Glorimar Marrero Sánchez

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and installation La Pecera marks her Feature Film Directorial Debut In 2017 she won the Best Screenplay Award in the Unpublished Screenplay Competition of the XXXIX Edition of the New Latin American Film Festival in Havana Cuba That same year she premiered Revuelo en Roosevelt a piece of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 CoProduction 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 artistinresidence 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