Beatriz Montañez (Almadén, 1977) is a journalist and screenwriter. She has a Communications degree from the University of California and master's degrees in Media Innovation from Stanford University and in Civil Law in Journalism from Harvard University. She also studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles with the goal of enhancing the art of communication in her job as a journalist. She studied plot and documentary directing at the RTVE Institute and expanded on this knowledge with multiple courses by the DAMA Screenwriters Guild and the General Society of Authors (SGAE).

She worked for Telemundo (NBC) as a writer and reporter for morning news, and later presented the show El Intermedio de La Sexta for five years, for which she won the Ondas Prize for Best Current Events Show, the Golden Micrófono de Oro Prize, the Persephone Prize for Best Presenter, and the LGBT Prize for her work on diversity and equality. She has collaborated on the program La Ventana de Verano on Cadena Ser and WIRED Magazine in Los Angeles. She has won several prizes as the screenwriter of Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo, including Best Documentary Film: Goya Prize in Spain, Premio Platino in Latin America, the Eye Honors Prize in the United States, and the highest recognition at the Karlovy Vary Festival in the Czech Republic. Niadela is her first book.

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Niadela
NON-FICTION, 2021