Fermin Tangüis Figueroa is an independent filmmaker who belonged to the generation of the 90's. In his formative years he worked as an assistant alongside important figures of Peruvian cinema such as Stefan Kaspar, Charo Lino, Danny Gavidia, Juan Carlos Torrico, Maria Ruiz and Armando Robles Godoy. After that experience, he began a career as an independent filmmaker and has directed many short films, a feature film and two documentaries. He won the award for best short film at the Lima University Anthropological Film Festival in 1996 and received the silver Kantu for the talent shown. Later, he was interested in exploring the field of video art and experimental video, by becoming a resident artist for ATA (NGO that supports the production, development, and research of video art and experimental video in Peru). Under the support of the Cultural Center of Spain he has produced and directed video clips for national and international rock bands.
in 2021 he directed and produced the documentary HISTORIAS DE PERUSALEM. This documentary has been awarded by two important national film festivals, receiving the award for Best Soundtrack at the 2021 "Incontrastable Film Festival" in the city of Huancayo and the audience award for Best Documentary at the 2021 "AQP Festival" in the city of Arequipa. It was also selected to participate in the collective contemporary art exhibition entitled "En busca de algo perdido... Perú un sueño" which was presented from November 2021 to March 2022 at the National Museum of Peru (MUNA) in Pachacamac, Lima. In July 2022 this documentary was presented in the auditorium of the LUM museum (Place of memory, tolerance and social inclusion) remembering the 30th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Tarata Street.
"EL ARTE DE LA LIBERTAD", his most recent documentary project, was completed in February 2023. This is a documentary that covers 7 years of interviews and filming with Patricia Bellatin (plastic artist, architect, nature conservator and antiquarian) who throughout the film narrates her personal battles against that enormous sector of Peruvian society hostile towards people who openly declare a different sexuality and intolerant of those who seek personal development outside the canons of the status quo and conservatism. This documentary has been nominated for Best Documentary at the 2023 Montreal Independent Film Festival and has also been selected to participate in the 2023 LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival.