Ariel Vromen ( he, אריאל ורומן; born February 14, 1973) is an Israeli

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and

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best known for directing the 2012 American film '' The Iceman''.

Life and career

Vromen grew up in the

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neighbourhood of

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

, to a family of

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descent. When he was 12, his parents bought him an 8mm camera. As a teenager, he used to shoot short films with his friends and later edit them.An interview with Ariel Vromen
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he said, "It was my obsession, I shot more than 40 short films - about cops, criminals and even an alien who comes to earth and kills all men". Vromen spent his

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military service at the Airborne Rescue And Evacuation

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. After his service, he studied law at the

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'' 09-03-2013 During his stay in Europe, he was a

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and later became a trance D.J. He attended a film school in New York at the age of 28. In 2001, he wrote and directed the short film '' Jewel of the Sahara'' starring

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. The film received positive reviews and was screened at a number of festivals. While making this film, an intern coming from a wealthy family accompanied Vromen to learn from him and at the end of his work on the film Vromen got a 900,000-

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check from the intern who told him "here is the money for your first feature film". This funding helped him make the thriller ''Rx''. Right after his work on ''Rx'' he got an offer to direct a film called '' Danika''. In 2005, after watching a documentary film on HBO about the serial killer Richard Kuklinski who worked for the mafia and murdered more than 125 people from the 1960s to the 1980s, Vromen began work on '' The Iceman''. Vromen and his co-writer, Morgan Land, read more than 1,000 pages of Kuklinski's criminal records. In August 2012, The Iceman was screened at the 69th Venice International Film Festival and was released worldwide in May 2013.

Filmography as director

* '' Jewel of the Sahara'' (2001) - short film * '' Rx'' (2005) * '' Danika'' (2006) * '' The Iceman'' (2012) * ''

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'' (2016) * ''Skeptical'' (2011) - documentary film * '' The Angel'' (2018)

References

External links

*
The Scorecard Review interviewTimes of Israel article
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vromen, Ariel 1973 births Israeli film directors Israeli male screenwriters Israeli emigrants to the United States Living people Alumni of the University of Kent