Jonni Peppers
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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”.
Known For
Fionna and Cake – with the help of the former Ice King, Simon Petrikov - embark on a multiverse-hopping adventure and journey of self-discovery. All the while a powerful new antagonist determined to track them down and erase them from existence, lurks in the shadows.
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake
GO! Cartoons is a series of animated shorts created by Fred Seibert and produced by Frederator Studios and Sony Pictures Animation. GO! Cartoons is Frederator Studios' sixth cartoon "incubator" series since 1998, featuring unique voices in short animated films, meant to introduce original characters and animation creators.
Go! Cartoons
A cat named Penny living in a desensitized, unstable world has to find a new job after she gets fired in order to make her dad proud.
Catopolis
Getting an internship at NASA just to find out that space is fake on the first day, Barber has to navigate their family life, a cult preacher dad and complicated friendships in search of meaning and belonging.
Barber Westchester
A short film about a little pink boy named Stilton.
Stilton's in Charge
On an isolated cacti farm, three stressed out birds ask a cowgirl to help stop the elusive Ax-Man.
Spell of the West
After receiving a VHS tape claiming she's a disciple of an alien species known as the "True Mothers", Amy joins a local UFO cult, donning the name Celisse and befriending a number of other members while under the watch of the cult's peculiar founder, Ascensia.
The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascensia
Wasteland is a five-part anthology film that deals with isolation, mental illness, and the subjectivity of reality. Each of the five parts can be watched individually, but when viewed in sequence, each story brings out a more interesting and distinct context to its respective pieces.
Wasteland
A capstone film building upon Jonni Peppers's "The Blindfold" series that will focus on a mythic sci-fi story mentioned in passing in the previous projects.
The Cone Layer
A 10 episode series about a bunch of different people who live in a little town.
Secrets and Lies in a Town of Sinners
She's a people pleaser. She's insecure. She wants nothing more than to have clear skin. Her life changes drastically when she wishes on a fallen eyelash and her wish is granted: she has the clearest goddamn skin she's ever had. When word gets out that Anagha has magic eyelashes, she's exploited for them by her school, her community, and eventually the government. She battles the weight of the world with the weight of being a middle schooler.
Local Middle Schooler
A group of Asian-American art students start to critically examine their identities while realizing the institution they’re in systematically excludes them.
White Person
A cat leaves his life as a pet to get a job in the big city.
Cat City
Lilith, performer for a children's show called The Scrumbos, struggles with her job, mental illnesses and relationships.
Goodbye Forever Party
The universe is waking up to itself, prophets are receiving visions, and God-defying towers formed in hedonistic abundance are toppling over. There is an aura of pathetic surrender surrounding you. Armies formed from eating scraps emerge, ready for battle, with powerful weapons fashioned from air, through the effort of their sheer will, realizing that the foe isn't the force it seemed. The fourth film in Jonni Pepper-GoLions' "The Blindfold" series, which includes her films "Wasteland", "Secrets and Lies in a Town of Sinners", and "Barber Westchester". This film sets up the upcoming finale to the series, "The Cone Layer".
Take Off The Blindfold, Adjust Your Eyes, Look In The Mirror, See The Face Of Your Mother
Surrealist narrative following a little pink character through a pastel wasteland interacting with eccentric individuals and ominous experiences. With encounters including an odd coffee shop performer, an unstable traveler, and a pet dog, he slowly begins to feel a shift in his worldview.
The Earth Is Flat
A dog wearing the mask of a human face is arrested and sentenced to death.
mask dog
The sequel to Stilton’s in Charge/the finale to the Stilton series. 7 years after growing up and moving to Florida, Stilton lives a very unhappy adult life. As his psyche crumbles, so too does his reality seem to be breaking down.
Stilton's in Charge 2
Dr. Sam Mulaney is driven into a state of panic and depression when her patients experience a bizarre infection.
Dr. Sam Mulaney's Burden
The fourth installment in Jonni Phillips' Wasteland Series.