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Juan Pablo González is a Mexican filmmaker who explores both fiction and documentary history, set primarily in his hometown in the mountains of Jalisco, Mexico, an area known for its tequila production. With his latest film, Two seasons (Two stations), Gonzalez makes his narrative feature directorial debut.
The film is an intimate portrait of Maria Garcia (Teresa Sanchez), a middle-aged tequila factory owner who hires a new manager, Rafaela (Rafaela Fuentes), to help her struggling company. The two strong women develop intense bonds with each other – even romantic ones.
“The character of Maria is based on this generation of people who are in their 50s or 60s, who live in small towns in Mexico where tequila is made, and they’ve inherited the tequila business from their families,” says Gonzalez. “Some of them are doing well, but others are being forced to sell their family businesses to corporations who are buying these tequila factories for a fraction of what they’re worth.”
After winning the World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Dramatic Cinema (for Sanchez’s performance) at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Two seasons will begin screening in US theaters this month, showing at the IFC Center in New York on September 9 and at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles on September 16, before a national distribution.
Gonzalez made several short films before moving on to directing Chivalry (Horse Wrestler), his 2018 documentary about a small Mexican village and its inhabitants following the death of a local horse hunter. In addition to filmmaking, Gonzalez is co-director of the film directing program at the California Institute of the Arts. From his home in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Gonzalez shares with A.frame five of the films that shaped his career.
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