JARIPEO is a feature hybrid documentary that journeys to Michoacán’s
hypermasculine rodeos. What starts as a celebration of tradition, descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing. A reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.

About The Team

Efraín Mojica (Co-Director & Producer) is a photographer, filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist from Michoacán, living in Mexico City. Their work has shown in galleries around the world including Kunstverein Neukolln and MZ Galleries in Berlin, Magia Roja in Barcelona, the Factory in Seattle and most recently Museo Tlatelolco in Mexico City. Video art has always been a
central part of Efraín’s work and their filmmaking is heavily influenced by their work as a conceptual artist which explores the translation and interpolation of different mediums – light, sound, and matter.

Rebecca Zweig (Co-Director & Producer) 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, the Sundance Institute, SFFILM, and the Points North Institute. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Teaching and Writing Fellow. Her filmmaking is largely shaped by her poetic practice.

Sarah Strunin (Producer) is a documentary producer living in Los Angeles, CA. She has worked closely with award-winning directors Liza Mandelup, R.J. Cutler, Cecilia Peck, Nancy Schwartzman and Ben Sinclair, among others. In 2022 and 2023 she worked as a Producer at This Machine Filmworks, working under EVP Elise Pearlstein, where she oversaw several of their projects in development and production, and continues to work with This Machine as a contracting Producer. The independent films she is currently producing have together received support from Sundance, ITVS, Arte, Catapult, Chicken & Egg, SF Film, and RandomGood.