The New Man

Carlos Yuri Ceuninck, was born in 1976 in Santo Antão, Cape Verde. Graduated in Cinema at EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television), Cuba. He has directed several short documentaries, such as “Listen and Sea, Without Taste, Touch or Smell” (2005) and “To Beef or Not to Beef, That’s the Question on the Isle of Mú” (2004). The latter was selected for several international film festivals, among which the Cinestud – International Student Film Festival in Amsterdam (2005) and the Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad (2006). In 2020, his short documentary “Dona Mónica” was selected in official competition and received a special mention from the jury at the Festival International du Film Documentaire de Saint-Louis (STLOUIS’DOCS 2020), in Senegal. His first feature documentary, “The Master’s Plan”, completed in 2021, was selected in official competition and had its international premiere at the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF 2021) in Nigeria. “Omi Nobu” aka The New Man, his second feature documentary was completed in February 2023, selected at Festival panafricain du cinema et de la television de Ouagadougou (FESPACO 2023) where it had its international premiere and was awarded “L’Étalon d’or” for best feature documentary. He’s an alumni of the Hot Docs Blue Ice Group, EFM DocSalon Toolbox program (Berlinale) and SDI (Scottish Documentary Institute) Connecting Stories program.