Carlos Yuri Ceuninck was born in 1976 in Santo Antão, Cape Verde. Graduated in Cinema from EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television), Cuba.
He has directed several short films, 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 and the Norwegian Short Film Festival in Grimstad.
In 2020, his documentary short film “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-length documentary, “The Master’s Plan” was finalized in 2021 and selected in official competition at the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF 2021) in Nigeria and also at (STLOUIS’DOCS 2021) in Senegal. He’s currently in post-production stage of his second feature-length documentaryproject, “The New Man”.