‘No Time to Die’ Director Filming War Relief Efforts in Ukraine

Cary Fukunaga is the first American to direct a James Bond movie (2021's "No Time to Die") and was also behind the camera for Apple TV+'s upcoming World War II drama "Masters of the Air."

Right now, Fukunaga is working with chef José Andrés and the nonprofit World Central Kitchen (WCK) to aid families displaced by the war in Ukraine and has been recording the efforts on his personal Instagram page.

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Andrés originally learned his cooking skills when doing his mandatory military service in his home country of Spain. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, he founded WCK to provide meals to people impacted by natural disasters. During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, he converted several of his high-profile restaurants in New York City and Washington, D.C., into soup kitchens.

WCK is now running eight relief kitchens on the Ukraine-Poland border, and that's why Fukunaga has traveled to the area. He traveled to Kyiv to document the conditions of the citizens under fire and chronicled the WCK relief efforts.

Unlike a lot of Hollywood directors, Fukunaga has camera skills and acted as his own cinematographer on the excellent Netflix African war movie "Beasts of No Nation." The images he's published are as striking as they are informative. He's also a screenwriter, and his descriptions of the people and situations he's recording are just as moving as the images he's capturing with his camera.

Fukunaga worked with producer Steven Spielberg on "Masters of the Air," and the two men are scheduled for another collaboration on the upcoming HBO series "Napoleon," which will be based on the life of the French general and an unrealized 1969 movie from director Stanley Kubrick starring Jack Nicholson. That movie was canceled by MGM just before production was set to begin, and filmmakers have been trying to revive the project for more than 50 years. Now, Fukunaga will bring this legendary lost project to the screen.

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