Ari Handel
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Ari Handel is an 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 three other films; The Wrestler, Black Swan and Mother!. He started co-writing the film Noah around 2003.
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
- ^ "Screenwriter Ari Handel, On The Making Of Noah". 2014-03-21. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
- ^ "Movie squares up to death: The Fountain explores the roles of science and spirituality in understanding life". 2006-11-20. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
External links
- Ari Handel at IMDb
- 21st-century American writers
- American film producers
- American neuroscientists
- American male screenwriters
- Harvard University alumni
- Jewish American scientists
- Jewish American screenwriters
- Living people
- Mythopoeic writers
- New York University alumni
- Writers from Newton, Massachusetts
- People from Zürich
- Screenwriters from Massachusetts
- Jewish neuroscientists