Fernando Pérez
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 19, 1944, Havana, Cuba
- Movies
- 16
Fernando Pérez Valdés (born November 19, 1944; Havana) is a Cuban film director and writer, with a degree in Hispanic Language and Literature from the University of Havana.
He has taught Film Appreciation and Film History courses at the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños. Since 1962 he has been linked to cinema, first as a production assistant and then as an assistant director. In 1975 he debuted as a documentary filmmaker, also making numerous editions of the Latin American ICAIC News. He began his career as a feature film director in 1987 with Clandestinos, a film that would earn him great recognition from national and international critics. Throughout his career he has received numerous awards at different festivals both in Cuba and abroad, being awarded with the National Film Award in 2007. He was also awarded the Casa de las Américas Prize for his book Correspondents of War.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2010 | Memória Cubana | Self |
| 2008 | Titón: From Havana to Guantanamera, 1928-1996 | Interviewee |
| 2003 | Rodar en Cuba | |
| 1993 | Culpa | Eleuterio Santacruz |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2023 | Nelsito's World | Director, Screenplay |
| 2019 | Defiant Souls | Director, Screenplay |
| 2016 | Last Days in Havana | Director, Writer |
| 2014 | The Wall of Words | Director, Writer |
| 2010 | José Martí, the Eye of the Canary | Director |
| 2007 | Madrigal | Director, Writer |
| 2003 | Suite Habana | Director, Writer |
| 1998 | Life Is to Whistle | Director, Writer |
| 1995 | Madagascar | Director, Writer |
| 1990 | Hello Hemingway | Director |
| 1987 | Living Dangerously | Director |
| 1975 | Puerto Rico | Director |
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