Interloper Films

'''Interloper Films''' is a [[production company]] based in [[Pasadena, California]]. Interloper was founded in 1994<ref name="sidewalk">{{cite news |url=http://www.sidewalkfest.com/2004/film-dig.htm |publisher=Sidewalkfest.com |title=Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival 2004 - Dig! |author=No Author Listed |date=2004 |access-date=2006-10-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060116054020/http://www.sidewalkfest.com/2004/film-dig.htm |archive-date=2006-01-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref> by siblings [[Ondi Timoner]] and her brother David Timoner. Interloper produces [[documentaries]], [[music videos]], and short form media. Two Interloper documentaries, ''[[We Live in Public]]'' (2009) and ''[[DIG!]]'' (2004), have won Sundance grand jury awards. The latter film was co-released by [[Palm Pictures]] and was acquired into the permanent collection of the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in New York City. It showed at [[Cannes Film Festival|Cannes]] and many other prestigious festivals.<ref name="sidewalk"/> ''We Live in Public'' is currently (as of May 2009) touring the festival circuit and will be appearing at many conferences including [[SXSW]], the [[Cannes Film Festival]] and will have a New York premiere at the [[New Directors/New Films Festival]], sponsored by the [[Lincoln Center]] and [[Museum of Modern Art|MOMA]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com/ |title=Home |website=weliveinpublicthemovie.com}}</ref>

Over the years, the company has produced music videos for major artists such as [[The Dandy Warhols]], [[Leona Lewis]], [[The Vines (band)|The Vines]], [[Lucinda Williams]], [[Van Hunt]], [[Darryl McDaniels|DMC]], [[Ben Lee]], [[Vanessa Carlton]] and [[The Jonas Brothers]]. Ondi Timoner earned a [[Grammy]] nomination for a music video she directed for [[Fastball (band)|Fastball]] in 1999.

Interloper Films has created national commercials for [[McDonald's]], [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]], [[State Farm]], the [[U.S. Army]] and [[DeVry]].

The next project on the docket for Interloper is a narrative feature film about the life of [[Robert Mapplethorpe]]. Ondi Timoner is slated to direct the film and she will co-produce the picture with actress [[Eliza Dushku]] in conjunction with Dushku's production company, Boston Diva Prods.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.variety.com/VR1118000588.html | work=Variety | title=Eliza Dushku focuses on photog film | first=Tatiana | last=Siegel | date=2009-02-25}}</ref>

==Selected filmography==

'''Documentaries'''

* ''[[All the Walls Came Down]]'' (2025) *''[[We Live in Public]]'' (2009) *''Join Us'' (2007) *''[[DIG!]]'' (2004) *''The Nature of the Beast'' (1995) *''Lollapallooza'' (work in progress) *''David LaChappelle'' (work in progress)

Short Films *''CNN Heroes:Viola Vaughn'' (2008) *''CNN Heroes:Yohannes Gebregeorgis'' (2008) *''The Greatest Gift: The Story of One Love Africa Schools'' (2008) *''Recycle'' (2004) *''Dam Nation'' (2000) *''Broken: The Story of Mother Tongue'' (1996)

==References==

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==External links== * [http://www.interloperfilms.com Official '''Interloper Films''' website] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20061112023335/http://www.laalternativepress.com/v03n13/feature/antani.php LA Alternative Press Article - Reel Music]* * [http://www.joinusthemovie.com Join Us documentary]* * [http://www.digthemovie.com Dig!]*

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