- Is good friends with (Brazilian film director) Emanuel Mendes. The two frequently meet, watch films together and read each other's screenplays. In 2014, Guilherme starred in Mendes's short film "É Quase Verdade" (It's Almost True), in the role of a typical Third World film director, and who gives a killing testimony of what it is to be a filmmaker in Brazil.
- During the beginning of the 1990s, his film "Scent of Gardenia" was the only film production being shot in Brazil - due to the extinction of Embrafilme (a defunct governmental organ responsible for approving and financing the cinema in Brazil) by the Fernando Collor de Mello presidency.
- Graduated in Engineering from Mackenzie University, in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Started out in the Boca do Lixo - a decadent area of São Paulo in the 1970s where most low-budget films (usually called pornochanchadas, a mix of comedy and the erotic) were shot. He was a Production Assistant on 8 films made there and was so well-organized on the set that a lot of directors started calling him for their productions. He later on got money to direct his first film and was able to evolve to a more personal cinema. He became one of the most talented and sophisticated film directors in Brazil - with a keen eye to detail and elegant productions mostly influenced by his love for the cinema.
- Was one of the directors attached to the project of "Ed Wood" (1994), "but soon after Tim Burton got involved and the producers chose him instead", according to his own words, and one of the many fun stories of his autobiography, published in Brazil by Imprensa Oficial.
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