Carlos Montero Castiñeira (born 9 October 1972) is a
Spanish screenwriter, film producer, film director and television producer. Featuring an extensive background as writer of teen drama television series,
he is the creator of ''
Física o Química'' and
''Elite''.
Biography
Carlos Montero was born on 9 October 1972 in
Celanova,
Province of Ourense
Ourense (in Spanish, ''Orense'') is a Spanish province, in the southeastern part of the autonomous community of Galicia. It is bordered by the provinces of Pontevedra to the west, Lugo to the north, León and Zamora, (which both belong to Cas ...
,
Montero earned a
licentiate degree in Information Sciences (Journalism) from the
Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
Career
Starting at 25 years old, he wrote the screenplay of hundreds of episodes of the teen drama series ''
Al salir de clase'' from 1997 to 1999.
He was the creator of another popular teen drama series, ''
Física o Química'' (2008–2011).
He co-wrote together with Jaime Vaca the screenplay of the
Daniel Calparsoro
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Biography
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's film ''
Combustión'', released in 2013.
He also worked in other television series such as
''El tiempo entre costuras'' (''The Time in Between''),
,
and ''
El comisario''.
Working for
Netflix, he created the teen drama series
''Élite'' together with Darío Madrona
and created the Netflix series ''
El desorden que dejas'' (''The Mess You Leave Behind''), an adaptation of his own novel, winner of the 2016 ''Premio Primavera de Novela''.
He partnered again with Madrona to write the screenplay of the 2019 film ''
Gente que viene y bah'' (''In Family I Trust''), adapting the novel by Laura Norton. He co-created together with Agustín Martínez the Netflix fantasy thriller series
''Feria'', which began filming in 2021.
Filmography
Movies
Television
Novels
* 2012: ''Los tatuajes no se borran con láser''
* 2016: ''
The Mess You Leave Behind'' ( 2016)
References
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1972 births
People from the Province of Ourense
Writers from Galicia (Spain)
Spanish male screenwriters
Spanish LGBT screenwriters
Living people
21st-century Spanish LGBT people