Angel Pérez, MA

Angel Pérez  is  a literary critic and audiovisual media expert. His texts and essays appear in books, anthologies and national and international periodicals; among them, Temas, La Gaceta de Cuba, Cuban Cinema, La Siempreviva, La Noria, Islas Magazine, New Latin American Cinema, The Informer, The Eye that Thinks, among others. He compiled and prefaced with Javier L. Mora, Long Playing Poetry. Cuba: Generation Zero Years (Casa Vacía, Richmond, Virginia, 2017), and with Jamila Media, Passport. Cuba: poetry of the Zero Years (Catafixia, Guatemala, 2019). He has won the UNEAC Caracol Film Criticism and Essay Award (2017, 2019 respectively), the Essay Giver Creation Scholarship (2018), as well as the International Essay Award from the magazine Temas (2019) and the Pinos Nuevos Award. essay (2020), awarded by the Cuban Book Institute.

He is a member of the Hermanos Saiz Association (AHS), the Cuban Association of Cinematographic Press (ACPC), and the International Federation of Cinematographic Press (FIPRESCI). He has published the book Bad Words. Approaches to the Cuban poetry of the Zero Years (Casa Vacía, 2021) and, in editorial process by Letras Cubanas, Burlar el cerco. Aesthetic conflicts and historical negotiations in Cuban cinema (Pinos Nuevos Award, 2020). He currently works as a Programmer for the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema and Specialist for the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba. He has taught various subjects related to audiovisuals at the University of Havana and the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños. He is a member of the editorial staff of Rialta magazine.