Cao Hamburger
Cao Hamburger (born 1962) is a Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who works between television and feature film. Born Carlos Império Hamburger in São Paulo to physicist parents who taught at the University of São Paulo, he co-created the landmark Brazilian children's series Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum in 1995, widely regarded as the best Brazilian children's television series, and won two International Emmy Awards (for Pedro e Bianca in 2014 and Young Hearts in 2019). His feature The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006), about a boy left with his grandfather during the 1970 World Cup amid the Brazilian military dictatorship, competed at the Berlin Film Festival, won more than fifteen international awards, and was Brazil's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, making the shortlist. He has also directed the Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum feature spin-off and the Indigenous-rights drama Xingu.