Glorimar Marrero Sánchez
Directing
Biography
Born in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico (1978) Marrero Sánchez is a filmmaker, screenwriter and interdisciplinary artist whose work is related to grief, identity, colonialism and gender. Her work includes film, photography and installation. La Pecera marks her Feature Film Directorial Debut. In 2017, she won the Best Screenplay Award in the Unpublished Screenplay Competition of the XXXIX Edition of the New Latin American Film Festival in Havana, Cuba. That same year, she premiered Revuelo en Roosevelt, a piece of video art commissioned by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2018 she obtained a grant for the development of La Pecera, through the Latin American Fund of the Tribeca Film Institute, and won the First Prize of the European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) at the MAFIZ of the Malaga Film Festival. In 2019, she won the IBERMEDIA Program Co-Production Fund for the production of her first feature film La Pecera and premiered the documentary Juana (s) Matos, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico. Glorimar has been an artist-in-residence at the University of Chicago, MASS MoCA, and the Latin American Studies Program at Princeton University. Her work has been presented in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, the United States and Europe. She currently resides and works between San Juan, Puerto Rico, Madrid, Spain and Hyde Park, Chicago.
Known For
As her cancer spreads, Noelia's ultimate decision is to return to her native Vieques, Puerto Rico, and claim her freedom to decide her own fate. She reunites with her friends and family, who are still dealing with the contamination of the U.S. Navy after 60 years of military practices.
The Fishbowl
When all the residents of Tokío are evicted from their houses, two kids, Emiliano and Aurelia, are forced to end their friendship. But before that, they make a plan to save the life of a kitten that is going to be abandoned when everybody leaves the neighborhood. This seems like a very simple scheme, but it turns out to be a lesson of beauty, and humanity, that emerges from themselves as an act of rebellion in a world full of destruction.
Tokio
![Revuelo [en la Roosevelt]](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/rgQGL9dxLe878Ov1sjXANfTmSuT.jpg)
Visuals and sounds of an abandoned school in Puerto Rico.
Revuelo [en la Roosevelt]
Carmen accompanies a group of women who must travel from the island of Vieques to San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, in order to perform breast biopsies. The long journey is by water and road. Amid many fears and vicissitudes, Carmen confirms once again the need for appropriate medical services for both women and for the rest of the Vieques population.
Biopsia
In this veterans' hospice, every patient spends their last days fighting between life and death. Veterans die alone in rooms full of memories and anecdotes about wars that they fought for a country that they barely knew.
Amarillo
Raquel wants her sick friend Luisa to have a good time, one last time.
Todavía
Experimental short, based on the Abelardo Díaz Alfaro short story 'El josco'
La josca
A look at the impact of one woman's life in the municipality of Cataño, in Puerto Rico.
Juana(s) Matos: Un recorrido comunitario
Prepping for a car tag renewal in Puerto Rico