Juan Pablo González (born August 13, 1984) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and editor known for his 2018 film

Caballerango ''Caballerango'' (''Horse Wrangler'') is a 2018 Mexican documentary film, director Juan Pablo González's debut feature. It's a portrait of residents of Milpillas in Los Altos de Jalisco as they grapple with the sudden death of a young horse wr ...

, and the 2022 Sundance award winner

Dos Estaciones ''Dos Estaciones'' is a 2022 Mexican-Spanish language drama film directed by Juan Pablo González. It premiered in the World Cinematic Dramatic Competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, where lead actress Teresa Sánchez won the Special Jur ...

. His work primarily focuses on the Los Altos region of Mexico, where he's from. In 2015 González was named one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by Filmmaker Magazine. The following year, his one-take short Las Nubes premiered at Havana and at the 2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam. In 2018, his critically acclaimed mid-length documentary Caballerango premiered at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). He is currently the co-director of film at the

California Institute of the Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both ...

(CalArts). In 2020 he won the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Filmmaking.

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