Marcos Zurinaga
Born: 1952-09-06 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Known For: Directing
Biography
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. 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.
Filmography
2019
- Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage as Self
2014
- Cinema Puerto Rico: una antropología visual as Himself
2010
- Meant To Be ... (Co-Producer)
2008
- The Bad Girl ... (Producer)
- Lucía, Ignacio y otras historias ... (Director)
- MANA - Arde el Cielo ... (Director)
1999
- Con la música por dentro: cien años de historia ... (Director)
1998
- Romance del cumbanchero: la música de Rafael Hernández ... (Director)
1997
- Siempre piel canela: la música de Bobby Capó ... (Director)
1996
- Death in Granada ... (Director)
- Al compás de un sentimiento: la música de Pedro Flores ... (Director)
1995
- Somos un solo pueblo ... (Director)
1994
- El espíritu de un pueblo ... (Director)
1993
- Un pueblo que canta ... (Director)
1990
- A flor de piel ... (Director)
1987
- Tango Bar ... (Director)
1986
- La gran fiesta ... (Director)
1983
- One-Way Ticket ... (Director of Photography)
1981
- Puerto Rico: A Colony the American Way ... (Cinematography)
- Juan Ramón Jiménez: diario de un poeta ... (Director of Photography)
1980
- A Step Away ... (Assistant Director)
1979
- We, the People of Puerto Rico - No to the Coal Plant in Aguada ... (Producer)
- Alicia Alonso y el Ballet Nacional de Cuba ... (Writer)
1978
- Ednita: es para ti ... (Director of Photography)
1977
- Siempre estuvimos aquí ... (Director)