Ernesto Ardito (1972) is an Argentine filmmaker and one of the leading figures in the documentary filmmaking in his country, having won 65 international awards. Most of his films were co-directed with Virna Molina. Virna and Ernesto’s debut feature documentary was Raymundo (2003), about Raymundo Gleyzer, a filmmaker who disappeared during the military dictatorship. This film has been one of the most awarded documentaries in Argentina. Between 2008 and 2017, they directed the award-winning documentaries: Corazón de fábrica (2008), Nazión (2011), Moreno (2013), Alejandra (2013), El futuro es nuestro (2014), and Ataque de pánico (2017). In 2017, they directed their first fiction film, Symphony for Ana, which won the Russian Film Critics Award at the Moscow International Film Festival, as well as Best Film and Best Photography at the Gramado Film Festival. This film was continuously screened in cinemas in Argentina for six months. In 2021, they created the popular series Memoria Iluminada, about some of the main figures in contemporary Argentine literature, such as Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Maria Elena Walsh, and Alejandra Pizarnik. That same year, Ernesto directed the documentary film Sexo y Revolución. In 2023 they premiered La bruja Hitler, the second fiction film directed by Virna and Ernesto, which won the Golden Tiger Award for Best Direction at the Kolkata Film Festival