Alex Márquez (film editor)

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Alex Márquez is an American film editor who has overseen various international cinema productions, including Alexander , El búfalo de la noche , Otis , Savages and Snowden .

life and career

After studying English literature and linguistics from 1992 to 1996 at the University of California in Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree , Alex Márquez began his career as an editor in the late 1990s. First as an assistant editor for the TV series Team Knight Rider, then under the director Oliver Stone for its cinema production Every Damn Sunday, an athlete's film with Al Pacino in the lead role. After various engagements in short and documentary films in the early 2000s, he edited Oliver Stone's historical epic Alexander in 2004 together with his colleagues Yann Hervé and Thomas J. Nordberg. This was followed by further commissions for cinema productions such as El búfalo de la noche by director Jorge Hernandez Aldana in 2007, for the US film Otis by Tony Krantz from 2008 and again in 2012 for Oliver Stone's thriller Savages with the cast Aaron Taylor-Johnson , Taylor Kitsch and Blake Lively . In 2016, he directed Stone's drama Snowden with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the title role.

In addition, Alex Márquez worked from 2012 to 2013 for ten episodes for the TV series Oliver Stone - The History of America .

Filmography (selection)

Feature films

watch TV

  • 2017: La Quinceañera (TV series, 7 episodes)

Short or documentary films

  • 2000: Where's Charlie? (Short film)
  • 2003: Comandante (documentary film)
  • 2004: America Undercover (TV documentary series, 1 episode)
  • 2006: Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (documentary)
  • 2007: Bomb It (documentary)
  • 2008: Clown (short film)
  • 2012: Castro in Winter (documentary)
  • 2012–2013: Oliver Stone - The History of America (TV documentary series, 10 episodes)
  • 2014: Mi Amigo Hugo (documentary)
  • 2015: Alivio (documentary)
  • 2015: The Propaganda Game (documentary)

literature

  • Alex Marquez. In: Film-Dienst, Volume 58, Issues 1-6. , Catholic Institute for Media Information, Catholic Film Commission for Germany, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Marquez. In: Constantine Santas, James M. Wilson, Maria Colavito, Djoymi Baker: The Encyclopedia of Epic Films. , Scarecrow Press, 2014, p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Marquez, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film editor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century