Ondi Timoner: The Accidental Activist On The Long Life Of Her Personal Doc ‘Last Flight Home’
deadline.com“Somebody told me, it’s never going to end,” says Ondi Timoner, “and I’m starting to believe it.” When we speak, it’s been over 18 months since Timoner flew to Park City for the Sundance premiere of her achingly personal film Last Flight Home for Sundance, and by the usual rule of thumb its journey should now be well and truly over.
The director hasn’t been idle; her follow-up, The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution, debuted at SXSW in the spring, and her latest film, The INN Between, is in full swing.
But the power of Last Flight Home holds steady. In July it made the Emmy nominations shortlist in the category for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, and just last week it was announced that Timoner had been awarded a Humanitas Prize, which comes with a trophy and a cash prize of $10,000.
That money is being put to good use; humbled by the reaction to the story of her severely disabled 92-year-old father’s decision to invoke California’s End of Life Option Act (“A compassionate law we didn’t even know existed,” she says), Timoner will using it to spread awareness of the film’s subject.
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