
Ari Handel
Biography
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.
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. Torn between science writing and science education, he eventually became a film writer in an attempt to become a better communicator of science.
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Acting (2 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Black Swan | 2010 | Executive Producer |
| Noah | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| Noah | 2014 | Writer |
| Zipper | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| Jackie | 2016 | Producer |
| mother! | 2017 | Producer |
| Some Kind of Heaven | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Catch the Fair One | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| The Territory | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| The Good Nurse | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| The Whale | 2022 | Producer |
| Little Death | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Viktor | 2024 | Executive Producer |
| Underland | 2025 | Producer |
| Ancestra | 2025 | Executive Producer |
| Caught Stealing | 2025 | Producer |
| Holding Liat | 2025 | Producer |
| Lowland Kids | 2025 | Executive Producer |

