Juan Pablo González

Directing

Juan Pablo González

Born

1983-08-13 (43)

Place of birth

Atotonilco, Jalisco, Mexico

Known for

Directing

Credits

8 titles

A 2024 Guggenheim and MacDowell Fellow, Juan Pablo González is a filmmaker whose work spans fiction and nonfiction. His films are largely based in his hometown of Atotonilco el Alto. Dos Estaciones (2022), Juan Pablo’s feature length debut, received the Special Jury Award for Acting at the Sundance Film Festival and screened at New Directors/New Films (MoMA / Lincoln Center), San Sebastián International Film Festival and Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) where Teresa Sánchez received the Best Acting Award. His mid-length debut, Caballerango premiered at IDFA in 2018 and played at Ambulante, FICUNAM, BAM Cinema Fest, True/False, among many others. In 2020 Juan Pablo had his first sol…

Known for

Las Nubes poster
NR

A weathered man is partially visible in a rear-view mirror as he relates getting mixed up with the wrong kind.

Las Nubes

2018

Horse Wrangler poster
6.0

Nando, a young horse wrangler in a rural Mexican village, has taken his own life following a disagreement with his father. Caballerango shows the boy’s family members and townspeople as they reckon with the new realities borne out of this inexplicable tragedy. Each account of Nando’s story reveals a different aspect of this rural town, which is deeply affected by modernization. The confrontation between the centuries-old ways of life and the modern-day world seems to be creating serious identity crises among the younger generation. The story is told in a patient, observational style with methodical shots of the landscape, ranches, and of the two white horses, whom Nando and his father tended to. Those horses, the last to see Nando alive, connect us to an ethereal sensation of almost otherworldly mystical beings.

Horse Wrangler

2018

Dos estaciones poster
5.7

Fifty-year-old Maria Garcia is the owner of the Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory struggling to stay afloat, and the final hold-over from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco; the rest have folded to foreign corporations. Once one of the wealthiest people in town, Maria knows her current financial situation is untenable. When a persistent plague and an unexpected flood cause irreversible damage, she is forced to do everything she can to save her community's main source of economy and pride.

Dos estaciones

2022

Joe Vasconcellos ★ To bad weather, good face poster
NR

Recorded on October 26, 2002 at the Estadio Victor Jara, Santiago, Chile.

Joe Vasconcellos ★ To bad weather, good face

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The Solitude of Memory poster
NR

José’s son, Nando, has committed suicide and José repeatedly runs through the final words that he spoke to him.

The Solitude of Memory

2014

La espera (The Wait) poster
NR

A quietist exploration on the way fear shapes the contour of spaces, The Wait portrays at once the straits of immigrant life and the haunting soundscape of reprieve.

La espera (The Wait)

2016

Behind the camera

Las Nubes poster
NR

A weathered man is partially visible in a rear-view mirror as he relates getting mixed up with the wrong kind.

Las Nubes

2018

Horse Wrangler poster
6.0

Nando, a young horse wrangler in a rural Mexican village, has taken his own life following a disagreement with his father. Caballerango shows the boy’s family members and townspeople as they reckon with the new realities borne out of this inexplicable tragedy. Each account of Nando’s story reveals a different aspect of this rural town, which is deeply affected by modernization. The confrontation between the centuries-old ways of life and the modern-day world seems to be creating serious identity crises among the younger generation. The story is told in a patient, observational style with methodical shots of the landscape, ranches, and of the two white horses, whom Nando and his father tended to. Those horses, the last to see Nando alive, connect us to an ethereal sensation of almost otherworldly mystical beings.

Horse Wrangler

2018

Horse Wrangler poster
6.0

Nando, a young horse wrangler in a rural Mexican village, has taken his own life following a disagreement with his father. Caballerango shows the boy’s family members and townspeople as they reckon with the new realities borne out of this inexplicable tragedy. Each account of Nando’s story reveals a different aspect of this rural town, which is deeply affected by modernization. The confrontation between the centuries-old ways of life and the modern-day world seems to be creating serious identity crises among the younger generation. The story is told in a patient, observational style with methodical shots of the landscape, ranches, and of the two white horses, whom Nando and his father tended to. Those horses, the last to see Nando alive, connect us to an ethereal sensation of almost otherworldly mystical beings.

Horse Wrangler

2018

Dos estaciones poster
5.7

Fifty-year-old Maria Garcia is the owner of the Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory struggling to stay afloat, and the final hold-over from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco; the rest have folded to foreign corporations. Once one of the wealthiest people in town, Maria knows her current financial situation is untenable. When a persistent plague and an unexpected flood cause irreversible damage, she is forced to do everything she can to save her community's main source of economy and pride.

Dos estaciones

2022

Dos estaciones poster
5.7

Fifty-year-old Maria Garcia is the owner of the Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory struggling to stay afloat, and the final hold-over from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco; the rest have folded to foreign corporations. Once one of the wealthiest people in town, Maria knows her current financial situation is untenable. When a persistent plague and an unexpected flood cause irreversible damage, she is forced to do everything she can to save her community's main source of economy and pride.

Dos estaciones

2022

Joe Vasconcellos ★ To bad weather, good face poster
NR

Recorded on October 26, 2002 at the Estadio Victor Jara, Santiago, Chile.

Joe Vasconcellos ★ To bad weather, good face

—

The Solitude of Memory poster
NR

José’s son, Nando, has committed suicide and José repeatedly runs through the final words that he spoke to him.

The Solitude of Memory

2014

La espera (The Wait) poster
NR

A quietist exploration on the way fear shapes the contour of spaces, The Wait portrays at once the straits of immigrant life and the haunting soundscape of reprieve.

La espera (The Wait)

2016