Directing

Laura Mora

Born April 20, 1981 · Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia (age 45)

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. She was born in Medellín and studied high school at the German School in the same city. He studied film production and directing at RMIT…

Known For

The Bed

The Bed · 2020

Alan and Adriana are taking everything from their home, to let it empty. They try to take out a double bed from their room and it gets stuck between them, pull them apart and block the view. As they can´t see each other, they find the possibility to talk and give each other reasons why they are stopping living together.

Salomé

Salomé · 2012

It's the 16th of July Virgin del Carmen´s day, and Salomé, a beautiful 14-year-old girl, is celebrating the first anniversary of her beloved father’s death. While everybody is partying, her Grief contrasts with the festivity environment, forcing her to confront her pain, her own believes, her myths and even her most precious childhood memories and illusions to be able to understand imminent death and finally get some closure.

The Kings of the World

The Kings of the World · 2022

The Kings of the World

MovieDramaAdventure

Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano. Five boys who live on the streets of Medellín. Five kings with no kingdom, no law, no family, set out on a journey in search of the promised land. A subversive tale told through a wild and endearing clan, somewhere between reality and delirium. A journey to nowhere, where everything happens.

Brotherhood

Brotherhood · 2006

Brotherhood tells the story of two brothers of Middle Eastern descent, who live with their mother in a social housing complex, known as Housing States, in the city of Melbourne, Australia. While Ali, the older brother suffers from heroin dependence, Syed, the youngest, tries to make a different life from his brother and finds a means of escape in urban poetry.

Before the fire

Before the fire · 2015

Before the fire

The journalist Alvaro Mendoza investigates the murder of his best friend and colleague. With the help of a journalism student, they discover the plan of the guerilla, the mafia and the military to attack the Colombian justice palace.

Killing Jesus

Killing Jesus · 2017

MovieCrimeDrama

Paula, a young art student, witnesses the assassination of her father, a university professor. Frustrated by the local police she starts to investigate the murder herself. Driven by anger, frustration and sorrow, she commits fearless acts that put her and her family at risk.

Lo azul del cielo

Lo azul del cielo · 2013

Lo azul del cielo

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude · 2024

One Hundred Years of Solitude

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

In the mythical town Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past — and their fate.

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The Bed

The Bed · 2020

Alan and Adriana are taking everything from their home, to let it empty. They try to take out a double bed from their room and it gets stuck between them, pull them apart and block the view. As they can´t see each other, they find the possibility to talk and give each other reasons why they are stopping living together.

Production Executive

Salomé

Salomé · 2012

It's the 16th of July Virgin del Carmen´s day, and Salomé, a beautiful 14-year-old girl, is celebrating the first anniversary of her beloved father’s death. While everybody is partying, her Grief contrasts with the festivity environment, forcing her to confront her pain, her own believes, her myths and even her most precious childhood memories and illusions to be able to understand imminent death and finally get some closure.

Writer

The Kings of the World

The Kings of the World · 2022

The Kings of the World

MovieDramaAdventure

Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano. Five boys who live on the streets of Medellín. Five kings with no kingdom, no law, no family, set out on a journey in search of the promised land. A subversive tale told through a wild and endearing clan, somewhere between reality and delirium. A journey to nowhere, where everything happens.

Director

Brotherhood

Brotherhood · 2006

Brotherhood tells the story of two brothers of Middle Eastern descent, who live with their mother in a social housing complex, known as Housing States, in the city of Melbourne, Australia. While Ali, the older brother suffers from heroin dependence, Syed, the youngest, tries to make a different life from his brother and finds a means of escape in urban poetry.

Producer

Before the fire

Before the fire · 2015

Before the fire

The journalist Alvaro Mendoza investigates the murder of his best friend and colleague. With the help of a journalism student, they discover the plan of the guerilla, the mafia and the military to attack the Colombian justice palace.

Director

Killing Jesus

Killing Jesus · 2017

MovieCrimeDrama

Paula, a young art student, witnesses the assassination of her father, a university professor. Frustrated by the local police she starts to investigate the murder herself. Driven by anger, frustration and sorrow, she commits fearless acts that put her and her family at risk.

Director

Lo azul del cielo

Lo azul del cielo · 2013

Lo azul del cielo

Script

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude · 2024

One Hundred Years of Solitude

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

In the mythical town Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past — and their fate.

Director

Entre Panas

Entre Panas · 2014

Entre Panas is a series that tells the story of a group of close friends reuniting after 10 years, exploring the importance of true friendship and how shared moments are what truly matter.

Director

Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord

Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord · 2012

Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord

SeriesCrimeDrama

Pablo is a man with a natural ability for business. Early in his life, Pablo is introduced to the business of cocaine and the power it yields. A young life of crime lands Pablo in and out of jail as he builds his criminal empire. Pablo expands his power through politics but it is not long before his conflicts as a Congressman and a drug lord collide. Pablo has his enemies executed, but not before the United States activates its own war on the Medellin cartel.

Director

The Great Heist

The Great Heist · 2020

The Great Heist

SeriesCrimeDrama

Based on the 1994 robbery of US$33 million from Colombia's central bank, which turned the country upside down.

Director

Green Frontier

Green Frontier · 2019

SeriesCrimeMystery

When a young Bogotá-based detective gets drawn into the jungle to investigate four femicides, she uncovers magic, an evil plot and her own true origins.

Director

Los hombres también lloran

Los hombres también lloran · 2015

Los hombres también lloran

SeriesDramaComedy

Javier, a thirty-something doctor whose enthusiasm does not wane despite working in a chaotic emergency room, decides to move to the United States, because his beautiful, sophisticated and not so happy girlfriend Maria has convinced him to follow the American dream.

Director