Miguel Pereira (film director)

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]

Miguel Pereira
Miguel Ángel Pereira
Born (1957-04-12) April 12, 1957
San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy Province, Argentina
Alma materLondon Film School
Occupation(s)film director, producer,
and writer

Biography

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. It is considered a "Category A" festival, along with festivals like Cannes, Berlin or Venice.[3]

Directing filmography
  • Verónico Cruz: La Deuda interna (1988)
  • La Última siembra (1991) aka The Last Harvest
  • Sin palabras... Jujuy (1994)
  • Che... Ernesto (1998)
  • Historias de Argentina en vivo (2001)
  • La Saga de Cirilo Donaire (2003)
  • El Destino (2006), aka The Man Who Came to a Village

Awards

Wins

Nominations

  • Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: Crystal Globe, El Destino, 2006.
  • Berlin International Film Festival: Golden Berlin Bear, Miguel Pereira, 1988.

References
  1. Miguel Pereira at IMDb.
  2. "Berlinale: 1988 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
  3. London Film School Archived 2007-03-06 at the Wayback Machine web page. Last accessed: 1/23/07.
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