Carlos José Fontes Diegues OMC, known as Cacá Diegues (Maceió, May 19, 1940 – Rio de Janeiro, February 14, 2025), was a Brazilian filmmaker. He was one of the founders of Cinema Novo.

KNOWN FOR

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1980
Spécial cinéma
1980
O País do Cinema
2017
Bacurau
2019
O Canto Livre de Nara Leão
2022
Chico Anysio: Um Homem à Procura de Um Personagem
2025
O Juízo
2019
Elis
2016
Bufo & Spallanzani
2001
Turn It Up, It's Rock 'n' Roll
2024
Any Stray Cat 2
2015
Verlust
2020

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
54
Directing
25
Writing
24
Producing
59
Editing
1
2026
Fernando Coni Campos: Cada um Vive como Sonha
as Self
2025
1961
as Self
2025
Chico Anysio: Um Homem à Procura de Um Personagem
as Self
2024
Armando Costa: “Televisão pra Mim Não é Bico”
as Self
2024
Tributo: Zezé Motta
as Self
2023
Roberto Farias - Memórias de um Cineasta
as Self
2022
Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
as Self (archive footage)
2022
O Canto Livre de Nara Leão
as Self
2021
The Good Cinema
as Self
2020
Arroz, Feijão e Cinema
as Self
2020
Torquato, Imagem da Incompletude
as Self
2020
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
as Self
2019
Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
as Self
2019
Memórias do Grupo Opinião
as Self
2019
Ferreira Gullar: Arqueologia do Poeta
as Self
2017
Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone
2017
Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
as Self
2017
O País do Cinema
as Self
2016
Pitanga
as Self
2016
Cinema Novo
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2015
Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema
as Self
2015
Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro
as Self
2013
Dossiê Jango
as Self
2013
Giovanni Improtta
as Vizinho
2011
Consideração do Poema
2011
Glauber Rocha em Defesa do Cinema Brasileiro
as Self (archive footage)
2009
Em Quadro: A História de 4 Negros nas Telas
as Self
2006
Depois do Transe
as Self
2006
Referências
as Self
2005
Looking for Black Orpheus
as Self
2005
Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova
as Self
2003
Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
as Self / Interviewee
2002
At the Edge of the Earth
as Self
2001
1968 - Without Losing Tenderness
as Self
1998
For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
1997
Dib
as Self
1997
Nelson Sargento
as Self
1994
Rio's Love Song
1991
Que Viva Glauber!
as Self
1989
Alex Viany - Um Documentário em Vídeo
as Self
1986
Mais Luz
1984
Making of - Quilombo
as Self
1984
Claves, 1: How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
as himself
1984
Claves, 2: We will return younger
as himself
1984
Claves, 3: Small mother country, great mother country
as Self
1980
Fênix
as Self
1980
Cinématon IX
as N°83
1980
Filmando Bye Bye Brasil
as Self
1980
Spécial cinéma
as Self
1980
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1978
Summer Showers
as Homem lendo jornal
1972
The Suns of Easter Island
1967
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
as Self
Cadu Barcellos: Legends never die, they live forever