Screenwriter
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E-mail sspaas@stsenaristid.ee
Sven-Sander Paas is a screenwriter born and raised in Tallinn. Creatively, he has transitioned from poetry to prose and from prose to playwriting before finally landing on screenwriting in 2017. Studied playwriting at Drakadeemia and film arts with screenwriting at Tallinn University, Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (BFM). He was awarded the Püha Jüri prize in 2021 during his studies. Because of the curriculum at BFM and his own preferences, he has mainly written sketches and short films, though rumors suggest that as of 2025, he is working on his first featurelength screenplay. His student film „Eyes on You“ won the Best Short Film award at the 2022 Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival (HÕFF), and his first short film outside of school „Heiki on the Other Side“ received the Young Director Award in France the same year. On a daily basis, he works at BFM as a production assistant and film distribution coordinator while giving film history lectures at both Tallinn University and the Estonian Academy of Arts. He has been a member of the Estonian Screenwriters’ Guild since 2023 and has served on its board since the same year.