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Diego San José

Diego San José


Film and television scriptwriter specialising in comedy. He began his career writing for comedy programmes such as “Vaya Semanita”, “El Intermedio”, “Qué vida más triste” and “La noche de José Mota”.

In 2009 he made his first foray into cinema with Borja Cobeaga, with whom he wrote “Pagafantas”, winner of the Malaga Festival Award for Best New Screenplay. With Cobeaga he also wrote “No Controles” (2011) and the highest grossing film in history, “8 apellidos vascos” (2014), for which they wrote a sequel the following year, “8 apellidos catalanes” (2015). He has also appeared in films such as “Tenemos que hablar” (2016) and “Fe de etarras” (2017).

His most recent releases include “Súperlopez” (2018), for which he was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the series “Vota Juan” (2019) and its sequels “Vamos Juan” (2020) and “Venga Juan” (2021). In 2024 he will premiere Celeste, a new original series for Movistar Plus+, created by Diego San José and co-produced with 100 Balas (The Mediapro Studio).

Fabián Barrera