Victor Nunez

This film director, a founding member of the Independent Feature Project, has made a name with low-budget, non-"Hollywood" projects which gestate for as long as ten years before being filmed. Nunez - who grew up in Peru and in Tallahassee, Florida - completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees in film, then worked on educational and industrial shorts. Nunez made three fictional shorts in the 1970s. Taking Care of Mother Baldwin (1970), was about a boy's tentative friendship with a woman neighbor. Charly Benson's Return to the Sea (1972), follows a returning Vietnam veteran. A Circle in the Fire (1974) was adapted from a Flannery O'Connor story about a dairy farm's inhabitants. Nunez made his feature debut in 1979 with Gal Young Un (1979), a low-budget drama set during the 1920s, based on the story of the same name by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It tells the story of a widowed Florida woman, her bootlegger second husband, and his mistress, the title character. Six years elapsed bef