Jairo Sanz

Jairo Sanz

Screenwriter. Feature films, horror and dark humour.

I have loved films for as long as I can remember. After college I trained in drama and performing arts and worked as an actor, which is where I learned how a scene breathes from the inside: what a line sounds like in a mouth, how long a silence can hold before it breaks. Writing followed naturally.

I write feature films, and I am drawn to horror and to dark humour, often in the same story. I write in Spanish and English, and I am currently developing work for the Norwegian market.

I have written four screenplays: two features and two shorts. Full scripts are available to producers and companies on request.

Ávido

2020

Feature film, horror. Written in Spanish.

A group of students arrives in a village in rural Spain to interview its elderly residents about a wave of disappearances fifty years earlier. The more the locals tell them, the more they want to know, and the further they go, the clearer it becomes that nobody should have asked.

Completed. Received several offers; rights still available.

Cada tres minutos

2021

Short film, thriller. Written in Spanish.

Friends come home from a night out and linger in the entrance hall of their building, where the light switches itself off every three minutes. Each time someone turns it back on, the conversation is a little less friendly, until it stops being a conversation at all.

Completed. Rights available.

Ama de casa

2021

Short film, crime. Written in Spanish.

An ordinary housewife, as far as anyone can tell, becomes one of the country's most powerful drug kingpins. How she gets there is the story.

Completed. Rights available.

En uheldig helg working title

2026

Feature film, anthology. Horror and dark humour.

Five stories, one unlucky weekend. An anthology rooted in Nordic and Scandinavian folklore, where the old tales turn out to be less quaint than the tourist board suggests.

In development. Written in English, to be translated into Norwegian for production in Norway.

For scripts, treatments or a conversation about a project:

Based in Tallinn, Estonia. Open to work in English, Spanish and Norwegian.