INTERLOPER FILMS is an international award-winning full-service production company founded by acclaimed filmmaker Ondi Timoner. The company develops and produces original feature length documentaries and narrative films, non-fiction television series, cutting-edge web series and award-winning short films.
Interloper Films's catalog of distinguished features includes: DIG! (2004), WE LIVE IN PUBLIC (2009), THE NATURE OF THE BEAST (1994), JOIN US (2007), COOL IT (2010) and BRAND: A SECOND COMING (2015), among others. JUNGLETOWN, their 10-hour nonfiction series for VICELAND about the building of “the world’s most sustainable town,” aired in 2017 to rave reviews.
MAPPLETHORPE, the company’s first scripted feature film, premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival in competition in 2018, taking home the 2nd Audience Award.
Interloper's most notable short films incllude: LIBRARY OF DUST (2011), AMANDA F***ING PALMER ON THE ROCKS (2013), OBEY THE ARTIST (2014), RUSSELL BRANDS THE BIRD (2014), and THE LAST MILE (2015).
Interloper Films’s work is featured in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and has been nominated for a Grammy. Additional achievements also 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).
Interloper Films also produced Sound Affects, a series for VH1 with 13 half hour episodes about music's effect on people's lives. The company produced BYOD (Bring Your Doc) for thelip.tv, creating 300 episodes with top documentary filmmakers over five years. They also produced 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, among others, Moby, Jack Dorsey, Kevin Systrom, and Tony Hsieh.
Current productions include WeTalk, a traveling talk show / live event celebrating the women shaping our culture across arts, entrepreneurship, government and technology; a feature-length documentary about the Opioid epidemic through the eyes of a sculptor who is documenting the crisis to remove the stigma, and a nature series for Disney Digital.