DRAMEDY · ANTHOLOGY
an enigmatic night cashier at an ordinary OXXO on the edge of the city turns every shift into an extraordinary life
Series · 38pp · 2021Read →
01 · The workOur line
Our line
of work
Every card carries its revision stock — the coloured paper a production draft is printed on — so you can see how many passes a script has had before you open it. Ask, and the PDF comes back the same day with a treatment.
Signature workThree to start with
DRAMA · LIMITED SERIES
to force a country to take mental health seriously, two lifelong friends stage the suicide of one of them
Limited · 264pp · 2023Read →
COMEDY · SURREAL
in Monterrey, a charming nobody defends his title as king of procrastination against family, fate and the occasional bird-man
Series · 34pp · 2024Read →
Format
Sort25 of 25 · newest
WHITE · PRODUCTION DRAFT1h 34m
Written 2026Drama · personal
WHITE · PRODUCTION DRAFT1h 28m
Written 2026Horror · maritime
WHITE · PRODUCTION DRAFT22m
Written 2026Drama · short
GOLDENROD · 5TH REVISION1 eps
Written 2021Dramedy · anthology
BLUE · 1ST REVISION1h 36m
Written 2024Horror · nature
PINK · 2ND REVISION1h 44m
Written 2024Drama · speculative
WHITE · PRODUCTION DRAFT1h 48m
Written 2025Drama · social
WHITE · PRODUCTION DRAFT1h 58m
Written 2025Musical · surreal
WHITE · PRODUCTION DRAFT1 eps
Written 2025Comedy · music
BLUE · 1ST REVISION1h 42m
Written 2025Comedy · satire
BLUE · 1ST REVISION7 eps
Written 2024Drama · procedural
PINK · 2ND REVISION1 eps
Written 2024Comedy · surreal
PINK · 2ND REVISION1h 52m
Written 2023Drama · road
BLUE · 1ST REVISION1h 38m
Written 2023Drama · comedy
WHITE · PRODUCTION DRAFT14m
Written 2023Drama · short
BLUE · 1ST REVISION1h 32m
Written 2023Intimate drama
YELLOW · 3RD REVISION1 eps
Written 2022Comedy · half-hour
PINK · 2ND REVISION14m
Written 2023Drama · short
PINK · 2ND REVISION1h 39m
Written 2021Drama · family
YELLOW · 3RD REVISION12m
Written 2022Drama · short
GOLDENROD · 5TH REVISION1h 44m
Written 2020Thriller · procedural
YELLOW · 3RD REVISION1h 36m
Written 2022Drama · music
GREEN · 4TH REVISION8 eps
Written 2019Near future · limited
GREEN · 4TH REVISION7 eps
Written 2023Drama · limited series
BLUE · 1ST REVISION1h 52m
Written 2018Drama · chamber
The indexRevision colour · title · strand · runtime · pages
011Le BeirutSignature workQuiet, personal, and the closest thing here to a self-portrait.1h 34m94pp
024SalvageGenreFinished this month. Nobody outside the room has read it.1h 28m88pp
025The tide tablesShortsNot a story yet. A man and a notebook, and I want to know if there is a film in it.22m22pp
001El Amor Pinta Color OXXOSignature workA convenience store at four in the morning, and the man behind the counter who has seen all of it.1 eps38pp
014CarrionGenreA creature feature where the creature is a work ethic.1h 36m96pp
005Charlie CaliforniaSignature workThe AI film that is actually about a man who has run out of things to say.1h 44m104pp
017Teach me to break itSocialA script that already knows what it thinks. Rare, and worth arguing with.1h 48m108pp
010MelodramasSignature workThe most ambitious thing on the slate and the hardest to budget. Read it anyway.1h 58m118pp
020Funk without cutsSocialWritten fast, on purpose. The energy is the point.1 eps41pp
009La Moquerie aux Beaux ArtsSignature workA satire that keeps its affection for the thing it is mocking.1h 42m102pp
023The ninth floorProceduralThe most patient script on the slate.7 eps284pp
003GonzalitosSignature workSurreal, warm, and very funny about a man doing absolutely nothing.1 eps34pp
013Salt FlatsDramaThree states of silence and one conversation that should never have started.1h 52m112pp
006El PolacoSignature workThe laugh and the breakdown are written on the same page. Deliberately.1h 38m98pp
022Grown at homeShortsFourteen pages. No dialogue after page six.14m14pp
012Mi Amigo EdgarSignature workGrief without a single speech about grief. The restraint is the achievement.1h 32m92pp
016The quiet partComedyFunny for thirty pages, then quietly devastating for four.1 eps34pp
008Cartas BlancasSignature workTwo men, one road, half a conversation. Nothing else happens and it does not need to.14m14pp
019Sisters of the yamFamilyThree generations argue in one kitchen for ninety minutes. It never sags.1h 39m99pp
007Ed’s ExSignature workTwelve pages, one stage, one confession. It lands.12m12pp
015Nine hours in LagosProceduralA bureaucratic thriller in which the weapon is a rubber stamp.1h 44m104pp
004SombrasSignature workBrutal rehearsals, a country’s honour, and a mentor who is never quite wrong.1h 36m96pp
018Dry seasonNear futureSix hours of infrastructure that plays like a heist.8 eps312pp
002OmniaSignature workA stunt that gets away from them, and a country that only listens once it is too late.7 eps264pp
021Breaking breadDramaTwo people, one room, and no way to make either of them wrong.1h 52m112pp
Why the colours
Production drafts are printed on coloured paper in a fixed order — white, blue, pink, yellow, green, goldenrod — so a crew can tell at a glance how many times a script has been rewritten. This portfolio keeps the sequence. A card on goldenrod has been through five revisions and is a different proposition from one still on white, and no portfolio site tells you that.
02 · About the writer
Cinema as cultural journalism
Statement
Compelling stories emerge not from extraordinary people, but from ordinary people placed under extraordinary emotional circumstances. I write at the intersection of identity, morality and memory — treating film less as entertainment than as cultural journalism, documenting the rituals and contradictions of contemporary Mexico in an international cinematic language.
Recurring obsessions
Human relationships under extraordinary emotional pressure.The tension between ambition and personal identity.The hidden poetry within ordinary urban life.Mexican culture through an international lens.Moral complexity over conventional heroes and villains.
In conversation with
Martin ScorseseMoral weight
The Coen BrothersDark comedy
Damien ChazelleObsession
Anthony BourdainThe written voice
Recognition
El Amor Pinta Color OXXO — recognised at the Monterrey Film Festival as a short, now written as a series.
Beyond the slate
Founding companies, directing national creative initiatives, publishing novels and leading multidisciplinary teams — including The Best Coffee Shops — Mexico, a nationwide benchmark for the country's specialty coffee industry.
How I work
One ask across the whole slate: production and collaboration. Scripts come back the same day, with a treatment and no exclusivity attached.
03 · Contact
Read something of mine
25 finished screenplays, all available. Tell me which one and it arrives the same day with a one-page treatment. No fee, no exclusivity, no waiting list.
Emailhello@compasscc.co
Linkslinktr.ee/compass_mx
WritingSubstack — Compass.cc
StudioMontes Rocallosos 600, int. 605
Ciudad de México
Ciudad de México
StatusUnrepresented · open to offers