Ari Handel
Ari Handel | |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University, New York University |
| Occupations | Screenwriter, film producer |
Ari Handel is a Swiss-born American neuroscientist, film producer and writer. He is known for co-writing the films Noah and The Fountain with his Harvard Dunster House suitemate Darren Aronofsky and for producing these films along with four other films: The Wrestler, Black Swan, Mother!, and The Whale. He started co-writing the film Noah around 2003.
Early life and career
[edit | edit source]Handel grew up in a Jewish family in Newton, Massachusetts. He was born in Zürich, Switzerland, while his father was studying abroad, but he only lived there for about a year. Handel had an internship for Nova at WGBH, the Boston PBS station. He has a PhD in neurobiology from New York University.[1] Torn between science writing and science education, he eventually became a film writer in an attempt to become a better communicator of science.[2]
References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- Ari Handel at IMDb
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- 21st-century American screenwriters
- American male screenwriters
- Jewish American screenwriters
- Mythopoeic writers
- Film producers from Massachusetts
- Screenwriters from Massachusetts
- Writers from Newton, Massachusetts
- 21st-century American scientists
- American neuroscientists
- Jewish neuroscientists
- Jewish American scientists
- Harvard University alumni
- New York University alumni
- Living people