On the Wall (2023)
70 min - 4k - Chile and Peru.
Directed by:
Juan Francisco González
Produced by:
Catalina Alarcon & Diego Sarmiento
Production:
DOCLA & HD PERU
SYNOPSIS (ENG)
Mono González is 76 years old, finds himself in a Chile undergoing a social transformation and a change in its constitution, in order to experience these facts of the country he decides to make a artistic tour. He initiates a journey that will take them to traverse him along Chile, carrying out one of the most ambitious projects of his artistic career, a series of different large-scale murals and serigraphs that portray his hope for social change and justice that he longs for his country.
Markets and incentives
2020: Moulin d'Ande Screenwriting Residency (France).
2021: Connecta (Chile).
2021: CINELEBU LAB (Chile).
2021: SANFIC - Santiago Lab (Chile).
Juan Francisco Gonzalez (Chile, 1989)
Master in Documentary Film from EICTV (Cuba) and has completed an internship in documentary filmmaking at Ateliers Varan (Paris). He is also co-founder of DOCLA (Latin American Documentary Network).
In 2012 he contributed documentary pieces for the website mafi.tv and participated in the collective documentary feature films "PROPAGANDA" (2014) and "DIOS" (2019).
In 2020, he completed the short film “Maria K”, presented at the Cinéma du Réel festival, obtaining the “Première Fenêtre” Audience Award and a Special Mention from the FIDOCS Jury (2020), as well as at Doclisboa, FIDBA, among others. This same year he completed a screenwriting residency at the Moulin d'Andé (France). He has also been selected for “Talents Guadalajara” (2020), “Talents Buenos Aires” (2021), Basecamp Locarno (2021).