Guilherme de Almeida Prado

The boundaries between reality and fiction, the passion for the cinema, and mainly a film trajectory that started out in the Boca do Lixo in São Paulo so he could follow his own path as a very personal director, are some of the main characteristics of Guilherme de Almeida Prado. It was via all these particularities that he's gotten the most successful films of his career: The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema; Scent of Gardenia; The Magic Hour and Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga?. Born in Ribeirão Preto, Guilherme graduated in Engineering from Mackenzie University in São Paulo. He always knew he wanted the cinema. Started out as a Production Assistant for the Brazilian Pornochanchada in the 1970s, and soon after he was shooting his first feature, the low-budget production of As Taras de Todos Nós, which was a huge popular success. Thanks to this film, he could evolve to a more personal kind of cinema, with The Flower of Desire, which already brought out the elements that would make him known and that would explode in his next movie, The Lady from the Shanghai Cinema, winner of many national and international prizes. The Magic Hour helped to establish either the career of producer Sara Silveira and his longtime friend Carlos Reichenbach. He debuted as an actor in O Corpo and later on in It's Almost True, from his friend and fellow director Emanuel Mendes, in 2014. As of the end 2017, Guilherme prepares the release of A Palavra while still working on other scripts.