Cary Joji Fukunaga (born July 10, 1977) is an American film director, writer and cinematographer.
Fukunaga was born in Oakland, California, has lived in various places such as France and Japan, and now he resides in New York City. His father is Japanese and his mother is Swedish. Fukunaga got his start as a camera intern and later applied to film school.
Fukunaga graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in History in 1999...
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Cary Joji Fukunaga (born July 10, 1977) is an American film director, writer and cinematographer.
Fukunaga was born in Oakland, California, has lived in various places such as France and Japan, and now he resides in New York City. His father is Japanese and his mother is Swedish. Fukunaga got his start as a camera intern and later applied to film school.
Fukunaga graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in History in 1999 and attended Institut d'études politiques (IEP) de Grenoble, and New York University in the Graduate Film Program. He has received several grants including a USA Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, the John H. Johnson Film Award/Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship, and a Katrin Cartlidge Foundation bursary. In addition to English, he is fluent in French and Spanish.
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. He...
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