECE film at DOC NYC where it was nominated for Best U.S. Documentary, the film follows activist Rabbi Rachel Timoner and Baptist Reverend Robert Waterman as they work to unite their congregations, overcoming their differences and building a path toward harmony.

THE NEW AMERICANS

THE NEW AMERICANS: GAMING A REVOLUTION premiered at SXSW 2023, where it was acquired by Paramount and picked up by Netflix. The film takes audiences on a wild, visceral, meme-fueled journey to the intersection of finance, media, and extremism. It examines the explosive and irreversible impact of our digital future, uncovering a previously unexplored link between the GameStop squeeze and the January 6th insurrection.

WE LIVE IN PUBLIC

A riveting and cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world takes control of our lives, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC premiered at Sundance in 2009, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary, which made director Ondi Timoner the only person in history to win that prestigious award twice. Ten years in the making and culled from 5,000 hours of footage, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC looks through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of” artist, futurist, and visionary Josh Harris, at the impact of social media and the Internet, to predict how willingly we will trade our privacy and eventually our freedom, for the recognition and connection we dearly crave.

MAPPLETHORPE - The Director’s Cut

Starring Matt Smith, and the first scripted film written, directed, produced and edited by award-winning director Ondi Timoner, the MAPPLETHORPE Director’s Cut was Official Selection to premiere at Sundance 2018, before it was pulled and re-edited by the executive producers, who premiered a different cut at TriBeca instead. Still, it won the Audience Award and was picked up by Samuel Goldwyn for theatrical release. Winner of over 10 Audience and Best Feature Awards, the film was shot in only 19 days in 35 locations in New York on Super 16MM and Super 8MM film and provides a nuanced portrait of Robert Mapplethorpe, who is one of the most important and controversial artists of the 20th century. A coming of age story, the film explores the intersection of Mapplethorpe's art and his sexuality along with his struggle for mainstream recognition, which he attains as he succumbs to AIDS in 1989.

BRAND: A SECOND COMING

BRAND: A Second Coming is Timoner’s hilarious and hard-hitting and intimate portrait of comedian/author Russell Brand. It was invited to open SXSW in 2015, the first documentary to do so in a decade, and was acquired by Showtime. BRAND follows Russell Brand’s evolution from addict & Hollywood star to unexpected political disruptor & newfound hero to the underserved. Criticized for egomaniacal self-interest as he calls for revolution, Brand stays the course with an irreverent courage that inspires a new generation of activists - all the while admitting “I am a narcissist, but I am your narcissist!"

COMING CLEAN 

Released in 2020 and recipient of numerous impact awards, COMING CLEAN examines the opioid addiction through the eyes of recovering addicts and political leaders, as they come together to bring the profiteers to justice and rebuild in the wake of the deadliest drug epidemic in our history.

JOIN US

Released in 2007, JOIN US documents four families from the moment they realize they were in a cult and enter a live-in deprogramming facility, through their attempt to rebuild "normal” lives for themselves and their children, and bring justice to their pastor. Timoner also infiltrates the cult to give audiences a chance to hear from the cult leader, who struggles with the “betrayal” of his congregation.

DIG! 

Shot over seven years and compiled from over 2500 hours of footage, DIG! won the Sundance U.S. Grand Jury Prize in 2004 and was acquired by the MoMA NY for their permanent collection. DIG! takes audiences on a wild ride into the collision of art and commerce through the eyes of The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, focusing on the developing careers and the love-hate relationship of the bands' respective frontmen Courtney Taylor and Anton Newcombe.

NATURE OF THE BEAST

Released in 1994, Ondi Timoner’s first feature-length documentary THE NATURE OF THE BEAST examines how miscarriages of justice can be allowed to happen along the path to prison through the life and case of Bonnie Jean Foreshaw - a woman convicted of double murder and given the longest sentence in Connecticut history. Though she was severely battered and acted in self-defense and shot a pregnant woman by accident, and though the man who was chasing Foreshaw and testified to using the pregnant woman as a shield, had attacked two police officers previously - Bonnie Jean Foreshaw was accused of being a drug dealer, put a horse tranquilizer, and no witnesses were called to her defense in a trial that lasted less than a day. Still, she is praised as a hero, leader, and mother to her fellow inmates.

COOL IT

Premiering in Toronto in 2010, Timoner’s COOL IT portrays a paragon of pragmatism, best-selling Danish economist Bjørn Lomborg, founder of the Copenhagen Consensus, whose controversial ideas about how to solve climate change provide a roadmap worth examining, even as they disrupt the status quo.

AMANDA F***ING PALMER ON THE ROCKS

AMANDA F***ING PALMER ON THE ROCKS (17 Min), which follows punk-cabaret icon Amanda Palmer as she hits the stage at Red Rocks Amphitheater as she is releasing her record-breaking $1.2 million crowd-funded Kickstarter campaign, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014 and won of Best Documentary Short at the Sheffield International Film Festival. Palmer (formerly of the Dresden Dolls) carves out a path of fearlessness and independence outside the norms of the music industry.

