Fernando Pérez (director)

Fernando Pérez Valdés (born 19 November 1944) is a prominent Cuban 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 most recent film called Madrigal tells a story about life in the theater world.

His next film was a biopic that covered the childhood and early teenage years of Cuban national hero Jose Marti entitled Marti: El ojo del Canario, which premiered in 2010 and earned several awards in the film Festival Circuit.

In the spring term 2016 Pérez was the fifth Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professor for World Literature[1] at the University of Bern.