A Wicked Waltz

Guina Dutra (Guilherme Dutra Carvalho) was born in 20 million people Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Growing up playing every sport in the book, Guina excelled at basketball and at 17 years old received a full athletic scholarship to attend a small catholic University in New Hampshire, U.S.A.

In his 3rd year of studies Guina fractured an ankle and stayed on campus for extra courses; he decided to take History of Cinema as one of the electives and it was in the hot summer hours spent in the basement of his school's library that the filmmaker first got in touch with art films: silent cinema and the works from artists who would become his greatest influence: Fellini, Godard, Tarkovsky, Bunuel and Bergman.

He fell in love with filmmaking and upon graduating with a degree in Philosophy went on to move to Toronto, where his family had re-located from Brazil. That move was of great significance in his life as the city had one of the most vibrant cinematic communities in the world. Guina dabbled with film studies at Ryerson University but ended up focusing on carpentry as the craft proved to be the best way to pay his financial debts at the time.

After 5 years in Toronto, Guina decided to explore the Canadian West and moved to the interior of British Columbia with his partner. Living a very secluded, surrounded by nature lifestyle was exactly what the filmmaker needed for the next 5 years. He learned how to build log homes, he learned how to paraglide and he started drawing as a way to express his imagination. He was at peace learning those new skills..

.. life continued to change however, and in the winter of 2014 Guina made the decision to return to Toronto. He felt he had unfinished business with film-making and was determined to pursue what he now knew to be his work in this life. He met a great group of young Toronto artists and shot Goodbye Dear Madness a few months later. The film is an art-house, cult project and deeply personal statement based on the auteur's most private experiences. Being accepted at the 2016 Cannes Short Film Corner has inspired the filmmaker to keep making films of this kind: films that reflect his human experience, his deepest fears, highest pleasures and everything in between.