Ari Edelman has worked as a writer, editor, camera man and director. He spent half of a year working for Chaos films in 2013, mostly as a camera man and web designer; though he also wrote grant proposals, treatments, edited footage, and researched documentary projects. In 2009, he directed his first film, a forty minute short called The Sinistra, which won the ACTA Award for Best Film of that year. Born in California, he had a double major in film and sociology at California State University Long Beach. In 2012, he moved to Germany to study in Hamburg for 6 months and completed a 3 month long mini television projects at Studio Hamburg in the sound and cinema departments. He is currently moving back to California to pursue a career in film there although he plans to make aliyah within two to three years time.