A Wolfpack called Ernesto (Una jauría llamada Ernesto)

Everardo González

In Mexico, 350 000 people have been killed over the last 15 years by armed perpetrators, 30,000 of which were under 18. A Wolfpack Called Ernesto is a travel exploration to the bowels of the most fragile link on the chain: kids. It follows the paths of the youths collectively named “Ernesto” - victims as well as sicarios - who in a certain moment of their lives had access to a gun, used it to kill, and soon became a part of the many pieces of a crime organization. The film combines true stories and parallels them with the manufacturing of a gun. Accompanied by the kinetic, dirty electronic score, the two stories' convergent paths twist in a double helix of violence which leaves one person dead by firearms every 41 minutes.

Mexico, France, Switzerland 2023, '78

DIRECTOR: Everardo González

SCENARIO: Óscar Balderas, Daniela Rea, Everardo González

CAMERA: María Secco

MONTAGE: Paloma López Carrillo

MUSIC: Andrés Sánchéz Maher, Haxah, Konk Reyes

PRODUCERS: Roberto Garza, Inna Payán

PRODUCTION: Animal de Luz, Artegios

FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

Havana FF (2023)
Bergen IFF (2023)
Hot Docs IDF (2023)
Geneva FF (2023)
Guadalajara IFF (2023)

Everardo González

Everardo González is one of the most solid voices of the documentary genre in Latin America. From his filmography, the following stand out: The pulque song (2003), The old thieves (2007), The open sky (2011), Cuates de Australia (2011), El paso (2015) and The Devil’s freedom (2017), films screened and awarded at various festivals such as IDFA, Berlinale, Toulouse, Locarno, Montreal, BAFICI, Sarajevo, Guadalajara, Morelia, among others.

His film La libertad del diablo (2017) was recognized with the Amnesty International Award at the Berlinale. In 2019, he contributed to the New York Times platform Opdocs with Children from the Narcozone which was nominated to News and Doc Emmy Award nomination in the Outstanding New Approaches category. He is a member of the Academies of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Mexico and the United States. His most recent films are Yermo and Lopon from 2020.

In 2022, he joined the Network of Experts of the Global Initiative Against Organized Crime.

A Wolfpack called Ernesto (Una jauría llamada Ernesto)

Everardo González

Everardo González

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