Documentary Filmmaker Ondi Timoner Lost Her Home, Research and Equipment in Altadena Fire: ‘It’s All Gone’
variety.comAddie Morfoot Contributor Veteran documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner and her wife, Morgan Doctor, were working on a film in Rome on Jan.
7 when they got a late-night phone call. It was Timoner’s brother. He was calling to inform his sister that he and his family, as well as Timoner’s 21-year-old son Joaquim and their 86-year-old mother, Lisa, had all evacuated to her home in Altadena. “They all came to my house because the wind was barely even blowing there,” says Timoner. “They had all been evacuated from their Altadena homes.
So, they got to my place, and my brother started making dinner. There was no evacuation order whatsoever, and then suddenly the power went off, and they saw flames, and everybody panicked and left.” Timoner and Doctor were alarmed by the call on Jan.
7 but got on their scheduled flight to Budapest the following day. They were traveling to Hungary to interview a Holocaust survivor.
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