Oren Peli

Oren Peli (Hebrew אורן פלי; born 1970 in Israel) is an Israeli- American game programmer and filmmaker.

Life

Peli 1990 came from Israel to the USA and works as a programmer for video games. He was involved among other things in games like Mortal Kombat 3 ( Midway Games, 1995). He then worked for Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE ) associated with development teams 989 Studios ( in the Games NFL Xtreme, 1998 and MLB 2004, 2003 ) and SCE Studios San Diego ( to MLB 08: The Show, 2008).

In addition to his work he turned in 2006 at his home in San Diego with a Sony HD camera his first feature film Paranormal Activity. The film cost Peli and Jason Blum its producers only $ 11,000, the rotation time was seven days and the post-production took one year. In October 2007, the independent production on the Screamfest Festival celebrated its premiere and ran after the Sundance Film Festival had rejected the film in January 2008 at the Sundance competition event Slamdance. After this performance, the rights were bought by DreamWorks, originally with the intention to rotate a remake. These plans were dropped and the theatrical release postponed due to the clashes between DreamWorks and the former parent company Paramount again and again. Since September 2009, the film from Paramount is gradually brought into the American cinema, while advertised by means of a viral marketing campaign.

In Paranormal Activity, Paranormal Activity 2, Paranormal Activity 3 Paranormal Activity 4 and he was a producer and screenwriter.

In October and November 2009, the shooting took place in Utah to Peli's second feature film Area 51. The film, in turn, an independent production by Jason Blum, for the Peli again wrote the screenplay, had a budget of five million dollars. Peli is a producer and director of the pilot for ABC found footage series The River, this was created under the production of Steven Spielberg. In 2012 he was involved as a writer and producer on the horror film Chernobyl Diaries.