CREATIVE PRODUCER
& DIRECTOR

Mallorie Ortega is a writer, director, and producer working across film and television, live production, experiential, and community programming. Her career has moved through a lot of different corners of the entertainment industry, but the through-line has always been about diving into the unknown head first and figuring out how to make the impossible happen.

Her debut feature musical, The Girl Who Left Home, which she wrote, directed, and produced independently, won Best Picture, Best Director, and the Emerging Filmmaker Award during its festival run in 2020-2021. Mallorie participated in the Television Academy Foundation’s Directing Fellowship in 2016, Aaron Kaplan’s First Jobs Program in 2017, THEatre ACCELERATOR in 2020, and the Rideback Rise Writer’s Circle from 2022–2023.

Her work has since expanded into large-scale live and experiential production, including a simultaneous McDonald’s x Genshin Impact activation in Los Angeles and Houston, Soju Think You Can Dance, a live dance competition and community event, among other projects. She brings a background in technical theatre and production design into how she approaches creative execution.

Mallorie is the Co-Founder and Vice President of Cinema Sala, a nonprofit supporting Filipino filmmakers and artists through programming, education, industry partnerships, and community-building. She holds an MFA in Film & Television Production and an Executive MBA from USC, along with dual bachelor’s degrees in Visual & Cinematic Arts and Theatre Design & Production from UMBC.