Ilana Coleman is a director, writer, editor and producer, working in both documentary and fiction. She is interested in exploring the construction of language; cinematic, written, and spoken, to define and imagine other realities. Coleman works between Mexico and the U.S. Her feature directorial debut, The Inventory, has received support from Sundance Institute, Field of Vision, and Ibermedia and participated at the Berlinale’s Doc Station, DocMontevideo, True/False Prism, and Open City’s Assembly Lab. She is a recipient of the Jovenes Creadores scholarship from the Mexican National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA) in 2017 and 2021. Works she has collaborated on as a producer or editor have been selected by Sundance, San Sebastián, IFFR, FICUNAM, Ambulante, DOKUFEST, Habana, the Lincoln Center of New York, and True/False. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2017. In 2020, Coleman was invited to the Rotterdam Lab, where she represented Sin Sitio Cine, a collective she co-founded which strives to champion filmmakers working within their own communities. She received her MFA in Film Directing from California Institute of the Arts. She is a professor in the Filmmaking Undergraduate Program at University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Jamie Gonçalves was a Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow and Impact Partners Producing Fellow, both in 2018. His first documentary, Killing Them Safely (IFC) by Nick Berardini, premiered in competition at Tribeca in 2015. He has multiple Juan Pablo González’s films: Las Nubes (IFFR 2017), Caballerango (IDFA 2018), and his scripted feature debut Dos estaciones (Sundance World Narrative Competition 2022). He also produced Nathan Truesdell’s Balloonfest and The Water Slide, the most watched films on The Atlantic at 17 million views. Features he is currently producing include: The Monster and the Storm by Edwin Martinez and supported by Sundance and Concordia Studios, Eight Mysterious Qualities of the Ocean by Chy Chi a Sundance Intensive Screenwriting Lab project, and The Inventory by Ilana Coleman supported by Sundance, and the Berlinale. Previously, he served as a programming associate at the True/False Film Fest. Filmmaker Magazine named him as one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2015. He is a co-founder of Sin Sitio Cine, a collective based in Mexico and the US, focused on producing works by directors working within their own communities.