Juan Pablo González (b. 1984, Atotonilco el Alto, México) is a Mexican director whose work spans fiction and nonfiction. His 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 experimental short, "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. His mid-length debut, "Caballerango" premiered at IDFA in 2018 and played at Ambulante, FICUNAM, BAM Cinema Fest, DokuFest, Guadalajara (FICG), 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. "Dos Estaciones" (2022) is his feature length debut and will have its world Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. The film has been supported by IMCINE, Nouvelle Aquitaine Fond de Soutien au Cinéma, the Venice Biennale, San Sebastián, Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Institute and Cine Qua Non. Juan Pablo’s body of work is largely set in his hometown of Atotonilco el Alto, he was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2015, has been a fellow of the prestigious Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA) in Mexico and was awarded the 2021 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise. Juan Pablo is the co-director of the Film Directing program at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).