RECYCLE

Timoner’s award-winning film RECYCLE (6 Min) premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival before screening at the Cannes Film Festival. The documentary paints a nuanced portrait of a day in the life of Miguel Diaz in the hilly Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. The homeless poet is recovering from substance abuse through the philosophy of recycling life. Diaz uses all the thrown-away items he collects to make a community garden in the median of his street while offering his insights on survival and nature.

THE LAST MILE

THE LAST MILE, directed by Ondi Timoner and produced by Interloper Films in collaboration with Conde Nast, premiered at SXSW in 2015 and portrays The Last Mile program at San Quentin Prison which trains offenders to become entrepreneurs, enabling to start their own companies - despite being denied access to computers & the Internet. 61% of California inmates return to prison within 3 years, but this program reduces that number to less than 1%, proving that rehabilitation is possible and giving us a model of how to make it happen.

LIBRARY OF DUST

After premiering at SXSW in 2011, LIBRARY OF DUST went on to win the top prize at Traverse City, Taos and Rincon Int’l Film Festivals, among others. This film tells the story of what happened when a routine inspection of the Oregon State Hospital in 2004 (where “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” was filmed) revealed the existence of thousands of corroded copper canisters, each containing cremated remains of a patient who was shelved away in life and forgotten in death. Photographer David Maisel captured these beautifully unique urns of forgotten souls on film. Exhibiting their photos revealed secrets, influenced political decisions, and ultimately reunited families.

OBEY THE ARTIST

Follow Shepard Fairey as he transforms a digital print by National Geographic’s Aaron Huey into a remarkable 12­ foot mural in Los Angeles in order to give voice to the forgotten history of Native Americans. Part of triptych of releases from A TOTAL DISRUPTION, this CEA (Chief Executive Artist) series looks at this groundbreaking artist who is innovating his independence and embracing technology in order to magnify his impact on social issues.

WETALK

A traveling talk show and live event produced and hosted by Ondi Timoner and sponsored by Dell and Majority about the women shaping our culture, aimed at moving the conversation from #MeToo to #WeDo, by focusing on unlikely combinations of unique women. The mission of WeTalk is to bring together change-makers who are blazing new paths across arts, entrepreneurship, government, and technology to spark new ideas & creations.

The show launched at SXSW and traveled far and wide - from the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC, to AirBnB HQ in San Francisco, to Red Bull HQ in Santa Monica and beyond. Guests have included award-winning filmmakers such as Lynn Shelton, Megan Griffiths, Kate Davis,Cristina Constrantini, Andrea Nevins, Stephanie-Wang Breal, and Nancy Schwartzman ; ground-breaking entrepreneurs such as Arlan Hamilton, Emily Best, Puneet Kaur Ahira, Jen Consalvo, Melanie Elturk & Bea Arthur ; technologic visionaries such as Megan Smith, Neha Narula and Samantha Snabes; extraordinary civic leaders such as Rabbi Rachel Timoner and Jennifer Cooper and cultural disruptors Christy Havranek and Alysia Reiner.

JUNGLETOWN

A 10 hour series by Ondi Timoner, JUNGLETOWN takes viewers into the depths of the Panamanian jungle to find an American entrepreneur and hundreds of young people who are building the world's "most sustainable modern town” and facing life-altering challenges along the way. 

WHEN GENIUS AND INSANITY HOLD HANDS

The Internet is a horror film starring all of us — will we step out of line and create something different? Ondi Timoner (two-time Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner) explores what happens when genius and insanity hold hands to create the impossible. In the future, 40% of jobs may be eliminated by technology — but were you working on your dream anyway? 

Ondi Timoner has the rare distinction of winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival twice, for “DIG!” (2004) and “WE LIVE IN PUBLIC” (2009). She produced and hosted the only documentary talk show in the world, BYOD (Bring Your Own Doc), which has more than 300 episodes, and has created an online network for entrepreneurs, innovators and artists documenting the top thought-leaders and doers who use technology to disrupt old paradigms, called A TOTAL DISRUPTION. 

Timoner has also directed numerous commercials for such clients as Ford, State Farm, the Clinton Foundation and many music videos for artists including Lucinda Williams, The Jonas Brothers, The Vines, OK Go and Fastball, which garnered her a Grammy nomination in 1998. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures, the DGA, the WGA, the PGA, and a fellow of the Sundance Institute and the Tribeca All-Access Programs.

HOW TO MAKE A GREAT DOCUMENTARY 

In this two-hour masterclass, critically acclaimed 2X Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning director Ondi Timoner (DIG!, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC, BRAND: A Second Coming, JUNGLETOWN) takes you through the process of creating a great documentary - from choosing a subject to developing your idea into reality. Timoner shares clips from her films to demonstrate tips and techniques that will forever transform how you approach filmmaking - from pre-production through production, to post-production through distribution and beyond!