Add/Update Information: David Arata - Writer

An American screenwriter and producer, who attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied painting, theater, and film, and began making independent experimental films in the style of directors Robert Frank and Jean Luc Godard. After graduating, he continued his education at the American Film Institute and focused on screenwriting. He made his screenwriting debut with Brokedown Place (1999). He is also known for his work in the 2006 film Children of Men, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.