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Mexican Editor and Storyteller. Always looking to find the story within the puzzle and make it be what it was always meant to be. Member of BFE.
Born in Mexico City, Luisa is the daughter of film and TV director Gonzalo Martínez Ortega and film and TV producer and cultural promoter María Luisa Arcaraz. Her maternal grandfather is composer and big band leader Luis Arcaraz, and her godfather was cinematographer John A. Alonzo, who was the first Mexican-American to become a member of the ASC. Luisa graduated with honours from Mexico City’s top film school (Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica – CCC) with a Bachelor’s Degree in filmmaking, specialised in directing and editing. Since then she has developed a successful career in the film, TV and advertising industries, working for worldwide and renowned companies such as the Netflix, BBC, National Geographic and Fox International.
Luisa has worked in all facets of the production process. She has been in charge of location production in films, documentaries and programmes such as “Wonders of Life” and “Orbit: Earth’s Extraordinary Journey” for the BBC; the BAFTA-nominated feature film “Monsters” directed by Gareth Edwards; “Nick Baker’s Weird Creatures” for Animal Planet; “Roads Less Travelled” for Lonely Planet and National Geographic; “2012: Science or Superstition” for The Disinformation Company Ltd; the Wahaca ad campaign for Misión Products with MTP Production Co., Glasgow; “Apocalypse... When?” for Asterisk Productions; “Chuck’s Week Off” for The Cooking Channel; “Stephen Fry in Central America” for ITV; and “Joel & Nish vs The World” for Comedy Central UK.
She has specialised the last 15 years in editing and post-production for short films, feature films, TV series and advertising, such as the Netflix international original “Club of Crows”, and the long form documentary “Fandango At The Wall”, directed by Varda Bar-Kar and executive produced by Kabir Sehgal, Quincy Jones, Carlos Santana, and Andrew Young.
In 2014, she set up a production company in Mexico City with Carlos Estrada as business partner, called True Films.
From 2015, she has been a member of British Film Editors (BFE).
Luisa splits her time between Mexico City and London.