DOS ESTACIONES BY JUAN PABLO GONZáLEZ
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT - world CINEMA - mexican traditions - lgbt+
SYNOPSIS
Fifty-year-old Maria Garcia is the owner of the Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory struggling to stay afloat, and the final hold-over from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco; the rest have folded to foreign corporations. Once one of the wealthiest people in town, Maria knows her current financial situation is untenable. When a persistent plague and an unexpected flood cause irreversible damage, she is forced to do everything she can to save her community's main source of economy and pride.
Original title: Dos Estaciones Country: Mexico, France Language: Spanish Production year: 2022 Length: 99min
CAST
Teresa Sánchez, Tatín Vera, Rafaela Fuentes, Manuel García-Rulfo
CREW
Director: Juan Pablo González Screenwriters: Juan Pablo González, Ana Isabel Fernández, Ilana Coleman Producers: Jamie Gonçalves, Ilana Coleman, Bruna Haddad, Makena Buchanan Production: Sin Sitio Cine, In Vivo Films World sales: Luxbox
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Sundance Film Festival - World Cinema Dramatic Competition
New Directors/New Films
San Diego Latino
True/False - True Vision award winner
Houston Latino
San Sebastian Film Festival - Horizontes Latinos
Sun Valley
North x North
Chicago Latino
New Horizons - Discoveries
River Run
Latin Wave - Museum of Fine Arts
Mooov
IFFBoston
Cinema Tuscon
Rooftop Film Festival
Outfest: Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Edinburgh International Film Festival
JUAN PABLO GONZáLEZ
Director/Screenwriter
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).
FILMOGRAPHY
2022 – Dos Estaciones (Debut feature film)
2018 – Caballerango (Documentary feature)
2017 – Las Nubes (Short film)
2016 – La Espera (Short film)
2014 – The Solitude of Memory (Debut short film)
PRESS QUOTES
A bracingly potent distillation of drama, psychological portraiture and passionate flouting of clichés, (…) fronted by an arrestingly contained performance by Teresa Sánchez.
Perfect balance of ingredients.
Guerra (DoP) delivers a parade of magnificently conceived and controlled compositions.
