Juan Pablo González is a Mexican filmmaker whose practice spans fiction and non-fiction cinema. His work is primarily set in Atotonilco el Alto, the town where he grew up in rural Mexico. González is concerned with representations of the rural, immigration and the intersection between urban and country life in different communities around the Jalisco Highlands. His work reflects deeply on the mutability of memory and its trace across the spaces we inhabit.
His latest film, Dos estaciones, premiered at the World Dramatic Competition in Sundance and was later exhibited in festivals around the world such as San Sebastián, Morelia and New Directors/New Films at MoMA and Lincoln Center of New York. Dos estaciones was nominated for Best Feature at The Gothams 2022.
In 2024, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his film work and was hired as a tenured associate professor at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
While at MacDowell, González worked with his co-writer and co-director on the screenplay for Agua Caliente, a feature-film that will be filmed in his hometown in the Highlands of Jalisco where all of his film work is based. This film will be shot in the fall of 2025 and will be his third feature film and first co-directing with Ana Isabel Fernández.
