[ alex c. muñoz]

Alex C. Muñoz is an award winning filmmaker.  He  is a social artist who has followed out the shifting senses and directions of the marginal and the margin to create beyond hierarchies of opposition films that are imbued with the savvy of minority perspectives. Muñoz went to film school a second time when he began directing films with  incarcerated youth from marginalized communities. Drawing on his experience supervising and shaping their collective storytelling efforts Muñoz directed award winning documentary and fiction films (for example, Little Scrappy Boy and Spout). The margin of marginalization that social conditions impose upon a population is also the margin the adolescent in-group occupies and affirms. Where the margin is that's where the innovativeness of an individual or a people is, too. Muñoz focuses on teens in crisis, who are the identified patients of a marginalized group's overall alienation on the obstacle course of adaptation to an imposed adaptation. A teenager at heart, Muñoz addresses the marginalized subjects of his documentary and fiction films as insiders hiding and protecting their deepest concerns within an in-group idiom. 

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