Noel Quiñones(I)
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Noel Quiñones (born July 20, 1959, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico) is a
Puerto Rican screenwriter, film director and film producer. He left
Puerto Rico at age 18 to study cinematography and filmmaking at
Columbia College in Hollywood, California. Immediately upon completion
of is studies, Quiñones created his own company and began to produce
television commercials for international clients. Profits from his
commercial work allowed him to begin work on his first feature film,
"Columbus' Legacy" (original title in Spanish "Raíces Eternas"), a film
about the evolution of Puerto Rican culture. At its release in 1985,
"Columbus' Legacy" garnered critical acclaim and attracted the
attention of the Department of Education in Quiñones' native Puerto
Rico, who invited him to tour the island's schools to show his film.
Quiñones produced two short films in 1989. "The Bell" and "San Juan
Story". Among several awards, each of these films was awarded a CINE
Golden Eagle in the Entertainment category in 1991. In 1994, Quiñones
began a collaboration with Tom Musca and Mark Kemble to produce "Flight
of Fancy", a feature length film that was awarded the Best Film with a
Latin Theme at the Hollywood International Film Festival (2000) and the
Best Film Award at the Renaissance City Film Festival in Rhode Island
(2000). Quiñones' most recent work includes the 2012 Emmy award winning
"Los 17", a documentary produced in 2010 about educational
transformation in a small mountain town in Puerto Rico and "100,000",
an Emmy winning documentary also produced in 2010, dealing with the
increasingly serious problem of stray dogs in Puerto Rico.