Luis Ventura is an award winning filmmaker from Switzerland
currently working on his fourth feature film Paradise Lost.
Luis grew up in Europe and southeast Asia before moving to the UK where he studied Filmmaking.
After completing his BA in London in 2010 Luis returned to Switzerland for the chance to direct his debut feature film A Confident Man in 2011. The Film was released theatrically on October 18th, 2012 and followed up by the second feature Tetro Rouge in 2015 for which he also wrote the screenplay. His latest writer/director effort The Espadrillo Fortune found international distribution at the 2017 Marche du Film in Cannes, France and released on various streaming services around the globe.
Filmography
The Espadrillo Fortune (2017)
“Welcome to the treasure-hunting business.”
An outlaw with a mysterious past must race against a shady treasure hunter to unearth a long lost Spanish shipwreck rumoured to have sunk in one of the idyllic bays on the southern Sardinian coastline. Find out more >
Tetro Rouge (2015)
“The hunt is on…”
Set in a future without electricity, Skye, a young survivor, receives a mysterious map from her father and must embark on an adventure through a post-apocalyptic world to save human mankind. Find out more >
Midnight City (2012)
“Men don’t think straight with a head full of whiskey”
The only thing that stands between Maxine "Bunny" Vance and happiness is her mentally unstable pimp and his Winchester rifle. Find out more >
A Confident Man (2012)
“It takes one to make one…”
After Steve loses his job, his money, and his apartment, he drunkenly turns to a life of crime. Determined to rob a bank, Steve discovers he's not the only bank robber in town and certainly not the most dangerous. But when they mistake him for one of their own, Steve might just pull off the robbery of the century; unless corrupt cops, a dangerous lunatic, the mob, and a renegade bank robber with a dark secret catch him first. Find out more >