Director
Laura Mora
Born 1981 · Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Laura Mora Ortega (Medellín, 1981) is a Colombian film director and screenwriter, recognized for her 2017 feature film Matar a Jesús, and for winning the Golden Shell at the 70th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, with Los reyes del mundo. He was born in Medellín and studied high school at the German School in the same city. He studied film production and directing at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Matar a Jesús is Mora's debut feature film. It was released in 2017 in theaters in Colombia. The film won a large number of national and international awards, including the EGEDA Award at the Cartagena Film Festival, the Jury Prize for Best First Film and the Casa de las Américas Award at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, the Eroski Youth Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival and the Roger Ebert Award at the Chicago Film Festival.
Directed
Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord
Director · 2012
The Great Heist
Director · 2020
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Director · 2024
The Kings of the World
Director · 2022
Green Frontier
Director · 2019
Killing Jesus
Director · 2017
Los hombres también lloran
Director · 2015
Before the fire
Director · 2015
Brotherhood
Director · 2006
Salomé
Director · 2012
Entre Panas
Director · 2014