Hugo Guerra

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Hugo Guerra is an award-winning Director and VFX Supervisor. After finishing his Fine Arts degree, he worked in Portugal and Sweden before moving to the UK where he was a freelancer for several years. In 2010 he joined The Mill London as a VFX Supervisor and as Head of the Nuke Department where he worked with clients like Audi, Adidas, Nike, IKEA, Panasonic, Discovery Channel, Sony, Activision, Ubisoft, to name a few. In 2014 Hugo joined Fire Without Smoke as a Director and Visual Effects Supervisor, working on trailers for games studios like CCP, Ubisoft, Deep Silver, Square Enix, Sony, Warhammer, etc. Most recently Hugo worked as a VFX Supervisor for Sony Playstation and worked as a Film Director for Rebellion Studios directing the cinematic trailer for Sniper Elite 5. He is also very active as a teacher and lecturer of Visual Effects, making keynotes in festivals all over the world in partnership with BenQ, Foundry, ActionVFX and Ftrack. Hugo is also a content creator on YouTube and Twitch with his channel Hugo’s Desk and he is the co-host of the VFX Notes Podcast with Ian Failes from Befores & Afters
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Awards and nominations:

Sniper Elite 5 Cinematic | (Rebellion Studios, UK, 2021)

TELLY AWARDS:  Silver for Directing

TELLY AWARDS:  BRONZE for Art Direction
TELLY AWARDS:  Silver for VFX

Warhammer Vermintide 2 Anniversary trailer | (Fire Without Smoke, UK, 2018)

TELLY AWARDS:  BRONZE for Directing
TELLY AWARDS:  Gold for VFX

The Walking Dead | March to War – Launch Trailer (Fire Without Smoke, UK, 2017)

California Internacional Shorts Festival: Best Commercial
TELLY AWARDS:  BRONZE for Directing
TELLY AWARDS:  BRONZE for Art Direction

Homefront The Revolution  – Intro Cinematic (Fire Without Smoke, UK, 2016)

TELLY AWARDS:  Gold for Directing
TELLY AWARDS:  Bronze for VFX
California Internacional Shorts Festival: Best Commercial
Best Shorts Festival: Award of Excellence: Commercial / Infomercial
Oniros Film Awards: Best Trailer
Oniros Film Awards: Best VFX
NYC Indie Film Awards: Platinum Award Best Visual FX

BBC Music Moment – God Only Knows (The Mill, UK, 2014)

Promax UK 2015 Awards: Gold award for Best On-Air Media Planning

Just Cause 3 – Firestarter (Fire Without Smoke, UK, 2015)

Howww Awards: Honourable mention

“Leonard in Slow Motion’ (LA, 2013-14)

Best Editing at the One Show’s One Screen Awards
Juri Award at the Napa Valley Film Festival 2014
Official competition at the LA Short Fest 2014
Official competition at the Palms Springs International Short fest 2014
Official competition at the Florida Film Festival 2014

Audi A6 Avant ‘Hummingbird’ (The Mill, UK, 2012)

Visual Effect Society nominee for best Compositing and 3D.
APA Showcase awards: Diamond
British Arrows Craft Awards Silver Arrow – CGI

Beckman interactive Avalanche (Animech, Sweden 2009)

Finalist certificate at the Global Awards US (Healthcare communication)

ABB – Traction engine (Animech AB, Sweden 2009):

Video Silver Award at the Telly Awards US.
Intermedia-globe Silver award in the World Media Festival in Germany.

Bilvitrum – (Animech AB, Sweden 2009):

First Prize in the Global Awards US (Healthcare communication)
Intermedia-globe Gold award in the World Media Festival in Germany.

The Driving Force – Jämtkraft – (Animech AB, Sweden 2009):

Intermedia-globe Silver award in the World Media Festival in Germany.

House of Sweden (Animech AB, Sweden 2008):


Golden Camera Award in the US International Film and Vídeo Festival.

Novozymes – Rethink tomorrow (Animech AB, Sweden 2008):


Creative Excellence in the US International Film and Video Festival.
Gold in the World Media festival.

MSD- The HIV Code US Edit (Animech AB, Sweden 2007):


Best Computer Animation award in the US International Film
Vídeo Festival and the Special Award in the World Media Festival in Germany.

GE – Ready to Process (Animech AB, Sweden 2007):

Special award for “Openings Trailers” in the World Media Festival in Germany.

Personal work:

Smokestack (UK, 2014)

48 hours London Sci-Fi challenge.

Blister Music Promo (Portugal, 2006)

Selected to the competition at OvarVideo festival, Portugal

The 9th floor (Portugal, 2004):

Special Jury Award at the OvarVideo festival, Portugal.
Special Honourable Mention at the ColorVideo festival, Portugal.
Video Arts official selection at the Young Creators Festival, Portugal.
Selected to the competition at VideoFormes, France, Nemo festival, France, AnimaMundi, Brazil and Morbegno Film Festival, Italy.

Data Arquivo 1.1 (Portugal, 2003):

Video Arts official selection at the Young Creators Festival, Portugal.
Official competition of the Ovarvideo festival, Portugal and at the Numero festival, Portugal.

The Office (Portugal, 2003):

Public choice Award at the OvarVideo festival, Portugal.

Caldas Late Night (Portugal, 2002):

Video Arts official selection at the Young Creators Festival, Portugal.
Official competition of the Ovarvideo festival, Portugal and at the Numero festival, Portugal.

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