Biography
David Arata is an American screenwriter and producer. He was raised in the San Francisco suburbs and attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied painting, theatre and film. He subsequently attended the American Film Institute Conservatory.
Arata made his screenwriting debut with Brokedown Palace (1999). His subsequent credits include Spy Game (2001) and Children of Men (2006), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay along with several other awards for the screenplay. He later wrote The Angel (2018). He has served as a creative advisor at the Sundance Film Institute's screenwriting lab.
