Iván Dariel Ortíz
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| Iván Dariel Ortíz | |
| Born |  Puerto Rico |
Iván Dariel Ortíz is a Puerto Rican film director. Ortíz began studies at the University of Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Afterwards, he traveled to Maine in the United States to train in the field of cinematography. He then became a camera assistant, an editor, and then a producer of publishing agencies.
After gaining experience in various fields of film production, he directed a short film titled Héroes de Otra Patria about two Puerto Ricans fighting at the Vietnam War. With this film he won the award of best short film at the San Juan Cinemafest. He then turned the short film into a complete feature film of the same title, even representing Puerto Rico for a nomination at the 1999 Academy Awards.
Despite not being nominated, the film was selected by the Lincoln Center Film Society in New York as one of the best Latin American films. It also received an honorary mention at the Viña del Mar festival in Chile.
Recently, Ortíz has been working on a new film titled El Cimarrón about an African slave during 19th Century Puerto Rico. The film is set to be released in March 2007.
