ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Ondi Timoner – Director/Producer/Editor
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. She has created and directed for broadcast television such as the original series 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!, a seven-year project she completed the week she gave birth to her son, Joaquim. |
ONDI'S PAGE
Vasco Lucas Nunes – Cinematographer / Co-Producer
Vasco Lucas Nunes was born in Lisbon, Portugal, and began working in the film and television industry in the early '90s. He has worked extensively in media production in five continents while living in Europe and the US. His early experience in television and film included producing and editing for CNN, and R&D for Dedo Weigert Film in Munich, winner of two technical achievement awards by the Academy. In Los Angeles he completed a masters in cinematography at the American Film Institute as a grantee from the Gulbenkian Arts Foundation in Lisbon. His work as a cinematographer has spanned from music videos and national commercial campaigns, the documentation of the Rebirth of Lollapalooza for the last 2 years, several TV series - such as Nimrod Nation for the Sundance Channel - the recently Tribeca Premiered multicontinental documentary of contemporary break dancing Planet B Boy, an ongoing directorial project with Lyle Lovett, and several other documentary projects, the latest of which is Join Us, premiering at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival. Vasco expanded Interloper into Interloper Films in 2004 with Ondi Timoner, and owns Lusitan, a media company that has put out Recycle, Join Us, and is producing the documentation of Lyle Lovett’s latest album. As a photographer his work is mostly in documentary photography. He is father of a bright 3 year old, Joaquim. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, has garnered international cinematography awards, a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and film selections at numerous festivals, including Cannes, Sundance, Tribeca, and London. He is a member of the AIP (Portuguese Cinematographer's Association), IMAGO (European Association of Cinematographers), and the IATSE’s Cinematographers Guild. |
VASCO'S PAGE
LUSITAN
David Timoner – Co-Producer / Cinematographer
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. Currently, David edits and writes in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife Kelly and two children, Owen and Genevieve. |
TIM RUSH - ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
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Tim Rush has been an important back bone to the DIG! team with his experience in editing and motion graphics. His title sequence in DIG! is most memorable through its simplicity and easily recognizable 60's style. He has previously worked in the Los Angeles post production world, as a trailer and program editor. His contribution to DIG! has brought about his title as associate producer given the many facets of his dedication. |
JEFF FREY- ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
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Jeff Frey grew up in Georgia and
graduated from the University of Georgia with majors in both
Comparative Literature and Drama. He garnered most of his film
experience by working his way up through the A.D. department until he
eventually found himself producing. He is still enjoying the film
making process merely because he gets to facilitate his friends
passions as well as his own.
Jeff has directed, produced or otherwise been creatively involved with many independent film productions including: the feature film OUR BURDEN IS LIGHT (shot on location in Fort Collins, Colorado) featuring from the Foo Fighters and Nathan Webb, music videos for such bands as Twinstar, The Alkaline Trio, Saves the Day and Reggie and the Full Effect. Jeff worked with Vasco Nunes co-producing with Michael J. Katz the AFI short film BAMBO. He has two previously optioned feature film scripts: MURDER MOST GROOVY and KNUMBLAND. He recently finished producing a film project with UBE Media shot in the Philippines and is currently co-producing (again with Mr. Katz) the feature film INN TROUBLE through North 45 Films. |