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Place of Birth: Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
About Carlos Diegues
- Carlos Diegues, also known as Cacá Diegues (born May 19, 1940), is a Brazilian film director.
- He was born in Maceió, Alagoas, and is best known as a member of the Cinema Novo movement.
- He is popularly known for his unconventional, yet intriguing film techniques among other film producers of the Cinema Novo movement.
- Diegues is also widely known for his dynamic use visuals, ideas, plots, themes, and other cinematic techniques.
- He incorporated many musical acts in his film as he favored musical pieces to be complementary of his ideas.
- Diegues remains very popular and is regarded one the most cinematic producers of his generation.
- Of the Cinema Novo directors, he would go on to produce films, plays, musicals and other forms of entertainment in Brazil. Diegues' contributions to Brazilian cinema developed the film industry.
- He would pioneer expensive film projects that domestic filmmakers had ever seen.
- Films such as Bye Bye Brazil were two million dollar projects and later on films such as God is Brazilian would be over 10 million dollars.
- This was a new era in Brazil as domestic directors had yet to produce any films with that kind of financial support.
- He admits to using Brazilians in his films as much as he can.
- Diegues would use extras, film technicians, painters, sculptors and other essential personnel of Brazilian backgrounds even if they were inexperienced.
- Diegues attempted to consistently represent the underrepresented people of Brazil in his films.
- He suggests that history is written by the winners and the afro-Brazilian communities were not among those who were given a chance to write their own history.
- He also proposed the idea that up until this movement, cinema in Brazil only provided the white Brazilian experience despite the growing masses of black Brazilians all over the country.
- He is known for distinguished publications that uplift the Afro-Brazilian spirit and bodies. In 2018, Diegues was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
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