About Mallorie
Mallorie Ortega is a writer, director, and producer best known for musical feature film The Girl Who Left Home. The film won Best Picture, Best Director, Emerging Filmmaker Award among others during its festival circuit in 2020. The Girl Who Left Home is now available on AppleTV, Google Play, Vudu, dish, and more.
Mallorie completed the Television Academy Foundation Directing Program in 2016, shadowing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, NCIS, Grey’s Anatomy, and Hairspray Live. Mallorie completed Aaron Kaplan’s USC First Jobs Program in 2017, hired as the Assistant Line Producer on his TV Pilot titled Charlie Foxtrot. She was a finalist of the Disney | ABC Directing Fellowship of 2018, and was a Fellow in the Spring 2020 cohort of the THEatre ACCELERATOR. There she developed The Girl Who Left Home as a staged musical under the mentorship of the Tony Award winning Broadway Producers responsible for An American in Paris and Memphis.
Mallorie is a double Trojan USC alum, earning her MFA in Film and TV Production from the School of Cinematic Arts and earning her Executive MBA from the Marshall School of Business. She strives to create more opportunities for API filmmakers in the Executive Suite and throughout the film production process. She serves as a Board Member and Vice President for Filipinx filmmaker collective Cinema Sala. Currently, Mallorie is a Fellow in the Rideback Rise Writer’s Circle, and is repped by LBI Entertainment.
CURRENT Favorite CITY
Hoi An, Vietnam
DATE VISITED
October 17, 2023
HIGHLIGHTS
First time in Vietnam
Took an 18 hour train from Ho Chi Minh
Fell in love with every stray dog
Rode a scooter everywhere I went
