Marcos Zurinaga

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 Movies

Acting

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Cinema Puerto Rico: una antropología visual

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A look at Puerto Rico and its cinema through films, documentaries, and commercials from the early twentieth century to the emerging cinema of today. Visual and narrative strategies portray fragments of Puerto Rico's general history and, in turn, answers the questions of who, when, and for whom have films been made in Puerto Rico and the resources that are available to do it.

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Cinema Puerto Rico: una antropología visual

Himself

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Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage

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Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking actor’s journey from his native Puerto Rico to the creative hotbed of 1960s New York City, to prominence on Broadway and in Hollywood. Filled with passion, determination and joy, Juliá’s brilliant and daring career was tragically cut short by his untimely death at age 54.

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Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage

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Production

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Death in Granada

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A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.

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Death in Granada

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We, the People of Puerto Rico - No to the Coal Plant in AguadaMOVIE

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We, the People of Puerto Rico - No to the Coal Plant in Aguada

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Documentary about the way in which the citizens of the town of Aguada, Puerto Rico asserted their civil rights before the construction of a coal plant that the government intended to establish in the municipality.

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We, the People of Puerto Rico - No to the Coal Plant in Aguada

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We, the People of Puerto Rico - No to the Coal Plant in AguadaMOVIE

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We, the People of Puerto Rico - No to the Coal Plant in Aguada

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We, the People of Puerto Rico - No to the Coal Plant in Aguada

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La gran fiesta

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In 1942, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a casino is organizing a farewell party for its patrons, since it's about to be turned into a US military base. The guests drink, seduce and gossip, but some also plot against each other.

A fled Tango show owner returns to Buenos Aires to join his partners after the oppressive government of Argentina has dissolved.

One-Way Ticket

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Documentary about how the arrival of the railway industry impacted Puerto Rican culture economically, socially, and humanistically during the first half of the 20th century. It includes photos by Jack Delano, among others, and scenarios to reconstruct the experience of what could have been the last trip made by train from San Juan to Ponce in 1953.

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One-Way Ticket

Director of Photography

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The Bad Girl

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Determined not to simply get married, start a family, and grow old like the rest of the girls in her town, an aspiring Cuban diva sets out to launch a career as a singer.

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The Bad Girl

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El espíritu de un puebloMOVIE

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El espíritu de un pueblo

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Presentation of popular and folk music by Puerto Rican composers which aims to exemplify the national characteristics, values, and identify of its people.

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El espíritu de un pueblo

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