Until 2018, he was the director of weekly dramas at Rede Globo, being mainly responsible for the series and miniseries made by the network.
In 1972, he matriculated at the University of Paris, majoring in anthropology and becoming a member of the Ethnographic Film Committee, led by Jean Rouch.
Arraes became part of Rede Globo in 1981 as co-director of the novela Jogo da Vida, created by Silvio de Abreu.
[2] In 1993, he and his wife, actress and film director Virginia Cavendish, had their child Luisa Arraes.
Despite separating, she invited him to direct in the film Lisbela e o Prisioneiro, where she would produce and also act in.