Ari Aster
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- Son of a musician and a poet.
- Lived in Chester, England, for a short time before his family settled in New Mexico when he was 10.
- The first movie he saw in theaters was Dick Tracy (1990) when he was 4, and he ran in fear out of the theater when a character fired a tommy gun.
- Was accepted in the AFI Conservatory after submitting his short film Tale of Two Tims, which he created at College of Santa Fe.
- His thesis film at the American Film Institute, The Strange Thing About the Johnsons, was screened in film festivals.
- Met many of his collaborators while studying at College of Santa Fe and AFI Conservatory.
- Co-founder of the production company Square Peg.