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Dito was born in Queens and spent his youth playing in hardcore bands and did a brief stint as a Versace model. After adapting his best-selling book (the first of three) into a screenplay, Montiel made his directorial debut with the film version of "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints" starring Robert Downey Jr., Channing Tatum and Rosario Dawson.
In 2003, Montiel published A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, a memoir detailing his life growing up in Astoria, Queens in the early 1980s during the rise of the hardcore punk scene. The book describes his time spent touring with his band Gutterboy and his brief modeling career with Versace along with other personal anecdotes.
- Filmmaker, author, musician
- Orlandito Montiel, New York City, U.S. Queens
- 1989–present
Feb 17, 2007 · The author was Dito (short for Orlandito) Montiel, a half-Nicaraguan, half-Irish punk-turned-respectable-citizen, whose rock band, Gutterboy, had enjoyed approximately five minutes of fame - and a ...
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May 8, 2003 · Montiel's saints run the gamut from omniscient priests to wacky con artists. In his rambling memoir of growing up in the 1970s and '80s in a tough Queens neighborhood, he escapes to the East Village to emerge as a Calvin Klein underwear model and lead singer of the punk band Gutterboy. Montiel's childhood was rough but thrilling.
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Jul 11, 2006 · Dito Montiel, a guy from Astoria, Queens, pulled off the trifecta, with a bit of help from Robert Downey Jr. “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints,” a movie based on a memoir of the same name ...
Jan 22, 2006 · Dito Montiel writes what he knows in his autobiographical and unkempt debut feature, "A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints." Homing in on the sections in his 2003 memoir about his experiences ...
Sep 27, 2006 · Too often, director Dito Montiel takes the same dreamy, impressionistic approach he used in writing the book itself. And for a film that’s intended as a pure, unflinching snapshot, he needlessly ...
