Luis Ortega (film director)

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Luis Ortega
Born	(1980-07-12) 12 July 1980 (age 43) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupations	Screenwriter Film and television director
Years active	2002–present
Children	1[1]
Parents	Palito Ortega (father) Evangelina Salazar (mother)
Relatives	Julieta Ortega (sister) Sebastián Ortega (brother) Emanuel Ortega (brother) Luciana Salazar (cousin)

Luis Ortega (born 12 July 1980) is an Argentine screenwriter, film director and television director.

Biography

Ortega attended film school at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires.

Career

He wrote the screenplay for his feature film Black Box when he was 19 years old.^[2] His cinema work has been well received by film critics. Diana Sanchez said, "With only two feature films ... Luis Ortega is already considered one of Argentina's more impressive and original directorial voices. His first feature, Black Box, stood apart from the social critiques that characterized the films of his Argentine contemporaries."^[3]

In 2015, he directed the successful television series

.

In 2016, he directed the successful television series

Universal Channel

.

In 2018, he directed the movie

El ángel

.

Filmography

Director and writer

• Black Box (2002)
• Monobloc (2005)
• Lulu (2014)
• El ángel (2018)

References

1. ^ "Luis Ortega fue papá y eligió el nombre de su hijo cuatro días después de haber nacido: ¿cómo se llama?" [Luis Ortega became a father and chose his son's name four days after he was born: what is his name?]. Infobae (in Spanish). 15 April 2019. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
2. ^ Sanchez, Diana Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine. Film review from the Toronto International Film Festival, September, 2005
3. ^ Sanchez, Diana. Ibid.

External links

• Luis Ortega at Cinenacional.com (in Spanish) (archive)
• Luis Ortega at
  IMDb 

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