Juan Pablo González

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 Pablos feature length debut received the Special Jury Award for Acting at the Sundance Film Festival and screened at New DirectorsNew Films MoMA Lincoln Center San Sebastián International Film Festival and Morelia International Film Festival FICM where Teresa Sánchez received the Best Acting Award His midlength debut Caballerango premiered at IDFA in 2018 and played at Ambulante FICUNAM BAM Cinema Fest TrueFalse 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 Austins Department of Art and Art history Juan Pablos 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 followup the scripted La espera 2016 premiered at SXSW and won the Grand Jury Prize at the New Orleans Film Festival In 2017 Juan Pablos short piece Las Nubes premiered at the Festival de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano en la Habana then went on to play at Rotterdam IFFR TrueFalse 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 TrueFalse Film Festival that included a program focused on his documentary and fiction work at that year s festival He was named one of Filmmaker Magazines 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 Pablos work had a spotlight program at The Center for Fine Arts BOZAR in Brussels Belgium Currently Juan Pablos entire body of work is being featured on the Criterion Channel