G.W. Machado, named Guilherme Wagner Machado, is a 1995 Brazilian born independent filmmaker based in Porto Alegre, in the south of Brazil. He went to college at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where he studied Social Communications, specialized in Publicity and Advertising. Apart from some unreleased college video exercises, G.W. Machado debuted as a director with short movie Vazio (Empty Spaces) in 2018. Further, in that same year he went on to direct another 3 independent film projects (2 of which are scheduled to release early in 2019, the other one being a short movie named Vestígios).