Ari Handel

{{Infobox person

| name = Ari Handel

| alma_mater = Harvard University, New York University

| occupation = Screenwriter, film producer

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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

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.hughhewitt.com/executive-producer-co-writer-ari-handel-making-noah/|title=Screenwriter Ari Handel, On The Making Of Noah|date=March 21, 2014|accessdate=March 26, 2014}} Torn between science writing and science education, he eventually became a film writer in an attempt to become a better communicator of science.{{cite journal|url=http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061120/full/news061120-1.html|title=Movie squares up to death: The Fountain explores the roles of science and spirituality in understanding life|journal=Nature|date=November 20, 2006|pages=news061120–1|doi=10.1038/news061120-1|accessdate=March 26, 2014|last1=Marris|first1=Emma|s2cid=178802581}}