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Director
Marcos Zurinaga
- Born September 6, 1952 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Marcos Zurinaga is a Puerto Rican film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He studied at the UPR Elementary School, University High School (UHS) and obtained his B.A. at UPR in 1972. He joined Puerto Rican filmmaker Roberto Gándara upon graduation, setting aside plans to study a master's degree, founding the film company Zaga Films.
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Among the several movies that he has directed is La Gran Fiesta, a movie about the last grand party at the old "Casino de Puerto Rico" building in Old San Juan, before it was turned over to military use as the United States was drawn into World War Two, and A Step Away, a 1980 critically acclaimed movie narrated by Orson Welles. In 1997 came an unusual movie in Zurinaga's filmography, the thriller-mystery film The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca.
Known for
Death in Granada1996
Meant To Be2010
La gran fiesta1986
Tango Bar1987
The Bad Girl2008
Siempre piel canela: la música de Bobby Capó1997
Romance del cumbanchero: la música de Rafael Hernández1998
Somos un solo pueblo1995
Filmography
- 2019Raúl Juliá: The World’s a StageFilmSelf
- 2014Cinema Puerto Rico: una antropología visualFilmHimself
- 2010Meant To BeFilmCo-Producer
- 2008The Bad GirlFilmProducer
- 2008Lucía, Ignacio y otras historiasFilmDirector, Writer
- 2008Maná - Arde el CieloFilmDirector
- 1999Con la música por dentro: cien años de historiaFilmDirector
- 1998Romance del cumbanchero: la música de Rafael HernándezFilmDirector
- 1997Siempre piel canela: la música de Bobby CapóFilmDirector
- 1996Death in GranadaFilmDirector, Producer, Screenplay
- 1996Al compás de un sentimiento: la música de Pedro FloresFilmDirector
- 1995Somos un solo puebloFilmDirector
- 1994El espíritu de un puebloFilmDirector
- 1993Un pueblo que cantaFilmDirector
- 1990A flor de pielFilmDirector, Director of Photography
- 1987Tango BarFilmDirector, Writer, Director of Photography
- 1986La gran fiestaFilmDirector, Story, Screenplay, Producer, Director of Photography
- 1983One-Way TicketFilmDirector of Photography
- 1981Juan Ramón Jiménez: diario de un poetaFilmDirector of Photography
- 1981Puerto Rico: A Colony the American WayFilmCinematography
- 1980A Step AwayFilmAssistant Director, Director of Photography
- 1979Alicia Alonso y el Ballet Nacional de CubaFilmWriter, Producer, Director, Director of Photography
- 1979We, the People of Puerto Rico - No to the Coal Plant in AguadaFilmProducer, Director
- 1978Ednita: es para tiFilmDirector of Photography
- 1977Siempre estuvimos aquíFilmDirector, Director of Photography