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August 1, 2018
Ondi Timoner

Ondi Timoner

ONDI TIMONER has the rare distinction of winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival twice – for her 2004 documentary, DIG!, and her 2009 top prize-winner, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC. Other award-winning features include: THE NATURE OF THE BEAST (1994), JOIN US (2007), COOL IT (2010) and BRAND: A SECOND COMING (2015). Her 10-hour nonfiction series about the building of “the world’s most sustainable town” JUNGLETOWN (2017), for Viceland was also critically-acclaimed.

MAPPLETHORPE is Timoner’s first scripted feature, starring Matt Smith – which she, wrote, directed, edited. The film premiered at the 2018 TriBeCa Film Festival, where it took home an Audience Award and was picked up by Samuel Goldwyn Company for theatrical distribution.

Timoner’s most recent career achievement awards include: The Rogue Award (Ashland Film Festival, 2015), The No Limits Award (Sarasota Film Society, 2015), The Auteur Award (Kodak, 2017), and the Maverick Award (The Audience Awards, 2017).

Timoner also produced & hosted the digital series, BYOD (Bring Your Own Doc) for thelip.tv, creating 300 episodes in which she interviews top documentary filmmakers.She is the Founder & CEA (Chief Creative Artist) of A TOTAL DISRUPTION, an online network dedicated to telling the stories of entrepreneurs & artists who use technology to innovate the way we live. Subjects include Amanda Palmer, Shepard Fairey, Russell Brand, Moby, Jack Dorsey, Kevin Systrom, Tony Hsieh etc.

Timoner has released two master classes for filmmakers, LEAN CONTENT & HOW TO MAKE A GREAT DOCUMENTARY (IN MY OPINION). In 2014, Ondi gave a popular TEDxKC talk entitled “When Genius and Insanity Hold Hands” about why she tells the stories of “impossible visionaries.”

Current projects include WeTalk, her national talk show celebrating the women shaping our culture across arts, entrepreneurship, government and technology; a feature-length documentary about the Opioid epidemic through the eyes of an artist; and a nature series for Disney Digital. She is executive producing several films and series.
Timoner is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the DGA, the PGA, the International Documentary Association, Women in Film & Film Fatales.

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July 19, 2018
Anjali Nayar

Anjali Nayar

Anjali Nayar is a Fulbright scholar and award-winning writer and director based between Nairobi and North America. Her newest documentary feature SILAS (world premiere TIFF 2017) profiles a network of citizen reporters, using smartphones to expose land grabs and corruption in West Africa.

Anjali’s feature directorial debut, GUN RUNNERS (Hot Docs 2016), about Kenyan warriors turned marathoners, is now available on Netflix. Anjali is also directing JUST A BAND a hybrid documentary project about an Afro-electric pop group that wants to go to space, as well as a number of short creative and virtual reality films.

Beyond film, Anjali founded TIMBY (This Is My Backyard), a suite of digital tools that helps activists report, verify and tell stories safely. She has a Masters from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, a Masters in Environmental Management from Oxford and a Graduate degree from the International Space University in the Netherlands.

Anjali directed ESCAPE, an award-winning branded, digital short for MEC, Mountain Equipment Co-op, the leading retailer of outdoor gear in Canada. In addition, she recently directed a 60-second spot for the San Diego Zoo.

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July 11, 2018
Laura Nix

Laura Nix

Laura Nix is a director, writer and producer working in nonfiction and fiction. Her feature documentary INVENTING TOMORROW premiered in competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. She is a Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Filmmaker, a prestigious award given annually to five women filmmakers based in the United States who have each been acknowledged for their extraordinary careers in the industry.

Awarded the 2017 Sundance Institute/Discovery Impact Fellowship, Nix directed THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING, a comedy about activism and climate change that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Previously, she directed the documentary THE LIGHT IN HER EYES which was broadcast on the award-winning PBS series, POV. Nix was also a writer on the Emmy- nominated documentary CALIFORNIA STATE OF MIND: THE LEGACY OF PAT BROWN.

Her work has received support from the Bertha Foundation, BritDoc, Cal Humanities, COBO Fund, the Danish Film Institute, and the Sundance Documentary Fund.

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June 26, 2018
Laura Gabbert

Laura Gabbert

Documentary director Laura Gabbert’s critically acclaimed films deploy full measures of humor and drama to unflinchingly put a human face on a range of social and cultural issues.

Gabbert directed the feature film CITY OF GOLD (Sundance 2015) about Pulitzer Prize winning food writer Jonathan Gold. The film played theatrically in over 50 markets. The New York Times wrote “the film does as much to demystify and yet romanticize Los Angeles as any Chandler novel.” Vogue Magazine included CITY OF GOLD in their list of the “66 Best Documentaries of All Time”.  

Recently, Gabbert directed an episode of the the hit Netflix show UGLY DELICIOUS and directed a short film for Academy-Award winner Laura Poitras’ Field of Vision. The film titled MONUMENT | MONUMENTO focuses on a unique spot at the US-Mexico border. Currently, she is directing a feature documentary about the collaboration between chef Yotam Ottlenghi and the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the exhibit “Visitors to Versailles.”

She has directed promotional pieces for Room and Board and the Sundance Institute.

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June 26, 2018
Danielle Parsons

Danielle Parsons

Danielle Parsons specializes in making small subjects larger than life. Experiencing her work is like visiting a science museum inside an art gallery inside a meditation chamber. Whether it be floating through pastel lightscapes inside a precious opal, or translating sound waves into mesmerizing patterns on water, Danielle’s passion as a director is to transport audiences into immersive worlds of pure beauty and wonder.

Danielle’s unique perspective stimulates her appetite for innovation in filming with both light and electron microscopes, motorized micro-rigs, as well as close-up macro, high-speed and drone cameras. She has produced and directed content for Slate, Bloomberg TV, BBC, and The History Channel.

Danielle’s fascination with science took shape at Harvard University, where she studied under influential scientists E.O. Wilson and Stephen Jay Gould. She has filmed in many countries, along with the Galapagos Islands. She is a winner of the Nikon Small World in Motion competition for video microscopy. Her films have screened at numerous festivals and outlets, including the Imagine Science Film Festival the Tofino Film Festival and WIRED.

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