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 looselyscripted 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 recreation world within the past two years Christian has also served alongside producer Ken Sanders as SecondUnit Director for three featurelength thrillers for Lifetime When he is not directing Christian works as a Director of Photography In the past three years he has shot nine featurelength 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 fourteencamera live style programming for GSN In addition to his behindthescenes experience Christian is an actor with more than 6000 hours of training in the Meisner technique under Master Acting Teacher Robert X Modica He has also studied the LeeStrasberg Method acting technique during his time in Los Angeles and has enjoyed performing onstage as an actor in NYC Most Recently Christian has partnered up with his producerwife Roberta Setzu to form Alenu Entertainment Together they have completed their first feature length film You Shouldnt Have Let Me In for Tubi and are currently in production on their second film