Born 1980 (age 45) · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Appears in 19 titles

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.

Filmography

El Angel
7.4
El Angel
2018
Director
Kill the Jockey
6.7
Kill the Jockey
2024
Director
Monobloc
5.4
Monobloc
2005
Director
Black Box
5.6
Black Box
2002
Director
The Dirty Saints
5.2
The Dirty Saints
2011
Director
Damn Summer
4.8
Damn Summer
2011
Director
Dromómanos
7.5
Dromómanos
2013
Director
Lulú
7.0
Lulú
2016
Director
Ludmila en Cuba
Ludmila en Cuba
2013
Director
Salomé
Salomé
2020
Director
Always Night
Always Night
2025
Director
Magnetized
Director