

Career Short films įukunaga 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 enrolled in New York University Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program. He got his start as a camera intern and later applied to film school.
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įukunaga had originally wanted to be a pro snowboarder, but switched to filmmaking in his mid-twenties.

He graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1999 and attended the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies, where he studied geopolitics and international law. His family often relocated within the San Francisco Bay Area, moving to Berkeley, Albany, Vallejo, Benicia, Sebastopol and back to Oakland. Fukunaga inherited his interest in history from her. His mother, Gretchen May Grufman, is Swedish-American and worked as a dental hygienist, and later as a college history instructor and university assistant professor of history. His father, Anthony Shuzo Fukunaga, was a third-generation Japanese American, born in an internment camp during World War II.
