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Guillermo started his film career adapting video games to critically acclaimed fiction short films such as Max Payne: Valhalla (2012) and Red Dead Redemption: Seth's Gold (2015). His first feature film was Netflix documentary Sad Hill Unearthed, Best Picture Award New Visions at Sitges Film Festival and nominated to Spanish Academy Award for Best Documentary 2019. His latest western short film is called Sauerdogs (2022) starring August Diehl and Tegoyo (2022), filmed under the supervision of Werner Herzog.
Since 2021, he is also the director of the 'Almería Western Film Festival' in Tabernas, Spain. The festival was created in 2011, with the purpose of raising awareness of the 60-year-old film heritage of the Almería province, and to promote, popularize and influence the Western filmmaking genre at the international level. Tabernas has a cinematic history dating back to the 1960s, when hundreds of westerns were shot there. Alongside screenings of shorts and feature films from around the world, the town hosts a Western parade, stunt shows, musical performances, and a nightly open-air party in the main square. The 2024 celebration featured star visitors including Viggo Mortensen, promoting Lisandro Alonso's The Dead Don't Hurt, and Italian legend Fabio Testi. On Friday night, the Oasys Mini-Hollywood theme park, a film set originally constructed for For a Few Dollars More, hosted a memorial for director Sergio Leone. As the sun set, an orchestra played the music of Ennio Morricone, as visitors in Western dress lit candles at an empty grave to honor Leone. The next night, Alex Cox led a script reading of Dead Mexicans, kicking off four days of shooting on the set the following week.
