Ari Handel

Ari Handel is a Swissborn American neuroscientist film producer and writer He is known for cowriting the films Noah and The Fountain with his Harvard Dunster House suitemate Darren Aronofsky and for producing these films along with four other films The Wrestler Black Swan Mother and The Whale He started cowriting the film Noah around 2003 Handel grew up in a Jewish family in Newton Massachusetts He was born in Zürich Switzerland while his father was studying abroad but he only lived there for about a year Handel had an internship for Nova at WGBH the Boston PBS station He has a PhD in neurobiology from New York University Torn between science writing and science education he eventually became a film writer in an attempt to become a better communicator of science Description above from the Wikipedia article Ari Handel licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia