Carlos Yuri Ceuninck, was born in 1976 in Santo Antão, Cabo Verde. He studied Cinema at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (EICTV), Cuba, specializing in Documentary Direction. Omi Nobu (2023) his second feature documentary had its world premiere at FESPACO and was awarded L’Étalon d’or for best feature documentary. The film has been selected at São Paulo International Film Festival in New Filmmakers competition section and at IDFA in the Luminous section. He’s an alumni of the Hot Docs Blue Ice Group, EFM DocSalon Toolbox program (Berlinale) and SDI (Scottish Documentary Institute) Connecting Stories program.
