Hispano Durón
- Associate Professor
Contact Info
Lawrence
Biography —
Hispano Durón was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 1965. He obtained a bachelor’s degree at International School of Film & Television in Cuba in 1990, a Master of Arts degree in Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California in 1995, and a doctoral degree at the University of Kansas in 2014. He has taught film courses at the National Pedagogical University and the National Autonomous University in Honduras. In 2018, Durón was granted the National Identity Award by the National Congress of Honduras. In 2022 he was selected as the Langston Hughes Visiting Professor and, since the fall semester of 2023, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film & Media Studies of the University of Kansas.
Research —
Research interests:
- Latin American Cinema
- Central American Cinema
- Central American History
Teaching —
Teaching interests:
- Screenwriting
- Directing
- Latin American Film
Creative Works —
Hispano Durón has written and directed several short documentary and fictional films, among which are El sueño de Memo (2011) and El lugar de la cruz (2013), both winners of the Best of Show award at the Tensie Awards of the University of Kansas. He also wrote and directed the feature-length films Anita, la cazadora de insectos (2002) and Morazán (2017), the latter being selected as the first Honduran submission to the Academy Awards. In 2021, he wrote and directed Amaneció al fin, Valle y la independencia de Centroamérica, a 5-episodes podcast series that was broadcasted through radio stations in Honduras and Costa Rica. Durón is currently working in collaboration with historian Dr. Darío A. Euraque, on the production of a documentary focused on the life and times of Rafael López Padilla, a controversial banana grower during the banana industry boom of the past century.