Juan Pablo González
August 13, 1983
Atotonilco, Jalisco, Mexico
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 solo exhibition titled What I Do To Remember at the Visual Arts Center (VAC) at UT Austin’s Department of Art and Art history. Juan Pablo’s debut short film The Solitude of Memory (2014) had its World Premiere at the Morelia International Film Festival, its International Premiere at IDFA, and received the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Short at Slamdance in 2015. His follow-up, the scripted La espera (2016), premiered at SXSW and won the Grand Jury Prize at the New Orleans Film Festival. In 2017, Juan Pablo’s short piece, Las Nubes, premiered at the Festival de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano en la Habana, then went on to play at Rotterdam (IFFR), True/False, Lincoln Center of New York, and received the Grand Jury Prize at Festival dei Popoli. Juan Pablo was awarded the 2022 True Vision Award at the True/False Film Festival that included a program focused on his documentary and fiction work at that year ‘s festival. He was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2015, has been a fellow of the Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA) in Mexico and was awarded the 2021 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise. In 2023 Juan Pablo’s work had a spotlight program at The Center for Fine Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels, Belgium. Currently, Juan Pablo’s entire body of work is being featured on the Criterion Channel.
