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Sixth Annual Festival

06:00 min
Documentary
Director: Vasco Lucas Nunes and Ondi Timoner
Producer: Vasco Lucas Nunes and Ondi Timoner

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Vasco Lucas Nunes, Director/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 documentaries and commercials in four continents while living in Europe and the US. His previous experience in television and film includes producing and editing for CNN while finishing his film bachelors degree, producing and shooting for the international promo and documentary house 7ate9 Creative, including the feature documentary Jari shot in the Brazilian Amazon.

Since arriving in Los Angeles, he finished a masters in cinematography at the American Film Institute, and started to focus on music and narrative film. His fiction cinematography work includes several shorts, most recently Bamboo by Todd Levin, starring Ted Danson, Robert Wagner, and Zoey Deschannel. His documentary work includes three other feature docs. He won the cinematography prize at the 2004 International Cinematographer’s Guild Showcase.

His work with Ondi Timoner on music videos and feature documentaries for artists like The Vines, Dave Koz, David Lee Roth, Vanessa Carlton, and The Dandy Warhols, was complemented with his involvement as a cinematographer and co-producer on DIG! Winner of the Grand Jury Prize of the Sundance Film Festival 2004, and now part of the permanent collection of the MoMA. He is currently working on a myriad of fiction, music and documentary projects, including Ondi Timoner’s The Mother of Invention: the History of Jamaican Music.

Ondi Timoner, Director/Producer

Ondi Timoner won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for DIG!. The 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 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 story 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 is currently slated to direct several feature length fiction and non-fiction projects.