Death and violence are a natural part of daily life in this small rural Mexican town, where, through different characters’ stories, we learn about the final days of Nando, a young cowboy who like so many others in the community took his own life. (JY)
- International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. IDFA (2018)
- True/False (2018)
- Guadalajara International Film Festival (2019)
- FICUNAM (2018)
- Ann Arbor Film Festival (2019)
- Full Frame (2019)
- Dallas International Film Festival (2019)
Named one of the Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” for 2015, Juan Pablo González is a Mexican filmmaker whose work has screened at Cannes, Rotterdam, IDFA, the Lincoln Center of New York, the Mexico City Cinematheque, Habana, Ambulante, among others. He’s received support from the Mexican National Fund for Culture and Arts, the Sundance Institute, the Venice Biennale and the Austin Film Society. He currently teaches in the Film Directing Program at the California Institute of the Arts. Juan Pablo's practice spans between fiction and non-fiction cinema. His work is primarily set in Atotonilco el Alto, the town where he grew up in rural Mexico. Juan Pablo is concerned with representations of the rural, drug violence, 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.