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Luis Ortega

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Luis Ortega

Born July 12, 1980 in Buenos Aires, Argentina12 films

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.

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El Angel posterFirst watchEl Angel20187.4Buenos 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.View film

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12 films as director
  1. TBAMagnetizedDirector
  2. 2025Always NightDirector
  3. 2024Kill the JockeyDirector
  4. 2020SaloméDirector
  5. 2018El AngelDirector
  6. 2016LulúDirector
  7. 2013DromómanosDirector
  8. 2013Ludmila en CubaDirector
  9. 2011Damn SummerDirector
  10. 2011The Dirty SaintsDirector
  11. 2005MonoblocDirector
  12. 2002Black BoxDirector