Marcos Zurinaga
Birthday: 1952-09-06
Birthplace: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Gender: Male
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.
Credits
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2008-06-12 | Lucía, Ignacio y otras historias |
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1999-12-05 | Con la música por dentro: cien años de historia |
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1998-12-06 | Romance del cumbanchero: la música de Rafael Hernández |
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1997-12-07 | Siempre piel canela: la música de Bobby Capó |
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1997-09-12 | The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca |
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1996-12-08 | Al compás de un sentimiento: la música de Pedro Flores |
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1996-11-09 | Death in Granada |
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1995-12-03 | Somos un solo pueblo |
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1994-12-04 | El espíritu de un pueblo |
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1993-12-03 | Un pueblo que canta |
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1990-01-02 | A flor de piel |
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1987-04-23 | Tango Bar |
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1986-12-01 | La gran fiesta |
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1979-01-02 | Alicia Alonso y el Ballet Nacional de Cuba |
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1979-01-01 | We, the People of Puerto Rico - No to the Coal Plant in Aguada |
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1977-01-02 | Siempre estuvimos aquí |