Juan Pablo González
Director, producer, editor and writer, also cinematographer · Born August 13, 1983 (43) · Atotonilco, Jalisco, Mexico
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 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. His mid-length debut, Caballerango premiered at IDFA in 2018 and played at Ambulante, FICUNAM, BAM Cinema Fest, True/False, 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 Austin’s Department of Art and Art history. Juan Pablo’s 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 follow-up, the scripted La espera (2016), premiered at SXSW and won the Grand Jury Prize at the New Orleans Film Festival. In 2017, Juan Pablo’s short piece, Las Nubes, premiered at the Festival de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano en la Habana, 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. Juan Pablo was awarded the 2022 True Vision Award at the True/False Film Festival that included a program focused on his documentary and fiction work at that year ‘s festival. 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. In 2023 Juan Pablo’s work had a spotlight program at The Center for Fine Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels, Belgium. Currently, Juan Pablo’s entire body of work is being featured on the Criterion Channel.
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Biography from TMDB.
- August 13, 1983 (43)
- Atotonilco, Jalisco, Mexico
- Director, producer, editor and writer, also cinematographer
- 3 on Motif · 9 credits in all
What are Juan Pablo González's films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 Motif titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Survival.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 3
Light 0 · Serious 2 · Dark 1
Grounded 3 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 2 · Charged 1 · Intense 0
Steady 3 · Shifting 0 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 3 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 1
Resolved 0 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 3
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Juan Pablo González's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 3 Motif titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Juan Pablo González's titles on Motif; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
9 credits, 3 with a Motif page.
More Than A House (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2026)
Jaripeo (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2026)
Dos estaciones(2022)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
Acts of Love(2021)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films
Caballerango(2018)
Midcredits score: 68th percentile of all films
Las Nubes (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2018)
La espera (The Wait) (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2016)
The Solitude of Memory (not in the Motif catalog yet)(2014)
Joe Vasconcellos ★ To bad weather, good face (not in the Motif catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 8 titles, 7 of them dated from 2014 to 2026.
How do Juan Pablo González's films land?
Their typical Motif film has a Midcredits score in the 54th percentile, the median of all 3; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 61st percentile for acclaim.
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
1 of their 3 titles is Divisive.
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Mixed1
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on Motif; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their Motif titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Juan Pablo González work with?
People who share at least 2 of Juan Pablo González's Motif titles, grouped by what they did on them; J. Gonçalves shares the most, 3.
Producers
- J. GonçalvesShared titles: Dos estaciones (2022), Acts of Love (2021), Caballerango (2018)See all 3 shared titles with J. Gonçalves
- Ilana ColemanShared titles: Dos estaciones (2022), Caballerango (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Ilana Coleman
- Makena BuchananShared titles: Dos estaciones (2022), Caballerango (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Makena Buchanan
- Isidore BethelShared titles: Acts of Love (2021), Caballerango (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Isidore Bethel
Mixed roles
- Ana Isabel FernándezShared titles: Dos estaciones (2022), Caballerango (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Ana Isabel Fernández
- Gerardo GuerraShared titles: Dos estaciones (2022), Caballerango (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Gerardo Guerra