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Film Language
Spanish
Co-Directors
Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig
Executive Producers
Carrie Lozano, Lizzie Gillett, Ian Bonhôte
Producer
Sarah Strunin
Co-Producers
Carine Chichkowsky, Gerardo Guerra, Juan Pablo González
Editor
Analía Goethals
Co-Editor
Analía Goethals
Cinematographers
Josué Eber Morales, Gerardo Guerra
Sound
Maria Rojas
Composers
Emilia Ezeta, Marton Radics
Every Christmas in Penjamillo, Michoacán, the annual jaripeo unites locals and returning U.S. migrants in a celebration of cowboy culture, nostalgia, and masculinity, while beneath the spectacle, a hidden queer subculture quietly unfolds. Filmmaker Efraín, who grew up between Penjamillo and Riverside, California, blends personal experience with Super 8 footage, stylized memory, and raw verité to interrogate the machismo at its core. Through encounters with Noé, a macho cowboy living partly in secret, and Joseph, a flamboyant jaripeo superfan and community pillar, the film becomes an intimate journey of self-recognition within a traditionally masculine world.
Efraín Mojica is a Michoacán-born artist based in Mexico City. Their multidisciplinary work, shown from Berlin to Mexico City, explores light, sound, and matter through a conceptual art lens, with video art central to their practice. JARIPEO is their first feature film.
Rebecca Zweig is a Mexico City–based filmmaker and writer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times and The Nation and has received support from Sundance and Chicken & Egg Pictures. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, her filmmaking is shaped by her poetic practice. JARIPEO is her first feature film.