Years active 2007–present TV shows The River Known for Paranormal Activity | Role Film director Name Oren Peli | |
Born January 21, 1970 (age 54) ( 1970-01-21 ) Ramat Gan, Israel Occupation Film director, producer, screenwriter Nominations Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature Movies Paranormal Activity, Area 51, Chernobyl Diaries, Paranormal Activity 2, Insidious Similar People Katie Featherston, Jason Blum, Micah Sloat, Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman | ||
Casting directed Paranormal Activity | ||
Oren peli on the andromeda strain
Oren Peli (Hebrew: אורן פלאי; born January 21, 1970) is an Israeli American film director, producer and screenwriter, known as the director of Paranormal Activity.
Contents
- Oren peli on the andromeda strain
- Paranormal interview lloyd kaufman interviews oren peli
- Early life
- Career
- Television
- Films
- References
Paranormal interview lloyd kaufman interviews oren peli
Early life
Peli was born in Israel. At the age of 19, he relocated to the United States.
Career
Peli began as a computer software programmer, being one of the developers behind Photon Paint, a bitmap graphics program for the Amiga. His first film Paranormal Activity was inspired by Peli moving into his first house alone and without family nearby. Peli would hear creaks and knocks in the night, which laid the groundwork for a film about a family running around with cameras trying to catch what was going on in the house.
After the success of Paranormal Activity, Peli worked with James Wan and Leigh Whannell to develop Insidious. Peli also produced and wrote the 2012 horror film, Chernobyl Diaries, based on the Chernobyl disaster and on his story The Diary of Lawson Oxford. The film followed "a group of friends who, while vacationing in Europe, find themselves stranded in the abandoned city of Prypiat, Ukraine only to discover that they are not alone."
Television
In 2012, The River premiered on ABC, a paranormal/action/horror television series about a group of people on a mission to find a missing TV explorer in the Amazon. Peli co-created the show with Michael R. Perry, who co-wrote Paranormal Activity 2.
Films
Peli is writer and director of Area 51, a story about three friends who want to discover the secrets of the fabled Area 51. Peli is also the producer of all films in the Paranormal Activity franchise and The Lords of Salem.