Marcos Zurinaga
Directing
Born September 6, 1952 · 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. 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.
Directed (16)
Maná - Arde el Cielo
2008
Lucía, Ignacio y otras historias
2008
Con la música por dentro: cien años de historia
1999
Romance del cumbanchero: la música de Rafael Hernández
1998
Siempre piel canela: la música de Bobby Capó
1997
Al compás de un sentimiento: la música de Pedro Flores
1996
Death in Granada
1996
Somos un solo pueblo
1995
El espíritu de un pueblo
1994
Un pueblo que canta
1993
A flor de piel
1990
Tango Bar
1987
La gran fiesta
1986
Alicia Alonso y el Ballet Nacional de Cuba
1979
We, the People of Puerto Rico - No to the Coal Plant in Aguada
1979
Siempre estuvimos aquí
1977
