Carlos Diegues, known as Cacá Diegues, is a Brazilian director, screenwriter and producer as well as one of the key figures of Cinema Novo, a film movement that criticized the Brazilian social structure and injustice. As a student of law at the Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Diegues was already openly expressing his interest for social reforms. He was an active member of academia, writing film critiques and poems for the student magazine O Metropolitano. In 1960, he began directing short films and after three years he made his debut with the feature film Ganga Zumba (1963), which deals with the subject of slavery. The success of the film brought Diegues the title of the most important member of the new film movement in Brazil. His other films are A Grande Cidade (1966), Os Herdeiros (1970), Quando o Carnaval Chegar (1972), Joanna Francesa (1975), Xica da Silva (1976), Chuvas de Verăo (1978), Bye Bye Brasil (1979), Quilombo (1984) that is considered to be his best work, Dias Melhores Virăo (1989), Veja Esta Cançăo (1994), Tieta do Agreste (1996), Orfeu (1999), Deus é Brasileiro (2003) and the last one O Maior Amor do Mundo (2006).