Christian Ortega

In the past decade, Christian has had a broad career working as a Director, Director of Photography, Actor, and Producer. He has field directed numerous loosely-scripted reality documentary investigation series such as "Contact' for Discovery Plus, ‘Expedition Bigfoot Season 5 and 6’, 'Infamy' for VH1, 'Cry Wolf' for Discovery Investigations, 'Booze Traveler' for Travel, and more. In addition to field directing in the reality documentary re-creation world, within the past two years Christian has also served alongside producer Ken Sanders as Second-Unit Director for three feature-length thrillers for Lifetime. When he is not directing, Christian works as a Director of Photography. In the past three years, he has shot nine feature-length films for Lifetime, Tubi, and BET among other streaming services. He has had a lengthy, successful career as a Director of Photography on everything from run and gun documentaries for Nat Geo, History, and Discovery, to fourteen-camera live style programming for GSN. In addition to his behind-the-scenes experience, Christian is an actor with more than 6,000 hours of training in the Meisner technique under Master Acting Teacher Robert X. Modica. He…

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