International Short Film Competition

Las Nubes

Juan Pablo González
Mexico
2017
20'
Spanish Premiere
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Description

The car ride that the film's director and lead character take down a country road in the small town of Las Nubes de Jalisco is not long. It is, however, enough to stir up the character's memories of the daily fear and continuous harassment exerted by drug traffickers in Mexico. (LGV)

Awards and festivals

- Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) (2018)
- True/False (2018)
- Lincoln Center: Neighboring Scenes Program (2018)
- Ambulante Film Festival (2018)
- Full Frame (2018)
- É Tudo Verdade / It’s All True Film Festival (2018)
- International Film Festival of New Latin American Film (2017)


 

Biography of the director

Las Nubes

Juan Pablo González
Named one of the Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” for 2015, he is an emerging Mexican filmmaker whose work includes documentary, fiction and experimental films. His work and collaborations have screened at film festivals such as Cannes, Locarno, IDFA, Edinburgh, Slamdance, Morelia, Full Frame, among others. He has received grants from the Mexican National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA), the Austin Film Society, and received a Jesse H Jones Fellowship for his thesis project at the University of Texas at Austin. Juan Pablo currently teaches at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in the MFA in Film Directing.

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Las Nubes
Finished
Sessions

May

Friday 4

  • 19:00 h
  • Cineteca. Sala Borau

Sunday 6

  • 21:30 h
  • Cineteca. Sala Borau
Data sheet
Director
Juan Pablo González
Language
Spanish - Subtitled in English
Cinematography
Jim Hickcox
Editing
Juan Pablo González
Sound
Miguel Mata
Producción
Jamie Gonçalves, Makena Buchanan
Contact
Makena Buchanan - Sin Sitio Cine - +1 713 494 7184 - cine@sinsitiocine.com
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