- He went from being an Emmy award-winning TV journalist to becoming a "P.A." overnight, and worked full time as a production assistant for over 2 years to gain on set experience.
- While working as a P.A. on a Pizza Hut commercial Ortega was cast by director Warren Kushner, instantly making him SAG eligible.
- With a sci-fi tale he wrote while in high school, he won the Premi Cercamon, one of the top literature contests for young writers in Spain.
- In an interview about the withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman called Ortega a "bridge" between cultures.
- Matt Mulcahy (WSTM-TV/NBC) says: "Ortega has a unique character and shooting style that gives a sense of art and urgency to his stories".
- Filmmaker Devaughn Hughson gave Jordi his first chance to step on a set, after they were introduced by another filmmaker, Gavin Dougan.
- He won an Emmy in investigative journalism with a one-man-band story he shot with a $600 camera.
- The feature-length documentary American Politics All You Can Eat was shot with a $600 camera, edited on a laptop, and it garnered the Best Political Documentary award at the Action On Film festival in Pasadena, CA, which was handed to the filmmakers by VP of Paramount Pictures Alan Bailey. Not a bad ROI for a film shot with a po' boy sandwich budget.
- He has produced and directed voiceover projects in a dozen different languages, working with talent from all over the world.
- Jordi's first films were a series of shorts that he shot with his family's camcorder and edited with a home VCR. He wrote and directed them for his English class while in high school, with his classmates acting in them. He still remembers vividly the expectation that they created and the rush that he felt when they were about to be shown in the classroom.
- Jordi is a member of SAG and ASCAP.
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