Director
Luis Ortega
July 12, 1980 · Buenos Aires, Argentina
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Daniel Fanego
3 titles together
El Angel, Kill the Jockey, Always Night
Ailín Salas
3 titles together
Lulú, Dromómanos, Ludmila en Cuba
Chino Darín
2 titles together
El Angel, Historia de un clan
Cecilia Roth
2 titles together
El Angel, Historia de un clan
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
2 titles together
Kill the Jockey, Lulú
Rita Pauls
2 titles together
Historia de un clan, Nocturnos
Full filmography · 15
Always Night
Director and Writer
2025
Kill the Jockey
Director and Writer
20246.7Macadam
cast
2022
Salomé
Director and Writer
2020
El Angel
Director
20187.4
Lulú
Director and Writer
2016
Dromómanos
Director
2013
Ludmila en Cuba
Director and Writer
2013
Damn Summer
Writer and Director
2011
Nocturnos
cast
2011
The Dirty Saints
as Cielo and Director and Writer
2011
Monobloc
Director and Writer
2005