Pedro H. Murcia was born in Puerto Barrios, Izabal, Guatemala. He graduated from the Cinema School at Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala City. Murcia is the owner and head of the production company Cine Caribe. He worked as a co-producer on the Guatemalan-American co-production, Cadejo Blanco, a feature film directed by American filmmaker Justin Lerner that was shot in his hometown of Puerto Barrios. Murcia was recently the first Guatemalan ever admitted to the prestigious School of Theater, Film & Television at UCLA to pursue his MFA in Production/Directing.