Joshua Joel Ortiz

Joshua Joel Ortiz is an award-winning Filipino-American Director, Writer & Editor born on January 24, 1989 in San Francisco. In 2014, he submitted his short film Listen to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's HBO TV Show Project Greenlight and was awarded Most Unique Short Film. In 2015, his film Wake Up won Best Film at the Orlando 48 Hour Film Project. Out of 4,500 entries, Wake Up was chosen as 1 of the 12 international short films to screen at the 2016 Festival De Cannes. Ortiz has been featured on NBC News, Yahoo, Orlando Weekly, The Daily Dot, Rappler and several other international news outlets. In 2016, Ortiz was a camera operator on a show for the History Channel. In 2017, he was chosen to direct the life documentary of Quinton Aaron from the Oscar-Nominated film The Blind Side.