Guillermo de Oliveira

Guillermo de Oliveira December 6 1986 is a Spanish film director writer and producer recognized for blending cinephile passion with visually ambitious storytelling He first gained international attention through acclaimed liveaction adaptations of video games including Max Payne Valhalla 2012 and Red Dead Redemption Seths Gold 2015 which collectively amassed millions of views on Youtube His feature documentary debut Sad Hill Unearthed Desenterrando Sad Hill 2017 chronicled the restoration of the iconic cemetery from The Good the Bad and the Ugly The film premiered at Tokyo International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2019 Goya Awards It was subsequently acquired by Netflix where it reached a global audience and attracted praise from filmmakers and cinephiles worldwide including director Sean Baker and game designer Hideo Kojima A lifelong admirer of the western genre de Oliveira served as director of the Almería Western Film Festival 20212023 and continued to build a distinctive body of work with the awardwinning shorts Sauerdogs 2022 Tegoyo 2022 and Cara de cona 2026 De Oliveira is currently completing his first fiction feature film A morte nos teus ollos a Galicianlanguage noir thriller inspired by real events and produced by Atresmedia Cine Sideral and Sétima Starring Pepe Lorente and Iván Marcos the film explores themes of corruption family violence and redemption in 1990s Galicia and marks de Oliveiras transition from acclaimed shorts and documentary filmmaking to feature narrative cinema