Nicolás Saad is a screenwriter and script analyst originally from Buenos Aires. He studied film directing at the Universidad del Cine, where he later taught screenwriting. In 1995, he wrote and directed the short film La piel de la gallina, which was screened at the Clermont-Ferrand and Berlin film festivals and was a participant at the Student Academy Awards—Oscars®. In 1998, he wrote and directed the first episode of the collective feature film Mala época, winner of the FIPRESCI award for best Latin American film at the Mar del Plata Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Toulouse Latin American Film Festival.

He has lived in Madrid since 1999. In his early years, he collaborated with Casa de América, the Huesca Film Festival, and other institutions in organizing forums and publishing books on film, and he wrote articles for the Argentine art and thought magazine La Otra. Between 2000 and 2002, he also worked on the production and post-production of television shows and series for the production companies Globomedia and Boca Boca. Nicolás has been a member of the reading committee for the Ibero-American Audiovisual Project Development Course since its foundation in 2003. He has read and analyzed nearly three thousand scripts over the years. He teaches at the Madrid Film Institute and has taught courses at the TAI University School of Arts, The Core School of Audiovisual Arts, and the Cursiva screenwriting school.

In 2003, he began working professionally as a screenwriter. He wrote the screenplays for films such as Atlas of Human Geography (Atlas de geografía humana) (Azucena Rodríguez), El corredor nocturno, Silencio en la nieve, Lejos del mundo (Gerardo Herrero), The Ignorance of Blood (La ignorancia de la sangre) (Manuel Gómez Pereira), The Apostate (El apóstata) (Federico Veiroj), La tierra roja (Diego Martínez Vignatti), and Intercambiadas (Fernando Urdapilleta). In television, he has been part of the screenwriting teams for Centro Médico (Zebra/TVE), Derecho a soñar (Veralia/TVE), and El Cid (Zebra/Amazon Prime). He is currently working on the adaptation of Rodolfo Walsh’s ¿Quién mató a Rosendo? for Argentina and on two independent Spanish projects.