Luis Ortega (film director)

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

From 1998 to 2003, Luis Ortega was in a relationship with the actress Dolores Fonzi.

From 2006 to 2008, Luis Ortega was in a relationship with the actress Celeste Cid.

From 2011 to 2014, Luis Ortega was in a relationship with the actress Ailín Salas.

Since 2017, Luis Ortega is in a relationship with Mía Flores Pirán, the daughter of Ginette Reynal. On April 4, 2019, the couple's first child, a boy, was born whom they called Ramsés Ortega Flores.

He wrote the screenplay for his feature film Black Box when he was nineteen years old.[1] 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."[2]

In 2015, he directed the successful television series Historia de un clan related the history of Clan Puccio.

In 2016, he directed the successful television series El marginal, that was released in October 2016 by Netflix and in January 2018 by Universal Channel.

In 2018, he directed the movie El Angel.

Director and writer

• La caja negra (2002) aka Black Box
• Monobloc (2005)
• Lulu (2014)
• El ángel (2018)

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