Helena Guerra is a Brazilian screenwriter, director, and editor. She is the founder of Irmãos Guerra Filmes (2012) and co-founder of Projeto Marieta (2015), where she has led the Script Development Groups since 2019, supporting more than 2,000 participants and fostering diversity in the audiovisual field. She has directed eight short films and eight music videos recognized at national and international festivals. Her debut feature film, O_Monstro, is currently in post-production and has been showcased at the work-in-progress programs of the Havana Film Festival, the Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes, the Guadalajara International Film Festival, and the Santiago International Film Festival (SANFIC), earning multiple finishing prizes. In 2019, she was selected for the La Selva artistic residency in Barcelona under the mentorship of acclaimed filmmaker Lucrecia Martel. Helena is also a member of the Cabíria Talent Network and works as a curator and educator in various Brazilian audiovisual initiatives.

Helena was a participant in Cine Qua Non Lab’s 2025 Storylines Lab with So This Is Dying.

So This Is Dying (Então Morrer é Assim) [co-written with Giovanni Pirelli] — Faced with the terminal illness of her best friend —who is rallying their whole community to rehearse her own multicolored funeral!— quiet but resourceful 13-year-old Zoé must confront her innermost desire: to disappear in her dreams. Set in a utopic solar-punk village in rural Brazil, So This Is Dying is a haunting yet luminous coming-of-age story about loss, friendship, and the fragile beauty of being alive.