Ricardo Silva Ortega began his career in film in 2010, performing in the short film "Homophobia" by director Al Zaher, with whom he created a great friendship and dumbbell that has lasted until now participating in the short films "The other cheek" as an actor and make-up artist, "The origin of all times", "Forgiveness" and "Moral lessons" as Producer. Although he started as an actor, he quickly found his passion in production.
He has participated as a producer or production assistant in 26 short films and as a producer on set in the video home "Hero or villain: The wave", he has also developed as Director of Photography in 3 projects that are in postproduction. As a writer he has two short films "El Coctel" and "Apología" which won a third place in the transparency contest of the Guanajuatense Youth Institute (INJUG). As Director he directed an experimental videodance "Insight". Now he has also dedicated to the distribution of several short films among them "Perdón" which has been selected at the Mixx Festival in Mexico City, being screened at the National Cineteca, and was part of the Guanajuato Selection at the Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF) ), and in the OUTFEST 2017 in Peru; and "Pequeño Lilith" of which he is also a Producer, winning the category "Best Mexican Short Film" at the CINETEKTON Film and Architecture Festival in Puebla.
Since 2013 he has been part of the Guanajuato Film Group, and member of the organizing committee of the LabKinoRoom "Cinematographic Production Laboratory", which this year will have two editions plus one in the city of Guanajuato with the UG and another one in Puerto Montt Chile in collaboration with Kinomada and Fesancort.
He has taken photography courses for cinema by CEARG and CNA, multimedia tools for audiovisual creation, and film script taught by the Cinematographic Training Center (CCC) and CEARG. He is currently in a diploma in documentary filmmaking from the Virtual Documentary University (UVD).