Ari Handel President, Protozoa Pictures

ARI HANDEL holds a doctorate in Neuroscience and has published four papers on the role of the Substantia Nigra pars reticulata in the generation of saccadic eye movements. He left academia to become President of Protozoa Pictures where he has been a writer on the films The Fountain and Noah; a producer on mother! and Jackie; an executive-producer on Some Kind of Heaven, White Boy Rick, Noah, Black Swan, and Catch The Fair One; as well as an executive producer on National Geographics One Strange Rock and the VR series SPHERES: Songs of Spacetime. Handel serves as a co-chair of the board of The Moth, the Peabody and Macarthur Award winning not-for-profit dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling.