About
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
Always Night2025 · Director, Producer, Editor, Writer
Kill the Jockey2024 · Director, Producer, Writer
Salomé2020 · Director, Writer
Atenas2019 · Thanks
Lluvia de jaulas2019 · Thanks
El Angel2018 · Director, Screenplay
Lulú2016 · Director, Writer
Dromómanos2013 · Director of Photography, Screenplay, Camera Operator
Ludmila en Cuba2013 · Director, Writer
Damn Summer2011 · Writer, Director
The Dirty Saints2011 · Director, Writer
Monobloc2005 · Director, Writer, Post Producer
Black Box2002 · Director, Writer, Camera Operator, Director of Photography













