Curriculum Vitae

Name: York Neudel

Work: photographer|producer|programer

Mail: yorkneudel[at]gmail.com

Social Media: LinkedIn

Biography

York was born in 1977 in Germany and is a programmer, filmmaker and lecturer. In 2002 he finished his law studies in Jena, Thuringia and worked afterwards during six years in different commercial-, television- and German cinema-projects in light-departments, as a director of photography and still photographer.
Between 2006 and 2010 he studied cinematography in Dortmund, Germany and at the International Film school in San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba and got his Master Degree in Visual Anthropology in 2014 in Ecuador.
Since 2012, he has taught cinematography at several Latin-American and Spanish universities, such as UNITA, UNIBE and UDLA in Ecuador, at Chavón in the Dominican Republic or OFF.ESCAC, Spain. He currently collaborates as a part of the programming team of the Documentary Film Festival EDOC in Ecuador and has worked for several other festivals, such as FICQ or Eurocine.
Between 2020 to 2024 he was the head of the cinematography department at the EICTV, Cuba, and is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate at the Fine Arts Department of the Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain and is part of the Research Group CINEA

Filmography

Overnight

Documentary Feature Film, in postproduction, Director: Orisel Castro
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

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

Decomposition

2025, Animation, 14min, Director: Jose Deux
Festivals:
2025 - Cinemateca Ecuador

This moment

2022, Experimental Film, 8min, Director: Orisel Castro
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

20222, Documentary Short, 27min, Director: Orisel Castro
With kind support of UNESCO
Festivals:
2024 - 3ra Muestra de Cine Caribeño, Santiago de Cuba

The man who always did his part

2017, Documentary Film, 94min, Co-Director: Orisel Castro
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, Director: Orisel Castro
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

2012, Documentary, 12min, color, Director: Orisel Castro
Screening at Alucine - Toronto, Canada 2010

The homework

2009, Documentary, 31min, color, Director: Milagro Farfán
Awards:
2011 - Women in Focus, International Film Festival for Gender Equality, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 - Best Short Film, LAKINO, Berlin, Germany
2010 - "El Almacén de la Imagen", Camagüey, Cuba
2010 - Festival de Cine Pobre Humberto Solás, Gibarra, Cuba
Festival:
2010 - Austin, Texas, USA; Festival de Cine de Huesca, Spain; Helsinki, Finland; Damaskus, Siria; Belize; Documenta Madrid, Spain; Cuartacinema Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Barcelona, Spain; La Paz, Bolivia; DocuMusac in Castilla and Leon, Spain; Buenos Aires, Argentinien.


La soledad del Hormiguero

2010, Short-Fiction, 10min, color, 35mm, Director: Talía Aach


Röcken

2008, Short-Documentary, 7min, b/w, 16mm