Miguel Pereira (born April 12, 1957, in San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy Province, Argentina) is a film director, producer and screenplay writer.

He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina.

[1] Pereira was a film student at the London Film School in the early 1980s and graduated in 1982.

His breakout film as a director and, also his first, was Verónico Cruz (1988), an Argentine and British co-production, which won many awards at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival, including the Silver Berlin Bear.

[2] From 2002 to 2008 he was the president of the Mar Del Plata International Film Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a prestigious festival that takes place every year during March in Mar del Plata, Argentina.