Director
Luis Ortega
46 years · Buenos Aires, Argentina · 13 films
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.
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Best known for
Filmography 12
Always Night
2025 · Director, Producer
Kill the Jockey
2024 · Director, Producer
On MUBI
Salomé
2020 · Director, Writer
El Angel
2018 · Director, Screenplay
On Plex
Lulú
2016 · Director, Writer
Dromómanos
2013 · Cinematography, Screenplay
Ludmila en Cuba
2013 · Director, Writer
Damn Summer
2011 · Writer, Director
Nocturnos
2011 · Actor
The Dirty Saints
2011 · Cielo, Director
Monobloc
2005 · Director, Writer
On OVID
Black Box
2002 · Director, Writer