Manolo Santar

Manolo Santar
Santar at the 38th International Emmy Awards ceremony, New York
Born	Manuel Santar González (1965-03-11)March 11, 1965 Madrid, Spain
Occupation	Screenwriter, Creative
Education	Bachelor Degree in Media & Communication Science
Alma mater	Complutense University of Madrid
Years active	1992 - Present
Website
www.manolosantar.com

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Manolo Santar (Madrid, Spain, March 11, 1965) is a screenwriter, international consultant, teacher, and advertising creative.

Career

Spain

Linked to the early years of private television in Spain, the career of Manolo Santar began writing comedies like Colegio Mayor [1] (with Jorge Sanz [2], Antonio Resines [3] and Enrique San Francisco [4]) and Los Ladrones van a La Oficina [5] [6] (with Fernando Fernán Gómez [7], José Luis López Vázquez [8], Agustín González [9] and Manuel Alexandre [10]), or giving small notes in the first steps of what would later become the great success of Médico de Familia [11]. At the beginning of the new century he wrote for Globomedia [12] [13] series like Compañeros [14] [15](produced by Manuel Ríos San Martín [16] [17]) which became a huge event with thousands of fans. or the big action series Policías en el corazón de la calle [18] (produced by Manuel Valdivia and Nacho Cabana [19]).

Mexico

The year 1995 was a change in his career, moving his residence to Mexico where he was Professor at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana [20] in Mexico City. There he designed several advertising campaigns (DHL, Arteli) and wrote late nights like La hora Lunática with Humberto Luna or Permítame tantito de Israel Jaitovich, soap operas like Sueños y caramelos [21] and comedies of success for Televisa, among which Los Perplejos [22] [23] stand out (last series created by the TV icon Mauricio Kleiff), La Jaula [24] [25](produced by Guillermo del Bosque, who surpassed all the audience records in Mexico and its broadcast by the United States Univision Network) , series for personalities such as María Elena Velasco (La India María) [26], Rafael Inclán [27], César Bono [28], Omar Chaparro [29], Carlos Eduardo Rico [30], Carlos Bonavides [31] or Carmen Salinas [32].

During his time at Televisión Azteca, he supervised the creation of several contests and late nights as well as being a translator / adapter of famous American series such as Who's the boss? (Called in Mexico Una familia con Ángel, considered the first sit-com in Mexico with American format ) , but his greatest success came with Juan Carlos Méndez and Amaranta Ruiz [33], being part during its twelve seasons of the creative team of the longest-lived comedy series on Latin American television: Puro Loco [34] (and its spin-offs, A la mexicana [35] and De todo un poco), with twelve years on TV networks and more than ten years of theatrical performances through the entire American continent.

USA

In 2006, Manolo Santar moved to Miami, Florida, where he was represented by the talent agency William Morris Endeavor (WME) and began working as an International Consultant / Creative Director for Sony Pictures Entertainment for six years. There he supervises and directs several creative teams in Mexico, Colombia and Argentina, who are in charge of adapting and developing for the Latin American market series and films as famous as Aquí no hay quien viva, El Mariachi or Los Simuladores, which was nominated as best series of 2010 at the International Emmy Awards in New York

In the United States he writes series for Telemundo, such as Historias de la Virgen Morena [36] , comedies like Seguro y Urgente [37] (with Miguel Varoni), late night shows like Más vale tarde [38] (the Spanish-language's first Late Night in USA) or the show hosted by the multifaceted Charytín, entertainment news programs like Suelta la Sopa [39] or reality shows for Univision as La Gran Sorpresa [40].

While traveling frequently to Miami and Mexico, he currently resides in the city of Los Angeles, California.

Awards

• Nomination as Best Comedy Series at the International Emmy Awards (Los Simuladores - Season 2) (2010) International Emmy Award for Best Comedy Series
• Thank you for making Mexico laugh Award (Puro Loco - Season 3) (1997)
• TP Gold Award for the best series of the year (Compañeros - Season 3) (2000) [41][42]

Partial Filmography

Television

2018	La Gran Sorpresa
2013	Suelta la Sopa
2012	Historias de la Virgen Morena
2008	Los Simuladores
2008	Aquí no hay quien viva (Colombia)
2008	Aquí no hay quien viva (Argentina)
2008	Aquí no hay quien viva (Chile)
2007	Más vale tarde
2007	Buena Fortuna
2006	Seguro y Urgente
2005	Sueños y Caramelos
2005	Los Perplejos
2004	Vida TV
2004	Especial La India María
2003	La Jaula
2003	Permítame Tantito
2003	El Baño
2003	Hoy te toca
2001	Policías, en el Corazón de la Calle
1999	Compañeros
1998	Una familia con Ángel
1998	Súper Súper
1997	La Hora Lunática
1997	A la Mexicana
1997	De Todo un Poco
1995	Puro Loco
1995	Los Ladrones van a La Oficina
1994	Colegio Mayor
1994	Ta Tocao

Stage

1995-2005

The Puro Loco Show - Ten years running in Mexico and Latin America stage theatres.

External Links

• Manolo Santar on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) [43]
• Manolo Santar on Linkedin [44]
• Manolo Santar Official Website [45]

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