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 elevenepisode series In 2016 he also directed the first two episodes of the successful series El Marginal