Ondi Timoner, David Timoner Rebound After Losing Homes In L.A. Fires

In times of crisis, Timoners stick together.

When the Patriarch of the family, Eli Timon, suffered from a stroke in 1982 – at the height of his career in his field of business such as Florida, the airline that he founded in Miami, was flourishing – my mother Lisa was the one who gathered the joy of her children – Rachel, Ondeen, and David.

“I chose my mother T team (R. As in Timonner), remember. “It is my mother who said in the aftermath of my father’s stroke, when she looks at a 8 -year -old child, a 10 -year -old young man and a 12 -year -old,” will make races together. We’ll be strong together … we will overcome all this, and we will be great and we will have the best time. We team T.

About 40 years after his health, Eli Timonor decided to end his life as permitted under the Law of Life in California. Once again, the Timoners team met to support the ELI decision, and its last days seized in a documentary film nominated for Humanitas. The last trip to the house.

“the reason The last trip to the house Oondi notes, “Is this love and there is this light in the movie not unique to our family. On the death of people in reality and their face, there is this light.”

Since January, Timoners has faced another unusual challenge. When the Eiton fire broke out on January 7 in Los Angeles County, the Tadina was torn, which led to the destruction of the building after the building. Oondi house and David home, one mile, burned on the floor.

“Seventeen people died between his home and my country,” says Onde. Without a quick procedure from David to save his mother, who lived near Iton Canyon, may not explode Lisa Timon.

“I withdrew to my mother’s house and was raining ash, no strength,” David recalls. “There were firefighters with crazy lights and Blin say,” Come on now! Evacuation now! “Everyone was mainly running for their lives.

He managed to safely evacuate his mother with her pets, with the exception of one cat who hid inside the house amid chaos and cannot be persuaded. Within hours, the houses of David and Undi disappeared, and they consumed an indispensable treasures such as artwork by David Kelly’s wife, Ondei magazines, and family children.

“I had a pile of love messages with a tape [Eli and Lisa] “He had written for each other on the pub in the burning house. One of the letters was apologizing for the budget on the first anniversary. I bought this double happiness heart, then broke it in two halves and wore my father aside and wore the other,” says Ondi. Fortunately, Ondi was wearing half of the necklace she inherited from her father.

Onde and her wife were the musician of Morgan vehicle, Doctor, in Europe when she hit fire, working in the last movie Ondi, a mixed documentary with text elements telling a story related to the Holocaust.

“It is legendary [Entertainment]… we were scouting [in Budapest] “On the day when the house was burned,” she says, noting that they later returned to shoot at the building they discovered.

“It was certain that returning there to make this movie, but it was also very very encouraging,” Ondi commented. “It was encouraging to realize that it could meet us as artists and make something, even with all the terrible destruction in our world at the present time, all the no -fire losses. But also, it is clear that we are not the first climate refugees that you will know personally because this is just a beginning to reveal our planet.”

She adds: “From a political point of view, we are in such a terrible dark place and the rise of the right all over the world … We could have been able to be able to be in a position with great artists and make beautiful and hired beautiful pictures, as I think, I think, really important work.”

Timonar has been doing an important work in the narrative spaces and documentaries for 30 years, and sometimes in cooperation with her brother David. When the family dealt with the destroyed fire loss, it was re -collected earlier this month in Miami, where the children of Timon (only Rachel, a rabbi in New York, could not be present; it is currently on Saturday, and travel in South America). The occasion: A retrospective effect of many Ondi films placed in her hometown by Miami Film Festival.

“We do not have one, not two, not three, but four,” the CEO of the festival is noticed James Walli. “So, we are very proud.”

Among the films shown by MFF – The last trip to the house and holes! xxThe last documentary film is an updated and expanded version of holes!Who won the Grand Jury Award for the American Documentary Film at the 2004 Sandans Film Festival. The movie, which explores friendship and competition between the Brian Jonestown Massacre and Dandy Warhols, is one of the greatest music documentaries ever. David Timon As a cinematic photographer and a participating producer at the original holes! He edited the twenty^Y The anniversary of the anniversary.

