Luciano Podcaminsky was born in Buenos Aires on June 7th, 1970. He studied media at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and then moved on to study film at FUC. He also took courses on film direction with pino solanas and rodolfo hermida, and studied copywriting at the Argentine Advertising Association.

He started in advertising working as a copywriter for several advertising agencies, and moved to working in top production companies in Buenos Aires as an assistant director. In approximately 1995 he started directing. He has received awards from the best well known festivals in the world:cannes, El Sol de san sebastian, One Show, d&ad de londres, clio, fiap, martin fierro, ojo de Iberoamérica, diente.

In 2005 he was part of the saatchi & Saatchi New director’s showcase, in cannes.

In 2006, luciano was ranked by the gunn report as 4th in the list of most awardwinning directors of the world, and in 2009 appears number 15th at the gunn report ten years consolidated tables 1999-2008.

His experience as a jury includes the following festivals: clio 2008 and London Festival in 2009-2010 and ojo de iberoamérica 2009. In 2007, his film the third pint, is selected for the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (bafici) and also for the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival (eiff) as one of the best of the fest films.
In June 2012, at centro cultural recoleta buenos aires; argentina, he opened his first personal art exhibition, with the works: sundead, just married, room available, private dinner and daily pill.
In September 2016, luciano was selected for “ bury the lead”, a group art show at artshare, los angeles, california.
In 2018, his short film “ the back of my mind” is selected for the following festivals: interfilm berlin, guadalajara mexico, mostra cine latinoamericano catalunia, huesca in spain and the latino media fest in los angeles.

In March 2023, his feature film “ asfixiados” is released in cinemas and tv distrubted by starplus latin america and disneyplus. In 2023, asfixiados is selected for the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival and the International Film Festival of india.
In 2024 asfixiados is selected for the iaffm iberoamerican film festival in miami and the santander film festival in spain.