Washington Novaes was born on June 3, 1934 in Vargem Grande, São Paulo, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for Joana Angélica (1979), Pantanal (1987) and Xingu, A Terra Ameaçada (2007). He died on August 24, 2020 in Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.