Alan Zelenetz is an American

United States

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 film producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 and comic-book writer

Writer

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 best known for co-creating the series Alien Legion

Alien Legion

Alien Legion is a science-fiction comic-book series and associated titles created by Carl Potts, Alan Zelenetz, and Frank Cirocco for Marvel Comics; Epic Comics imprint in 1983...

 for the Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

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 imprint Epic Comics

Epic Comics

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 and a founder

Entrepreneur

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 of Ovie Entertainment

Ovie Entertainment

Ovie Entertainment is an American independent film motion picture production company based in New York City.Founded by Thoma Kikis, Christopher Kikis, Nicholas Levis, Cheesey Botox, and Alan Zelenetz in 2003 to produce independent and commercially viable films and with an obligation to the past...

. Zelenetz also wrote several issues of Marvel's Moon Knight

Moon Knight

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 series and a run of Conan the King (issues #16-28).

Before becoming a film producer, he was a junior high school principal at the Yeshiva of Flatbush, an Orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn. One of the science teachers under his supervision was the father of Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. He attended Harvard University to study film theory and the American Film Institute to study both live-action and animation filmmaking...

, director of Pi

Pi (film)

Pi, also titled ,WorldCat gives the title as [Pi] and provides a note which states, "Title is the mathematical symbol for Pi." . Amazon gives the title as Pi with no notation concerning the math symbol . is a 1998 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky...

 (1998).

Selected filmography

• Pi
  Pi (film)
  Pi, also titled ,WorldCat gives the title as [Pi] and provides a note which states, "Title is the mathematical symbol for Pi." . Amazon gives the title as Pi with no notation concerning the math symbol . is a 1998 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky...
  
   (1998) (Judaica advisor)
• Darkon (2006) (producer, executive producer;)* Darkonthemovie.com
• The Funeral Party (2007) (co-producer)
• Andorra scheduled in (2007) (producer)

External links

• Ovie Entertainment