Emerging from Rio de Janeiro’s Pontifícia Universidade Católica, where he began legal studies in 1959 and engaged in left-leaning cultural activism, Carlos Diegues entered filmmaking through the Popular Cultural Centers, later joining the Cinema Novo movement. His early work included the 1962 episode “Escola de Samba: Alegría de vivir,” a critique of Carnival and labor conditions, and the 1975 fea…
