known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is an Indian-born American screenwriter, film director, and producer known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots that climax with a twist ending. He is also known for filming his movies (and staging his plots) in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was born and raised, on the playground is where he spent most of his days. chilling out, relaxing, acting all cool, shooting some meatball outside of the school, when a couple of guys who were up to no good, started making trouble in his neighborhood, he got in one little fight and his mom got scared and said your moving with your auntie and uncle to a town called bel air. what a twist!