Luis Ortega

Directing·Jul 12, 1980·Buenos Aires, Argentina

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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.

Film	Credit
Always Night2025 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
Kill the Jockey2024 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
MMacadam2022 · Actor	Actor
Salomé2020 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
El Angel2018 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Lulú2016 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Dromómanos2013 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography	Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
Ludmila en Cuba2013 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Damn Summer2011 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Nocturnos2011 · Actor	Actor
The Dirty Saints2011 · Cielo, Director, Writer	Cielo, Director, Writer
Monobloc2005 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Black Box2002 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Director of Photography
TTime Fate LoveProducer	Producer
MMagnetizedDirector, Writer	Director, Writer