Fernando Pérez (director)
Fernando Pérez Valdés (born 19 November 1944) is a prominent Cuban film director.
Career
Pérez graduated from the University of Havana with a degree in Language and Spanish Literature, and began working in the Cuban film industry in 1971 as an assistant director, before directing his first documentary in 1975.
His feature debut was the drama
In the spring term 2016 Pérez was the fifth Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professor for World Literature[1] at the University of Bern.
Selected filmography
- Clandestinos (1987)
- Hello Hemingway (1990)
- Madagascar (1994)
- Life Is to Whistle (1998)
- Suite Habana (2003)
- Last Days in Havana (2016)
References
- ^ "Fernando Pérez". Walter Benjamin Kolleg. 2016-07-07. Retrieved 2020-08-03.