Glorimar Marrero Sánchez
About
Glorimar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Puerto Rico (Mayagüez Campus) and a Master’s degree in Communications from Florida International University. Her academic background includes seminars, workshops on various areas of filmmaking such as screenwriting, photography and directing.
In 2012 she won the award for Best Screenplay at Cinefiesta (Puerto Rico International Short Film Festival) – a screenwriting competition - with her first short film Tokío (Official Selection of the Palm Springs International Short Film Festival 2014 and Cinefiesta 2014). That same year, her second script, Amarillo (Yellow), was selected to be part of Micros 2012, a short film series of the Puerto Rico Film Corporation. Both scripts were produced in 2013.
In 2016 she directed the shortfilm Biopsy (Official Selection of the Ícaro International Film Festival in Guatemala in 2016, and 21 Islands International Short Fest in New York, Honor Mention in 2016). This short was part of the shortfilms competition of the European Film Festival, produced by the French Alliance in Puerto Rico, where she won the Best Director Award.
Then she directed the short film Still (Official Selection of the International Film Festival of Gibara in Cuba in 2017, Official Selection of the Youth Cinema Programming in Cuba in 2017, Official Selection of the Ícaro International Film Festival in Guatemala in 2017, and Official Selection of the Panamenian International Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA, in 2017). This projects was part of the second year pre-thesis of the International School of Cinema and Television (EICTV), in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.
In 2017 she premiered Revuelo at Roosevelt, her first piece of video art commissioned by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and the National
Endowment for the Arts.
Glorimar is currently working on the advanced development of La Pecera (Fish Tank) (Winner of the Unpublished Screenplay Contest of the 39th New Latin American Film Festival, 2017, and Winner of Tribeca Film Institute Latin America Fund Grant, 2018), her first feature length film, in the post production of Por el barrio, a documentary commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, and in the development and realization of
other authorial projects.
La Pecera
After Noelia discovers her cancer has metastasized she reluctantly returns to her hometown, the island of Vieques that has been contaminated through 60 years of military practices. While staying at her mother’s house and spending time with new and old friends, she gets to live in the self-determined way she needs.