Luis Ortega

45, from Buenos Aires, Argentina

Biography

Luis Ortega was born in Buenos Aires in 1980. In 1999, at the age of nineteen, he directed his first feature film, Caja Negra, which received multiple international awards and launched him as one of the most promising and innovative filmmakers in Argentina. Since then, he developed a filmography with a strong signature, becoming one of the most daring and attractive voices in the independent Latin American scene, including Monobloc, Dromómanos and Lulú. In 2015, he wrote and directed Historia De Un Clan, a widely popular and critically acclaimed eleven-episode series. In 2016, he also directed the first two episodes of the successful series El Marginal.

Timeline

2025Aged 45

  • Poster for Always Night

    Writer

2024Aged 44

  • Poster for Kill the Jockey

    Writer

2022Aged 42

2020Aged 40

  • Poster for Salomé

    Writer

2019Aged 39

  • Poster for Lluvia de jaulas

    Thanks

  • Poster for Atenas

    Thanks

2018Aged 38

  • Poster for El Angel

    Screenplay

2016Aged 36

  • Poster for Lulú

    Writer

2013Aged 33

  • Poster for Ludmila en Cuba

    Director

  • Poster for Dromómanos

    Camera Operator

2011Aged 31

  • Poster for The Dirty Saints

    Cielo

  • Poster for Nocturnos

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Damn Summer

    Writer

2005Aged 25

  • Poster for Monobloc

    Post Producer

2002Aged 22

  • Poster for Black Box

    Director of Photography

Year unknown

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