María Luisa Ortega Gálvez

María Luisa Ortega is a Tenured Professor of Audiovisual Communication. She holds a PhD in Philosophy and is a professor of Audiovisual Communication at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research and publications have primarily focused on documentary cinema and audiovisual non-fiction, from perspectives that combine film and cultural studies with epistemology.

She is the author of Espejos Rotos. Aproximaciones al documental norteamericano contemporáneo (2007) and has an upcoming book currently in press, Culturas del cine documental: de la España republicana a los años sesenta (2024). She has edited several volumes, including Nada es lo que parece. Falsos documentales, hibridaciones y mestizajes del documental en España (2005), Mystère Marker. Pasajes en la obra de Chris Marker (2006), Cine directo. Reflexiones en torno a un concepto (2008), Guillermo Zúñiga. La pasión por el cine y la ciencia (2011), and Le Nouveau Du Cinéma Argentin (2015). She is also a co-author of collective works such as The Grierson Effect: Tracing Documentary’s International Movement (2014), Las rupturas del 68 en el cine de América Latina (2016), The Routledge Companion to Latin America Cinema (2018), Connaît-on la chanson? Usages de la chanson dans les cinémas d’Europe et d’Amérique Latine depuis 1960 (2019), Noticiero ICAIC. 30 ans d’actualités cinématographiques à Cuba (2022), and El documental en España. Historia, estética e identidad (2023).

She is the director of Secuencias. Revista de Historia del Cine, published by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid since 1994. She has also served as a programmer for Documenta Madrid (Madrid International Documentary Film Festival) and Cines del Sur (Granada International Film Festival).