Juan Pablo González
Glendale, CA
A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, Juan Pablo González is a filmmaker whose work spans fiction and nonfiction. His debut short film The Solitude of Memory (2014) received the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Short at Slamdance in 2015. Juan Pablo’s short piece, Las Nubes, premiered at the Festival de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (Havana), 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. His mid-length debut, Caballerango premiered at IDFA in 2018 and played at Ambulante, FICUNAM, BAM Cinema Fest, True/False, among many others. 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. Juan Pablo was awarded the 2022 True Vision Award at the True/False Film Festival that included a retrospective of his documentary and fiction work at that year ‘s festival. Juan Pablo’s body of work is largely set in his hometown of Atotonilco el Alto, 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. Juan Pablo is a 2024 MacDowell Fellow.
From Juan Pablo González’s The Measure of Time, 2024. Photograph by Gerardo Guerra.
From Juan Pablo González’s The Measure of Time, 2024. Photograph by Gerardo Guerra.
From Juan Pablo González’s The Measure of Time, 2024. Photograph by Gerardo Guerra.
The Measure of Time
Juan Pablo González is a filmmaker whose work spans fiction and non-fiction. His films have screened and received awards at festivals such as Rotterdam, Sundance, San Sebastián, among others.
Artist BioThe Measure of Time is a feature-length documentary set in Milpillas, Jalisco. The film recounts the day when Pablo, Beto’s older brother, returned home for the first time in 20 years. Pablo migrated to the US when he was seventeen-years-old and was not able to go back to Milpillas until he was 37. Beto, in the meantime, stayed and became the pillar of his entire family. The film recounts the day of Pablo’s return.