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| View News Home UCSC alumnus wins 2009 Sundance directing award for first feature film  UCSC alumnus wins 2009 Sundance directing award for first feature film First-time director and UC Santa Cruz alumnus Cary Joji Fukunaga has received the award for best "Directing, U.S. Drama," at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival for his film Sin Nombre. Fukunaga—who graduated from UCSC in 1999 with a B.A. in history—wrote and directed the movie, which is based on firsthand experiences with Central American immigrants seeking a better life in the U.S. Hailed as one of the most emotionally devastating films in this year's festival lineup, it is vivdly described on the Sundance web site as "a social-political thriller in the tradition of American film noir… at once a love story and a chase film, a thrill ride and a vision of an apocalyptic hell." more
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