Eline Jongsma and Kel O'Neill (Jongsma + O'Neill) are a married Dutch-American filmmaking team working at the intersection of documentary, art, and technology. They spent 2010-2014 traveling more than 250,000 kilometers through 10 different countries while making Empire, their Emmy-nominated, Webby-honored documentary project about the legacy of Dutch colonialism. Empire was one of the first interactive documentaries to be distributed by POV Digital, the new media wing of PBS's long-running documentary program. In 2015, Jongsma + O'Neill won the inaugural Tim Hetherington Visionary Award for their virtual reality film The Ark, which tells the story of an international coalition of scientists attempting to save the most endangered species on the planet. They are currently collaborating with POV Digital and Submarine Channel on EXIT, a mobile storytelling experience about parenthood and the apocalypse.
Their work has been exhibited by such world-renowned institutions as Lincoln Center, REDCAT and the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, and has appeared at the New York Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and SXSW. They have have received grants and funding support from numerous institutions including the NEA, the European Cultural Foundation, the Knight Foundation, and the Mondriaan Fund. In addition, they are contributors to Vice, De Correspondent, PBS.org and the Creators Project. They also work as immersive media consultants for clients such as The Economist and Film Independent. They live in Los Angeles with their daughter Isadora.