Ondi Timoner

At a time when, however deliberately or consciously, we live our lives in public online, access to our privacy is the new currency of value. Just because you can keep track of your friends via Facebook, post and tag photos on MySpace, and spew out your every waking thought on Twitter - all easily and for free - it's easy to assume it's a good thing. Josh Harris is a man who made a similar assumption. Described as "the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard of," Harris carved a high...Read Full Story

At a time when, however deliberately or consciously, we live our lives in public online, access to our privacy is the new currency of value. Just because you can keep track of your friends via Facebook, post and tag photos on MySpace, and spew out your every waking thought on Twitter - all easily and for free - it's easy to assume it's a good thing. Josh Harris is a man who made a similar assumption. Described as "the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard of," Harris carved a high...Read Full Story

Parker Posey, author Russell Banks and filmmakers Karyn Kusama and Morgan Spurlock are among the jurors for this month's Sundance Film Festival. Actress Posey, whose films include past Sundance entries "The House of Yes" and "Broken English," will be one of five jurors judging the U.S. dramatic competition. Joining her are Banks, producer Jason Kliot, cinematographer Robert Yeoman and director Kusama, whose "Girlfight" shared the top prize at Sundance in 2000. Spurlock, who directed the...Read Full Story

SG Radio We Live In Public / Social Networking Special This Sunday This Sunday (Feb 21st), to mark the VOD/DVD release of documentary We Live In Public , a cautionary tale about what can happen when you over-expose yourself online, we're going geek for a social networking special. The film's multi award-winning director, Ondi Timoner, will be calling in to give us some web world dos and don'ts, and to tell us about the special events that are happening to celebrate We Live In Public going...Read Full Story

Roadside Attractions has acquired U.S. rights to filmmaker Ondi Timoner’s hot-topic doc COOL IT, which will have its world premiere at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. The only filmmaker to win the Sundance Grand Jury prize twice, Timoner trains her camera on controversial economist/political scientist Bjorn Lomborg, who came to prominence with the book The Skeptical Environmentalist (1998), and went on to challenge the conventional wisdom of Al Gore’s AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH with...Read Full Story

TIFF Image: Bjorn Limbor in Ondi Timoner’s Cool It Before it  even premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, Ondi Timoner’s Cool It has been picked up for distribution by Roadside Attractions. The doc takes a look at controversial anti-global warming scientist Bjorn Limborg. Timoner (DIG!, We Live in Public) is a two-time Sundance Documentary [...]Read Full Story

For those of you haven’t seen the amazing rock and roll documentary movie about the destructive relations between bands “ Dig! “, then here’s chance to see the latest film from the director of that film. His topic this time is the story of Josh Harris, Internet impresario who created Psuedo.com. That venture crashed and burned along with many others in 2000. The film explores an intriguing “art project” Harris was involved with in New York where over 100 people lived in a terrarium and had...Read Full Story

The Sundance Channel is set to air the TV premiere of the documentary "Join Us" on the last day of August. The film, directed by two-time Sundance grand jury award winner Ondi Timoner, features gripping stories behind religion and cults. "Join Us" will follow the stories of four families who flee their insular church and the pastor who controlled their lives. It will see the families through a two-week program at a cult treatment facility and back their homes in South Carolina, where they...Read Full Story

The Sundance Film Festival's prizes for best U.S. drama have gone to "Push" — the dark yet hopeful story of a young woman finding her way out of nightmarish circumstances in 1980s Harlem. "Push," based on the 1996 novel by the poet Sapphire and directed by Lee Daniels, won both the grand jury and audience awards. The film version is subtitled "Based on the Novel by Sapphire" to distinguish it from the Dakota Fanning-Chris Evans sci-fi thriller due out next month. Mo'Nique, Mariah Carey and...Read Full Story

Shameless plug time: Jill is featured in Honda's new ad campaign "Into The Unknown" which is scheduled to premiere tonight during National Geographic's Great Migration program. The spots are directed by two-time Sundance Festival winner Ondi Timoner. There will be a short film featuring Jill to premiere at Sundance as well, later in the year. We never thought we'd encourage anyone to watch a TV commercial, but, hey, this is a good one!Read Full Story