Glorimar Marrero Sánchez

Directing

Glorimar Marrero Sánchez

Place of birth

Barranquitas, Puerto Rico

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

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 In 2017, she won the Best Screenplay Award in the Unpublished Screenplay Competition of the XXXIX Edition of the New Latin American Film Festival in Havana, Cuba.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 Lat…

Known for

No artwork available
5.8

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

2014

The Fishbowl poster
6.3

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

2023

No artwork available
NR

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

2013

No artwork available
9.0

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

2016

Todavía poster
NR

Raquel wants her sick friend Luisa to have a good time, one last time.

Todavía

2016

Revuelo [en la Roosevelt] poster
NR

Visuals and sounds of an abandoned school in Puerto Rico.

Revuelo [en la Roosevelt]

2017

Behind the camera

No artwork available
5.8

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

2014

The Fishbowl poster
6.3

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

2023

The Fishbowl poster
6.3

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

2023

The Fishbowl poster
6.3

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

2023

No artwork available
NR

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

2013

No artwork available
9.0

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

2016

No artwork available
9.0

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

2016

Todavía poster
NR

Raquel wants her sick friend Luisa to have a good time, one last time.

Todavía

2016

Revuelo [en la Roosevelt] poster
NR

Visuals and sounds of an abandoned school in Puerto Rico.

Revuelo [en la Roosevelt]

2017

Revuelo [en la Roosevelt] poster
NR

Visuals and sounds of an abandoned school in Puerto Rico.

Revuelo [en la Roosevelt]

2017

La josca poster
NR

Experimental short, based on the Abelardo Díaz Alfaro short story 'El josco'

La josca

2020

La josca poster
NR

Experimental short, based on the Abelardo Díaz Alfaro short story 'El josco'

La josca

2020

Sin título poster
NR

Prepping for a car tag renewal in Puerto Rico

Sin título

2020

Sin título poster
NR

Prepping for a car tag renewal in Puerto Rico

Sin título

2020

Juana(s) Matos: Un recorrido comunitario poster
NR

A look at the impact of one woman's life in the municipality of Cataño, in Puerto Rico.

Juana(s) Matos: Un recorrido comunitario

2018

Juana(s) Matos: Un recorrido comunitario poster
NR

A look at the impact of one woman's life in the municipality of Cataño, in Puerto Rico.

Juana(s) Matos: Un recorrido comunitario

2018

Juana(s) Matos: Un recorrido comunitario poster
NR

A look at the impact of one woman's life in the municipality of Cataño, in Puerto Rico.

Juana(s) Matos: Un recorrido comunitario

2018