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The basics
Quick facts
Intro
Argentine film director
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
12 July 1980(Buenos Aires)
Family:
Mother:
Evangelina Salazar
Father:
Palito Ortega
The details
Biography
Introduction
Luis Ortega (born July 12, 1980 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film director, and screenplay writer. He works in the cinema of Argentina.
Biography
Ortega attended film school at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires.
He wrote the screenplay for his feature film Black Box when he was nineteen years old.
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."
Filmography
Director and writer
- Caja negra (2002) aka Black Box
- Monobloc (2005)
- Lulu (2014)