CHRISTOPHER ORTEGA is a writer-director born in Queens, New York and raised in Ocala, Florida. He attributes his love for the arts to his father who exposed him to music and cinema classics as a child. He is an alumnus of Morehouse College where he studied business finance and minored in the newly founded film studies program funded by Spike Lee. In his senior year, he directed Sympathy, his first short film that won second place in the nationally held HerStoryFilm Competition. Ortega was the first student from Morehouse College film studies program to be accepted to a masters level film school. Graduating Cum Laude in 2013, Ortega began his matriculation at USC School of Cinematic Arts class of 2017. In his first year, he earned the Edward Troutner award for Cinematography. He also has had internship experiences at Disney ABC Television Group and Universal Pictures. In 2014 after losing his father to leukemia, Ortega wrote and directed Rico's Last Fight, in dedication to him, a film which was chosen as exemplary work to be used in advanced editing courses at USC. Ortega is currently in touring his thesis film Prototype, which explores the world of Afrofuturism and science fiction. Ortega attributes his largest artistic influences to Rod Serling, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder and Stanley Kubrick.