Oscilloscope Laboratories Looks To July 29 As The Street Date For Both Blu-ray And DVD Editions Of Documentary Filmmaker Ondi Timoner's Dig! XX

Oscilloscope Laboratories say it is double-feature time on July 29 with the release of documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner’s Dig! XX and his original film, Dig!, is included as a bonus.

Dig!, Ondi Timoner’s first feature-length documentary, made its debut at Sundance in January of 2004.  This was a seven-year effort on her part that found its beginnings when she graduated from Yale and asked the question: “What happens when art and industry meet?”

In her interview session at the kickoff of Sundance with Dan Nailen of The Salt Lake Tribute, she tells of how she started tracking ten emerging rock bands, but eventually narrowed down the filmmaking process to just Anton Newscombe, the leader of Brian Jonestown Massacre, and his rival (and friend) Courtney Taylor of the Dandy Warhols.  Seven years later Timoner had close to 1,500 hours-worth of footage, which had to be organized into a coherent narrative and pared down to under two hours.   Quite the task!

We learn that Timoner financed the entire filmmaking journey herself, doing music industry and television gigs between sessions with the two groups as they went in opposite directions.   She started when she was 23 and arrived at Sundance a thirty-year-old with a new born son … it was time to show her film to an audience for better or for worse.

The result: Dig! won the Grand Jury Prize in the Documentary category.   The film then went on the road, playing the festival circuit, had a limited theatrical showcase in October of 2004 and then was back out on the road for another full year of festival screenings.

In the years that followed, Timoner’s career flourished with the likes of Coming Clean, Mapplethorpe, All God’s Children, an Emmy-nomination for Last Flight Home and more.   Last year, she lost her home to the Southern California fire storms, finding her Sundance award in the burned-out rubble … the Dig! footage was safe at her office.

After 20 years, Timoner felt it was time to “finish” her film, she added in some missing pieces and updated it with a “where are they now” retrospective … the result is Dig! Xx.

This is the O’Scope double feature on both Blu-ray and DVD this July 29.

Bonus goodies include interviews with Ondi Timoner and her brother David (a film editor by trade and three-time Emmy nominee for his work on Dancing with the Stars), a video session with Rolling Stone feature writer David Fear, a live performance from Sundance and a “Meet the Artist” session at Sundance’24 … plus bonus scenes.