Laura Mora

Laura Mora Ortega (Medellín, 1981) is a Colombian film director and screenwriter, recognized for her 2017 feature film Matar a Jesús, and for winning the Golden Shell at the 70th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, with Los reyes del mundo. He was born in Medellín and studied high school at the German School in the same city. He studied film production and directing at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Matar a Jesús is Mora's debut feature film. It was released in 2017 in theaters in Colombia. The film won a large number of national and international awards, including the EGEDA Award at the Cartagena Film Festival, the Jury Prize for Best First Film and the Casa de las Américas Award at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, the Eroski Youth Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival and the Roger Ebert Award at the Chicago Film Festival.

Works

One Hundred Years of Solitude

In the mythical town Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past — and their fate.

Release Date:2024-12-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:121

The Kings of the World

Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano. Five boys who live on the streets of Medellín. Five kings with no kingdom, no law, no family, set out on a journey in search of the promised land. A subversive tale told through a wild and endearing clan, somewhere between reality and delirium. A journey to nowhere, where everything happens.

Release Date:2022-10-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:75

The Bed

Alan and Adriana are taking everything from their home, to let it empty. They try to take out a double bed from their room and it gets stuck between them, pull them apart and block the view. As they can´t see each other, they find the possibility to talk and give each other reasons why they are stopping living together.

Release Date:2020-12-08

Department:Production

Job:Production Executive

Vote Count:1

The Great Heist

Based on the 1994 robbery of US$33 million from Colombia's central bank, which turned the country upside down.

Release Date:2020-08-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:599

Green Frontier

When a young Bogotá-based detective gets drawn into the jungle to investigate four femicides, she uncovers magic, an evil plot and her own true origins.

Release Date:2019-08-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:119

Killing Jesus

Paula, a young art student, witnesses the assassination of her father, a university professor. Frustrated by the local police she starts to investigate the murder herself. Driven by anger, frustration and sorrow, she commits fearless acts that put her and her family at risk.

Release Date:2017-10-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:30

Before the fire

The journalist Alvaro Mendoza investigates the murder of his best friend and colleague. With the help of a journalism student, they discover the plan of the guerilla, the mafia and the military to attack the Colombian justice palace.

Release Date:2015-08-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Lo azul del cielo

Release Date:2013-01-18

Department:Crew

Job:Script

Salomé

It's the 16th of July Virgin del Carmen´s day, and Salomé, a beautiful 14-year-old girl, is celebrating the first anniversary of her beloved father’s death. While everybody is partying, her Grief contrasts with the festivity environment, forcing her to confront her pain, her own believes, her myths and even her most precious childhood memories and illusions to be able to understand imminent death and finally get some closure.

Release Date:2012-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Brotherhood

Brotherhood tells the story of two brothers of Middle Eastern descent, who live with their mother in a social housing complex, known as Housing States, in the city of Melbourne, Australia. While Ali, the older brother suffers from heroin dependence, Syed, the youngest, tries to make a different life from his brother and finds a means of escape in urban poetry.

Release Date:2006-11-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer