Jamie Gonçalves is a Brazilian-American producer. He’s a 2018 Sundance Institute Creative Fiction Producing Fellow and Impact Partners Documentary Fellow. Filmmaker Magazine named Gonçalves as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2015, and he previously served as a programming associate at the True/False Film Fest. His list of productions includes CABALLERANGO, KILLING THEM SAFELY, BALLOONFEST, THE WATER SLIDE, LAS NUBES. He’s producing upcoming works by Nathan Truesdell and Nathan Silver, Isidore Bethel, Edwin Martinez, Juan Pablo González, Ilana Coleman, Kamau Bilal, Chy Chi, and Nick Berardini. Gonçalves co-founded Sin Sitio Cine, a company focused on producing works by directors working within their own communities. He is based between Columbia, Missouri and Mexico City.
In the bucolic hills of the Jalisco Highlands, iron-willed businesswoman María García fights the impending collapse of her family’s tequila factory. As she fights to keep her family’s legacy alive, her understanding of the world is shattered by forces out of her control.