Director, screenwriter, and editor, Guto Parente graduated in cinema in the first class of the Audiovisual School of Fortaleza. He was a member of the collective of artists, Alumbramento (2008-16), and has been a partner of the production company Tardo Filmes since 2012. He made seven short films. including Flash Happy Society (2009) and Dogs Are Said to See Things (2012), shown at the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland), and nine feature films including Road to Ythaca (2010) and The Monsters (2011), both competing at BAFICI(Argentina), where The Monsters received a special mention from the jury; The Mysterious Death of Pérola (2014), The Cannibal Club (2018) and Inferninho (2018), were all released at the Rotterdam IFF (Netherlands) and exhibited at various festivals around the world. His tenth feature film, A Strange Path had its World Premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival (United States).