Cary Joji Fukunaga

Cary Joji Fukunaga graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz. His film work as a writer, director, and cinematographer has taken him around the world, from the Arctic Circle to Haiti and West Africa.

He has received several prestigious grants, including a 2008 USA Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, the John H. Johnson Film Award, and a 2005 Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship. He also received, in 2007, a Katrin Cartlidge Foundation Bursary. Mr. Fukunaga wrote and directed the short film "Victoria para Chino," which screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. It was honored with over two dozen international awards, including a Student Academy Award and an honorable mention from BAFTA's Los Angeles chapter.

An MFA candidate from New York University's Graduate Film Program, Mr. Fukunaga marks his feature film writing and directing debut with "Sin Nombre."