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Building bridges in Brooklyn, with ‘All God’s Children’ director Ondi Timoner

Building bridges in Brooklyn, with ‘All God’s Children’ director Ondi Timoner

Update: 2025-09-27
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This week, we sit down with director Ondi Timoner to talk about her documentary ‘All God’s Children,’ which follows the partnership between Congregation Beth Elohim and Antioch Baptist Church in Brooklyn.

Ondi walks us through how the project began with her sister’s activism and the challenges of filming within sacred spaces while balancing her roles as both filmmaker and family member. We explore the messy realities of the partnership - including moments that threatened to fracture the alliance - and how both communities learned to thrive together.

We also talk about her evolution as a documentary filmmaker and how she’s handling distribution through her production company Interloper Films.

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Building bridges in Brooklyn, with ‘All God’s Children’ director Ondi Timoner

Building bridges in Brooklyn, with ‘All God’s Children’ director Ondi Timoner