Nicolás Amelio-Ortiz
April 19, 1991 — Buenos Aires, Argentina
Screenwriter and director born in Buenos Aires in 1991, Nicolás Amelio Ortiz premiered his debut film, El bosque de los submitidos, in 2012. He is also the author of the short films El Suplicio (2013), Música para Elegidos (2014), La Hoguera (2016), and Virgen (2017, screened at the 50th Sitges International Festival, shortly after its launch in Argentina). Nicolás is also the creator and director of ZEPfilms, a producer of digital content mainly dedicated to cinema. ZEPfilms has more than one million subscribers on YouTube, and its ZEPfilms DIRECTO podcast is currently one of the most followed in the Spanish language.
