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After graduating he returned to Wales and was a founding member of the Chapter Film Workshop – a full production facility that allowed local talent to make films. In its first five years the workshop produced eight feature films and over fifty shorts.

In 2010 he wrote the script for the HBO biopic, Temple Grandin. Starring Claire Danes as Temple Grandin, with David Strathairn, Julia Ormond and Catherine O'Hara, it was directed by Mick Jackson. Monger was nominated for an Emmy for his screenplay.

His documentary, Special Thanks to Roy London, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and went on to win several awards. In 2007 he adapted Kaiulani Lee's stage play A Sense of Wonder, based on the life of Silent Spring author Rachel Carson, into a film. Shot by Haskell Wexler and produced by Karen Montgomery, the film has been screened throughout North America.

As a director, his credits include: The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain (1995) for Miramax Films, adapted from his novel of the same name. It stars Hugh Grant, Colm Meaney, Tara FitzGerald and Harry Kretchmer. The Englishman et cetera was entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival He directed Waiting for the Light, starring Shirley MacLaine and Teri Garr. Also Crime Pays for Film Four International, starring Ronnie Williams and Veronica Quilligan, and Voice Over starring Ian McNeice.

At the same time he was film and video producer for the avant-garde theatre company Moving Being, regularly touring throughout Western Europe with such acclaimed shows as Brecht in 1984 and The Influence of the Moon on the Tides.

Monger made his first no-budget features there including the controversial Voice Over (1981) which played festivals and was sold throughout the world.

His graduation short, a comic rendering of the life of 8th Chinese poet Han Shan, Cold Mountain, was the opening film of the first ever British Festival of Independent Film in 1974.

Christopher Monger (born 1950) in Taffs Well, Cardiff, Wales is a Welsh screenwriter, director and editor, best known for writing and directing The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain and writing the HBO biopic Temple Grandin. He has directed eight feature films and written over thirty screenplays.