Person
Luis Ortega
Directing · Born 1980-07-12 · 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.
Known for
Narcos: Mexico
Director
Black Box
Director
Historia de un clan
Writer
El Angel
Director
Lluvia de jaulas
Thanks
Kill the Jockey
Director
Salomé
Director
Always Night
Director
Macadam
2022
Magnetized
Director
Filmography
- 2025Always NightDirector
- 2024Kill the JockeyDirector
- 2022Macadam
- 2020SaloméDirector
- 2019AtenasThanks
- 2019Lluvia de jaulasThanks
- 2018Narcos: MexicoDirector
- 2018El AngelDirector
- 2016LulúDirector
- 2015Historia de un clanWriter
- 2013DromómanosDirector
- 2013Ludmila en CubaWriter
- 2011Damn SummerDirector
- 2011Nocturnos
- 2011The Dirty SaintsCielo
- 2005MonoblocDirector
- 2002Black BoxDirector
- —Time Fate LoveProducer
- —MagnetizedDirector
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