André Guiomar

André Guiomar, born in 1988, lives in Portugal, has a Master’s Degree in Cinema and Audiovisual and a degree in Sound and Image from the Portuguese Catholic University. He has worked in several film production companies such as Vende-se Filmes, Cimbalino Filmes, Promarte and is a founding partner of Olhar de Ulisses. Since 2022 he is a Berlinale Talents.

In 2023 he premiered his short Thorn, co-directed with Mya Kaplan, in the Cannes Filmmakers’ Fortnight, involved in The Factory program. In 2022, he co-directed Saturn with Luís Costa, premiered at Guadalajara. His first feature-length documentary, Our Land, Our Altar (2020), had its world premiere at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, won the Youth Jury Award at the ZINEBI Festival and the Emerging Director Award at the Porto/Post/Doc.

In 2018 he directed the short documentary Skin of Light winner of the Doclisboa Jury Award. He also directed Píton (2011), winner of several international awards, and did the image and editing for Gonçalo Tocha’s The Mother and the Sea (2013) winner of the national DocLisboa award in 2014 and winner of best editing at Cineport.