Cuba

Fernando Pérez Valdés, born 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 feature debut was the drama Clandestinos (1987) but it was not 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 2007 film called Madrigal tells a story about life in the theater world. His next film was 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 within the film festival circuit. His other films include La Pared de las Palabras (2014), Ultimos Dias en la Habana (2016) and Insumisa (2018). Biography Source

Filmography

Crónica de la victoria (1975)
Cascos blancos (1975)
Siembro viento en mi ciudad (1978)
Omara (1983)
Clandestinos (1987)
Hello Hemingway (1990)
Madagascar (1994)
Life is to Whistle (1998)
Suite Habana (2003)
Madrigal (2007)
Martí, the Eye of the Canary (2010)
La pared de las palabras (2014)
Últimos días en La Habana (2016)
Insumisa (2018)