Guilherme Somensato

I spent over 20 years as a creative director in advertising, building stories for brands across Europe and South America. Storytelling was always the job — but I kept hitting the edges of what a 30-second spot could hold. I completed Sundance Collab's 9-month Screenwriting Mentorship Program in 2020 and never looked back. My debut feature, The White Men, is a psychological sci-fi drama about astronauts returning from Mars who develop an unexplained depigmentation condition and face indefinite quarantine. It placed as a Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival 2025 and is now in active development with a Hungarian co-production partner. My goal is to keep writing films that take genre seriously as a vehicle for human stories.