Biography:

Jonni Pepper-GoLions is a filmmaker from California. Over the course of her career, Jonni has created 6+ hours of hand drawn animation work, including multiple animated features. Jonni is supported mainly by Patreon and freelance work. Jonni received her BFA from California Institute of the Arts. There, she finished Wasteland, an anthology of 5 thematically related stories that take place in the same location, concluding with the acclaimed film The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascensia. In 2020, she created an animated miniseries, Secrets and Lies in a Town of Sinners. In 2022, she completed a full-length feature film Barber Westchester. These projects are a part of the same series, The Blindfold, which has 2 more installments currently in production, Take Off The Blindfold, Adjust Your Eyes, Look In The Mirror, See The Face Of Your Mother, and the finale The Cone Layer. In 2022, Ottawa International Animation Festival held a retrospective of her work, included her in the jury, and programmed Barber Westchester. Barber was featured at New Chitose Airport Animation Festival in Japan, where it received an award from acclaimed anime director Ayumu Watanabe, who called it “the most important discovery of the decade”.