Join our newsletter!

Sign up

Menu

Jaripeo

Person in dress and blond wig lassoing animal off frame with cowboys all around

This film offers a queer perspective on the jaripeo, a central Mexican style of rodeo known for its traditional cowboys and displays of machismo.

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Headshot of man
Efraín Mojica

Director/Producer

Efraín Mojica is a photographer, filmmaker, and performance artist from Michoacán. Their work has shown in galleries around the world including in Berlin, Barcelona, and Mexico City. Their filmmaking is heavily influenced by their work as a conceptual artist which explores the translation and interpolation of light, sound, and matter.

Headshot of woman
Rebecca Zweig

Director/Producer

Rebecca Zweig is a filmmaker, journalist, and poet based in Mexico City. Her work is featured in The New York Times, The Nation, and Revista Nexos, among others, and has been supported by Chicken & Egg Pictures, Sundance Institute, and SFFILM. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Teaching and Writing Fellow.

Headshot of woman
Sarah Strunin

Producer

Sarah Strunin is a documentary producer living in Los Angeles, California. She has worked as a producer at This Machine Filmworks overseeing projects in production and development, and has collaborated closely with award-winning directors Liza Mandelup, R.J. Cutler, Cecilia Peck, Nancy Schwartzman, and Ben Sinclair.