Fernando Pérez
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Fernando Pérez Valdés is a Cuban film director, and has been described as one of the most important film directors currently working in Cuba. Pérez graduated from Language and Spanish Literature at the University of Havana, 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 international recognition of his work began to grow. Pérez later directed La Vida es Silbar(1998) and Suite Habana(2003) which is considered by some critics to be the best Cuban Film in decades. Suite Habana was hailed by Variety as "A lyrical, meticulously-crafted and unexpectedly melancholy homage to the battered but resilient inhabitants of a battered but resilient city". His next project is called Madrigal and tells a story about life in the theater world. It is in post-production, and expected to be ready in late 2006 or 2007.