The MFF also showed the latest documentary films in Ondi Timoner, The hostel between and All sons of God. Agc, sister of Undi Rachel-Senior Pumps in the group Beth Elhaim in Park Delop, Brooklyn-and Dr. Robert Waterman, priest in the Baptist Church in Bidford Stavervend in Brooklyn. Together, the rabbi and preaching the noble task if the unstable task is to collect their gatherings together to build bridges, promote peace, and try to heal centuries of anti -Semitism and racism.

The hostel betweenMeanwhile, it focuses on a unique residence in the Solt Lake City provides care for unbearable people. The project came after Umm Ondi monitored an article on Hospice, published in Los Angeles Times She shared her with her daughter. “It is scout.”

The hostel between Played to a crowded house in MFF. “The crowd felt madly,” says Oondi. “I think people need stories full of hope for peace and society now.”

For Timoners, in Miami, she presented some recovery after a lot of modern loss. “Seeing friends and feeling the warm embrace of our community was great. Miami is really a special place. There are very few common colloquial places in America. Things are very homogeneous. Miami will never become the Middle West … it will always be a special mix of madness,” David says.

He was sitting with the deadline at the Miami Beach’s historic hotel, Onde and David reflected in his upbringing near.

“There are a lot of things about Florida that I feel embarrassed politically, but there is a free spirit,” David notes, and tells his sister that he might explain, “Why are you a rebel with your destiny. It certainly supports the spirit of the rebels.

Oondi and David admits that as teenagers who may have contributed a little in that unimaginable atmosphere. “What do we want to say?” David excelled. “I want a law for restrictions!”

There was a trick to chase the crops that withdrew a day. “You had to get things like street marks, and pick up a group of twins,” Ondi recalled.

We are not talking about the “I Spy” game where you discover something and continue. No, this involves persuading a group of twins Go with themIn addition to removing street marks and denying an opening cover. Ondi: “You had to return him to the party.” David: “Frankly, it could have been a great documentary.”

Their mother did not turn a blind eye to these high school adventures or later, when they became young filmmakers. Like the innocent eye.

“Onde said,“ We ​​are traveling with the band, the rock band. ”I would like to say,“ Oh, this is beautiful, my love, enjoy. ”Remember Lisa Timon.” Then when I saw holes!David was commenting on it. My beautiful son said, I tried everything on the table. Drugs! “Lisa says.” I was very naive. “

“I found my marijuana tube once,” David tells. She said, “What is this? “I said,” Oh, it’s just a sculpture … “was very naive.

The family suffered a great economic hardship after any stroke. He was forced to go out as the Chairman of the Florida Airlines Board, as a result of narrow thinking in that era when it was assumed that the person with disabilities could not manage a commercial institution (one of the members of the board of directors told Eli at that time, “We need to come from the position of strength, and what Lean Bruce thinks. Despite the reflection of luck, Elie and Laza did not pressure the children to reduce their dreams.

“I honestly think that if I lost all my money, I would tell my children,” go to the King’s Law College, or “get a job to pay”, because I was terrified that I would not be able to support them. “But they were like,” everything that makes you happy, I believe in you. “

Oondi achieved her dream of becoming a way out. She is now at work not only on the movie related to the heat, but on a narrative adaptation of her father’s documented story The last trip to the house (The director tells the deadline that she worked on the scenario with her father for 8 years, and reading his current draft on the death bed). After the Los Angeles forest fires hit, Ondi did what Ondi did – I picked up a camera.

“We have made a documentary since then, we are talking to our neighbors who ran for their lives,” Timon is participating. “Looking at Altadena Post-Burn, it is really unusual. You cannot believe it. Nothing is literally left … for this reason I was calling the movie Singlers with fire. Because somehow, anyone who is going through this now- which is unfortunately there is 16,000 families going through this and 50 to 70,000 climate refugees- does not matter. The same looks like. We all have this sludge, which is a type of unilateral and unpopular, but we are also associated with fire … Our lives have turned upside down with the start of the year. “

During this amazing test, lemones can rely on one thing – family bonds. The wife of Undi Morgan, a doctor, the most recent family member, first witnessed that at an irritating time when Elie was preparing to say goodbye.

“It can often emerge the worst in people, not the best, and I found that this family was always strong and fixed, and I was very surprised during this change and tremendous turmoil … the family, it was still strong and narrow,” the doctor says.