Pablo Dávila Castañeda

Creative writer and art director specializing in storytelling for social organizations, cultural projects, and businesses.

He has had a long career as a graphic designer for films and TV series (nominated for the Feroz Award for Best Poster in 2021), working for filmmakers such as Félix Viscarret, Jorge Coira, Juan José Campanella, Gracia Querejeta, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonás Trueba, and many, many others. For years, he designed Spain’s presence at international film and television markets in collaboration with ICEX (Ministry of Industry).

He made his debut as a fiction writer with the novel Ellos encantados (Frida Ediciones, 2018), which has sold thousands of copies and been adapted into an audiobook by Audible (considered one of the top ten comedies in its catalog). He is also the author of the romantic thriller Verano perdido (Experimenta Alterego, 2026).

As a screenwriter, he has developed two feature-length screenplays for the animation studio Able&Baker; his project López y el factor marino —produced by Chelo Loureiro and Rubén Zarauza—was selected for the IsLABentura Canarias program; and his feature-length documentary Rojo sobre negro, produced by Miguel Alcantud, received development funding from the Xunta de Galicia.

He has been a guest lecturer at various universities (Complutense, Barcelona, Granada, A Coruña, Escuela Superior de Diseño, and the Madrid Film Institute) and a contributor to publications such as Gràffica, Experimenta, and Icon Design, the design blog of EL PAÍS.