Directing
Community Rating
5.9
TMDB estimate
Born
July 12, 1980 (age 45)
Born in
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.
Time Fate Love
as Producer
TBA
—Magnetized
as Director, Writer, Co-Producer
TBA
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Always Night
as Director, Producer, Editor, Writer
2025
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Kill the Jockey
as Director, Producer, Writer
2024
—Macadam
2022
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Salomé
as Director, Writer
2020
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Atenas
as Thanks
2019
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Lluvia de jaulas
as Thanks
2019
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Narcos: Mexico
as Director
2018
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El Angel
as Director, Screenplay
2018
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Lulú
as Director, Writer
2016
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Historia de un clan
as Director, Writer, Creator
2015
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Dromómanos
as Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Camera Operator
2013
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Ludmila en Cuba
as Writer, Director
2013
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Damn Summer
as Director, Writer
2011
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Nocturnos
2011
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The Dirty Saints
as Cielo, Director, Writer
2011
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Monobloc
as Director, Writer, Post Producer
2005
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Black Box
as Director, Writer, Camera Operator, Director of Photography
2002
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