Cary Joji Fukunaga (born July 10, 1977) is an American film director, writer and cinematographer. He is originally from Oakland, California, has lived in France, Japan and Mexico City, and now resides in New York City. His father is Japanese and his mother is Swedish.^[1] He is also a fluent speaker of French and Spanish.^[2]

[edit] Education and Fellowships

Fukunaga graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in History^[3] in 1999^[4] and attended Institut d'études politiques (IEP) de Grenoble,^[5] and New York University in the Graduate Film Program. He has received several grants including a USA Rockefeller Foundation Fellowhship, the John H. Johnson Film Award, a Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship, and a Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Bursary. In addition to English, he is fluent in French and Spanish.^[1]

[edit] Film work

Fukunaga wrote and directed the short film Victoria para Chino (2004) while at NYU, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival and received a Student Academy Award in 2005.^[6] He made his feature film debut with Sin Nombre.

[edit] Awards

• U.S. Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival in 2009.^[7]
• Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Cary Joji Fukunaga at the Internet Movie Database

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