Mr.
Juan Manuel González
- Director, Monterrey Int. Film Festival, Monterrey Mexico. Key
note Speaker Saturday October 3, - 1:00 pm in the Finnish Labour
Temple Main hall.
- Join Juan, in a Q and A session afterwards. Everyone is welcome
to attend -
Biography Juan Manuel González was born in Puebla, México.
He studied communications
at the Universidad de Monterrey, in Monterrey, México
and later received an
MFA in Film from Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, California,
where he studied under a Fulbright scholarship. He lives in Monterrey,
México.
He has received several grants and awards in film production,
and "Asi" a
feature film he produced in 2005, was selected for the 20 Settimana
dellla
Critica at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. His short, Al Fin,
has been
selected to many international film festivals, among them the
Edinburgh
International Film Festival in Scotland.
In 1998, he founded and has since directed the Voladero Film
Workshop, which
has produced over 40 short films, in formats from home video
to 35mm and of
all budgets. The workshop’s films have been in many international
film
festivals all over the world.
He has been director of the Monterrey International Film Festival
since its
first edition in 2005. The festival receives over 2400 entries
each year
from over 120 countries and has over 27,000 spectators. Recent
tribute
recipients have been Tommy Lee Jones, Cecilia Roth, Bruce Beresford,
Jim
Jarmusch, María Novaro, Héctor Bonilla and Tian
ZhuangZhuang.
As a photographer he has participated in several collective
exhibitions and
2 solo shows. He has been twice selected for the Nuevo León
Photography
Salon, and three times for the Nuevo León Annual Arts
Review.
Since 1996 he has taught film and screenwriting at the Universidad
de
Monterrey.
