She holds a degree in Media Studies from Universidad de Lima (1998) and a Master’s degree in Film Production from The New School, New York (2005). She is currently studying for a master’s degree in Audiovisual Screenwriting at UNIR, Spain (2019).

Selected by Filmmaker Magazine as one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” Rosario García-Montero wrote and directed three short films: Locked (2002), Do You Feel Lonely? (2004), and Perfidia (2006). These films have earned wide recognition at prestigious film festivals, winning eight awards and screening at festivals around the world.

• Sundance Film Festival – OFFICIAL SELECTION, Park City, UT
• Asiana Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize, Seoul, South Korea
• New York Expo – Best Short Fiction, New York, NY
• Molodist Film Festival – King’s Award, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Arizona Film Festival – Jury Award, Tucson, AZ
• Kodak Award, Fort Lauderdale Film Festival, for Best Short Film, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• Westfest Horizon Award, Austin, TX

In the summer of 2006 she attended the screenwriting workshop at the International Film and Television School (EICTV) in Cuba, where she began the script for The Bad Intentions, a feature film project that premiered at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival and received more than 20 awards worldwide.