Fernando Pérez
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Fernando Pérez Valdés is a prominent Cuba
n film director.
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 Clandestinos (1987) but it wasn’t until Madagascar
(1994) that he garnered significant international recognition. Pérez later directed La Vida es Silbar
(1998) and Suite Habana
(2003). Suite Habana is considered by some critics to be the best Cuban film in decades. Variety
hailed it as "A lyrical, meticulously-crafted and unexpectedly melancholy homage to the battered but resilient inhabitants of a battered but resilient city." His most recent film called Madrigal tells a story about life in the theater world. It appeared in film festivals in 2007. His current project is about Jose Marti.
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
n film director.
Pérez graduated from the University of Havana
University of Havana
The University of Havana or UH is a university located in the Vedado district of Havana, Cuba. Founded in 1728, the University of Havana is the oldest university in Cuba, and one of the first to be founded in the Americas...
with a degree in Language and Spanish Literature, and began working in the Cuban film
Cinema of Cuba
Cinema arrived in Cuba at the beginning of the 20th century. Before the Cuban Revolution of 1959, about 80 full-length films were produced in Cuba. Most of these films were melodramas...
industry in 1971 as an assistant director, before directing his first documentary in 1975.
His feature debut was the drama Clandestinos (1987) but it wasn’t until Madagascar
Madagascar (1994 film)
Madagascar is a Cuban film that marked Fernando Pérez's change of direction into a more lyrical approach to filmmaking, somehow stripped from the realistic documentary feel of his early work...
(1994) that he garnered significant international recognition. Pérez later directed La Vida es Silbar
La Vida es Silbar
Life Is to Whistle is an award winning, 1998 Cuban film directed by Fernando Pérez- Plot synopsis :The film tells the stories of three end-of-the millennium Cubans, whose lives intersect on the Day of Santa Barbara...
(1998) and Suite Habana
Suite Habana
Suite Habana is a 2003 Cuban documentary directed by Fernando Pérez.The documentary was filmed with fictional cinema techniques depicting a day in a life of thirteen real people, from a ten-year-old child with Down Syndrome to a 79-year-old lady who sells peanuts in the street.The film has no...
(2003). Suite Habana is considered by some critics to be the best Cuban film in decades. Variety
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
hailed it as "A lyrical, meticulously-crafted and unexpectedly melancholy homage to the battered but resilient inhabitants of a battered but resilient city." His most recent film called Madrigal tells a story about life in the theater world. It appeared in film festivals in 2007. His current project is about Jose Marti.