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Years active
  
2005-current

Name
  
Ari Sandel


Role
  
Filmmaker

Upcoming movie
  
Monster High

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Full Name
  
Ari Devon Sandel

Born
  
September 5, 1974 (age 49) (
1974-09-05
)

Occupation
  
Film director and screenwriter

Awards
  
Academy Award for Best Short Film (Live Action)

Movies
  
The Duff, West Bank Story, Wild West Comedy Show: 30, Monster High

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Ari Devon Sandel (born September 5, 1974) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the short film, West Bank Story (2005), which won the 2006 Academy Award in the category Best Live Action Short Film.

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Sandel was born and raised in Calabasas, California, the son of Kathy (Hale) and Dan Sandel. His father is Israeli and his mother is American. He is Jewish. He studied Media Arts at the University of Arizona in Tucson where he also received a special certificate in Middle Eastern Studies. He went on to earn his Directing M.F.A. from the University of Southern California's school of Cinema-Television. West Bank Story premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has screened at over one hundred fifty film festivals worldwide, winning prizes from 30.

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Sandel also directed a 2006 documentary, Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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In addition to film making, Sandel has also traveled in Europe, Asia, South America, and extensively throughout the Middle East including Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Turkey, and Dubai and is very involved with various political organizations with interests in the region.

In 2015, Sandel's feature film directorial debut, teen comedy The DUFF, was released in theaters.

He is also slated to direct the upcoming live-action Monster High film adaption.

Feature films

  • The DUFF (2015)
  • When We First Met (2017)
  • Short films

  • West Bank Story (2005)
  • Documentaries

  • Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland (2006)
  • References

    Ari Sandel Wikipedia