Victor Nuñez
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Victor Nuñez (born 1945) is a film director, professor of film at Florida State University, and a founding member of the Independent Feature Project. He is best known for directing Ulee's Gold, a critically acclaimed movie starring Jessica Biel and Peter Fonda.
Nuñez grew up in Peru and Tallahassee, Florida. He received his undergraduate degree from Antioch College and an MFA in film directing from the UCLA Film School. He spent the beginning of his career directing low-budget, non-"Hollywood" projects. In the 1970s he made three fictional shorts, "Taking Care of Mother Baldwin" (1970), "Charly Benson's Return to the Sea" (1972), and "A Circle in the Fire" (1974).
Nuñez made his feature debut in 1979 with the film Gal Young 'Un. It would be another six years before his next film A Flash of Green, which would be his first film to employ big-name actors. In 1993 he directed Ruby in Paradise which was be his largest production to date only to be topped by his 1997 film, Ulee's Gold.
He resides outside Panama City Beach, Florida where most of his films take place.
[edit] Filmography
- Coastlines (2002)
- Ulee's Gold (1997)
- Ruby in Paradise (1993)
- A Flash of Green (1984)
- Gal Young 'Un (1979)
- A Circle in the Fire (1974)
- Charly Benson's Return to the Sea (1972)
- Taking Care of Mother Baldwin (1970)