Victor Nunez

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Victor Nuñez born 1945 is a film director professor at the Florida State University College of Motion Picture Television and Recording Arts and a founding member of the Independent Feature Project He is best known for directing Ulees 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 lowbudget nonHollywood projects In the 1970s he made three fictional shorts Taking Care of Mother Baldwin 1970 Charly Bensons 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 was another six years before his next film A Flash of Green his first film to employ bigname actors In 1993 he directed Ruby in Paradise which featured actress Ashley Judd in her first leading role This was followed by his 1997 film Ulees Gold starring Peter Fonda He lives outside Panama City Beach Florida the setting of most of his films Description above from the Wikipedia article Victor Nuñez licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia