Author Abel Muñoz Hénonin

Abel Muñoz Hénonin

Abel Muñoz Hénonin is editor-in-chief of the Mexican film magazine Icónica, and teaches Film History at the Escuela Superior de Cine, and Methodologies of Research at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico. He is a doctoral candidate at the European Graduate School. He co-ordinated, alongside Claudia Curiel de Icaza, two volumes of Reflexiones sobre cine mexicano contemporáneo: Ficción (2012) and Documental (2014). @eltalabel

Fernández, Emilio “Indio”

Abel Muñoz Hénonin

April 2020

Great Directors

b. 26 March 1906, Mineral del Hondo, Coahuila, Mexico d. 6 August 1986, Mexico City Emilio “Indio” Fernández set himself as a goal, perhaps one of the most unlikely film projects ever: to build a nation, Me...

The echo of the Three Amigos

Abel Muñoz Hénonin

October 2019

This is what defined cinema in the 2010s

The three best known Latin-American filmmakers worldwide, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón, and Guillermo del Toro, are the surviving core of the greatest American film tradition, alongside Paul Thom...

The dream of a Mexican film industry

Abel Muñoz Hénonin

December 2018

Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox

Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. By Abel Muñoz Hénonin Translated by Gabriella Munoz In Mexico, cinema is not something that is thought of in terms of present and future. This is a curious ...