Luis Zanger
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Producer
- Director
Graduated from the Film Institute of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral. After working in the documentary field, with two short films, Anden 2 (1965) and... Hachero Nomás (1966), co-directed with H. Bonomo, P. Coll and J. Goldenberg, he began to work in feature and commercial productions in Argentina, Brazil, Spain and the United States. He was assistant director to Juan José Jusid in Tute Cabrero (1968).
In 1974 he moved to Brazil, where he lived for two decades in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, working with his production companies Nova Imagen and Claquette Films. He spent 1990 and 1991 in Madrid, returned to Brazil, and finally settled in 1994 in the United States, in Miami and Los Angeles, where he has his production company Viva Films. Between 2007 and 2011 he returned to the country to be Associate Producer of Historias Cinematográficas, Luis Puenzo's production company. It is at that time that he participates as executive producer in the North American production, associated with China and France, Blood: The Last Vampire / Blod: The Last vampire (2009), partly shot in Argentina, as well as in There be Dragon (2011), an American-Spanish production directed by Roland Joffé, and as associate producer of the Argentine film in Misael Bustos' El fin del Potenkin (2011), which tells the story of Víktor, a crew member of a fishing boat stranded in Mar del Plata in 1991, when the USSR collapses. He returned to the United States, where he joined 100 Bares, Juan José Campanella's production company, in 2013 as Associate Producer.