
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.
17 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first

Always Night
2025
Kill the Jockey
2024Macadam
2022
Salomé
2020
Atenas
2019
Lluvia de jaulas
2019
Narcos: Mexico
2018
El Angel
2018
Lulú
2016
Historia de un clan
2015
Dromómanos
2013
Ludmila en Cuba
2013
Damn Summer
2011
Nocturnos
2011
The Dirty Saints
2011
Monobloc
2005
Black Box
2002Time Fate Love
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