Curriculum Vitae

Name: Orisel Castro López

Activities: director, editor, programmer

Contact: ori.selcl [at] gmail.com

Social Media: Instagram

Biography

Orisel Castro is a documentary film maker, programmer and teacher. Director of “Music Box” (2010) and “The Man Who Always Did His Part” (2017). Professor at several Latin American Film Schools and director of the master’s degree in documentary film at EICTV, Cuba until 2024. She has been programming several festivals in Ecuador and curates film cycles in Spain. She is a PhD candidate in Fine Arts at UPV, Valencia. She is currently working on her second feature film “Overnight”.

Filmography

Overnight

Documentary Feature Film, in postproduction
Labs and Awards:
Funding by Development Fund, ICAIC, Cuba, 2022
Arché Porto/Post/Doc, Portugal, 2022
Input, S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico, Spain, 2025
Award ELEXIR, 2026

Look and Enjoy

Experimental Documentary Film, 15min, 2026
Festivals:
June 2026 - S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico, A Coruña, Spain

This moment

Experimental Film, 8min, 2022
Festivals:
Aug 2024 - Kunturñawi Ecuadorian Film Festival; Draga International Film Festival; Sept 2024 - Max Sir IFF; Oct 2022 - Balkan Can Festival; Black Cat Award IFF

Luz de la casa

Documentary Short, 27min, 2022
With kind support of UNESCO
Festivals:
2024 - 3ra Muestra de Cine Caribeño, Santiago de Cuba

The man who always did his part

Documentary Film, 94min, 2017
Winner of the Best Documentary Feature in:
Latino World Cinema at Xicanindie XXIII, USA, 2021
Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale (LIFFY), USA, 2020
Kunturñawi Festival Ecuador, 2018

Festivals:
Dec 2017 - Transcinema, Lima, Peru; Jan 2018 - MiradasDoc, Tenerife, Spain; Jan 2018 – FGCD, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Mar 2018 – FICCI, Cartagena, Colombia; Apr 2018 – Distrital, Monterrey, México; May 2018 – Derby Film Festival, Great Britain; May 2018 – EDOC, Ecuador; Jun 2018 – Best of EDOC, Ecuador; Aug 2018 – Cámara Lúcida, Cuenca, Ecuador; Sept 2018 – Festival de Cine Etnográfico, Ecuador; Sept 2018 - Festival Radical, Bolivia; Oct 2018 – MIDBO, Bogotá, Colombia; Oct 2018 – Festival Kunturñawi, Ecuador; Oct 2018 - Semaine du Cinéma Équatorien de Paris, France; Nov 2018 – Festival Frontera Sur, Concepción, Chile; Nov 2018 – Festival Corriente No Ficción, Arequipa, Peru; Oct 2019 - Festival Internacional do Filme Etnográfico do Recife, Brasil; May 2019 - Documenta Caracas, Venezuela; Jun 2020 - Disrupciones Sesiones Fronterizas, Concepción, Chile; Oct 2020 - Cine Joven Cubano en el Sur, Montevideo, Uruguay; Nov 2020 - Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale, USA; Apr 2021 - Xicanindie XXIII, USA; Nov 2022 - Festival de Cine de Maracaibo, Venezuela
Winner of Postproduction Funding by CNCINE-Ecuador, 2015


Ex-Plane

2013, Experimental, 3 Minutes, color
Screening at DANUBE - VideoArt Festival 2013 - Austria
Inside (Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador 2019


Musicbox

2010, Documentary, 22 Minutes, color
Special Mention of the Jury at the 8th Mostra Internacional de Filmes de Escolas de Cinema de Porto

Festivals:
International festivals in Cuba (Gibara, Santiago Ávarez, Muestra Joven), Brazil (Bahia, Sao Paulo), Guatemala (Ícaro), Bolivia (FENAVID), Peru (FENACO), Ecuador (EDOC), Columbia (13 Muestra Internacional), Argentina (Mar del Plata, DOC BsAs), Great Britain (London), Belgium (Brussels), Germany (Kassel), Italy (Ca’ Foscari Cinema), Spain (Documenta Madrid)

Belly of the whale

Documentary, 12 Minutes, color
Screening at Alucine - Toronto, Canada 2010

Further and further away

2008, Documentary, 13 Minutes, color


Beans

2008, Experimental, 4 Minutes, color
2nd price of the Videoart Festival of Barcelona (BANG)