Cairo Smith is a Los Angeles feature screenwriter, director, playwright, and author. He is the author of several novels, novellas, and short story collections available in digital and paperback.

His first feature film, Screwdriver, premiered at Dances With Films in Los Angeles in 2022. Its New York premiere was at the SoHo International Film Festival in 2023. His tech thriller short film “Red Team” premiered at SoHo in 2025 and is available free online.

You can rent Screwdriver on Amazon Prime Video or stream it free with ads on Vudu.

Cairo is the founder and head of Askari Productions, which co-produced Screwdriver along with No Sudden Movies. Askari is currently producing new novels, films, and narrative fiction podcasts with various partners.

You can play his game Claudia Braun and the Disappearing Sable, an illustrated text adventure, free online (roughly one hour to complete).

Cairo is also the founder of Futurist Letters, a web publication of essays and short fiction. You can subscribe free on the Futurist Letters site. You can also submit to the publication with both essays and fiction.

He is the creator of Anachrona, a free anachronism detector tool for historical writing.

In screenwriting, Cairo is a winner of the PAGE Award, one of the most prestigious prizes in Hollywood for unproduced scripts.

As an adaptation writer, he has written the English adaptation script of several Netflix, Amazon, Disney, and Paramount shows and features including Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha, Forecasting Love and Weather, Katla, and Generation 56k.

He has contributed essays and fiction to VICE, Motherboard, Omni, default.blog, and UnHerd.

He is currently represented by entertainment law firm Fox Rothschild.

Driven by a love for experimental media technology and ARGs, Cairo spent years building story and marketing content for Niantic Labs and Cowri Labs.

You can find him on IMDb, Twitter, and Goodreads. You can email him at: cairo@askariproductions.com