Luis Ortega

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.

Works

Macadam

Release Date:2022-04-19

Vote Count:1

Salomé

At night a traveling flash runs through the streets of Buenos Aires hell, illuminating even the most remote roads. It's easy to mistake it for an angel. Its light, volatile step numbs the city and condenses the glances. It takes refuge in subways and tunnels under the ground. It comes off time. It tempts the dead to come back. It is The Light. The comfort of the homeless.

Release Date:2020-10-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Atenas

Persephone is released from prison after three years. Returning to the neighborhood will present him with a new hell. Without a job, she gets the help of Juana who shelters her in her house and with whom she looks for some changa to survive.

Release Date:2019-02-07

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:3

Lulú

Two young urchins turn the streets of Buenos Aires into their own magical playground, in this vibrant portrait of young love.

Release Date:2016-06-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Ludmila en Cuba

Ludmila Vieytes is in a cockfight in Cuba. With her baby in her arms and in a wheelchair, she comes to a passive acceptance of the torture, of the human and divine violence that shapes her beliefs.

Release Date:2013-07-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Monobloc

The godmother and Perla are the world to "the little girl," a world defined by the four walls of a studio apartment with one window looking nowhere. Only space and alter the monotony, the blood transfusion sessions to which must be submitted Pearl and almost anonymous sexual encounters of the baby.

Release Date:2005-06-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

Luca Prodan

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Kill the Jockey

Remo's self-destructive behavior overshadows his talent. Abril, an upcoming jockey, is pregnant with Remo's baby and has to decide between the child or continuing to race. They both race for Sirena, a businessman who saved Remo's life in the past but now is determined to find him, dead or alive.

Release Date:2024-09-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:33

Lluvia de jaulas

Popular neighborhoods that are open-air prisons. Where beauty flirts with violence. The kingdom of the insubordinate children, veterans of the lead. A garden of amputated flowers, which with crutches on their backs, still grow and dance.

Release Date:2019-01-23

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:7

Narcos: Mexico

See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.

Release Date:2018-11-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1349

El Angel

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.

Release Date:2018-08-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:547

Historia de un clan

This drama based on a true story follows the Puccios, a criminal family who kidnaps wealthy people and holds them hostage in their home.

Release Date:2015-09-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:11

Vote Count:42

Dromómanos

Five wanderers roam around Buenos Aires and it’s wild outskirts. God, schizophrenia and alcoholism is what gathers them in the search for salvation. A love triangle and the obsession over a little pig in the religiosity of the ghetto; a mental institution patient who finds an unstable emotional partner desperate for love; and the doctor of this story, an alcoholic, dangerous for himself and others, who heads without hesitation toward self destruction.

Release Date:2013-10-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Damn Summer

Julieta and Federico are parents of three boys, it is a high class family. He is a successful architect. They receive the visit of Tito, uncle of Federico, a gray man who has just left the prison. Tito wants to go to the sea and Federico proposes to go to a house that he himself built for some friends, but Federico stays in the city, working.

Release Date:2011-11-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Nocturnos

Follows a man as he silently goes through the desperation of a break-up. He aimlessly wanders the streets, meeting the night people of Buenos Aires; loners, thieves, fugitives, homeless, suicides, lovers and the ghost of the lost lover.

Release Date:2011-04-01

The Dirty Saints

Luis Ortega's apocalyptic third feature follows a group of five survivors as they embark on a journey that will force them to face their fears, dreams and longings in their quest for salvation across the Fijman River.

Release Date:2011-01-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Cielo

Vote Count:5

Black Box

It tells the story of three characters: a young woman who works at a dry cleaner, a father who leaves prison and the Salvation Army, and an old woman.

Release Date:2002-08-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

Siempre es de noche

It is the story of a director who dreams of dying and one day has a tragic accident with his partner.

Department:Directing

Job:Director