After moving to Los Angeles in the early 2000s, Sairrino joined the entertainment industry as an assistant to
Golden Globe-winning producer
Sandy Climan (
The Aviator); she later transitioned to Climan's director of development and vice president of creative affairs, and worked with his consultancy firm Entertainment Media Ventures and its associated companies, including
3ality Digital (
U2 3D). In 2012, Sairrino joined All Nippon Entertainment Works (ANEW), a firm which sought to develop Hollywood film projects based upon Japanese-originated properties. She as senior vice president of development and production, and during this time developed expertise in the clearance of intellectual property
chain of title, a complex but necessary aspect of rights clearance in the adaptation process. During her time at ANEW, Sairrino developed adaptation projects based on the anime series
Tiger & Bunny and
Gaiking, the novel and live-action film
Shield of Straw, the live-action films
Ghost Train (with a screenplay by
Sonic the Hedgehog writers
Patrick Casey and
Josh Miller) and
Birthright, and the manga series
SOUL ReVIVER and
6000. Partners for these projects included
Ron Howard and
Brian Grazer's
Imagine Entertainment,
Edward Zwick and
Marshall Herskovitz's
The Bedford Falls Company,
Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures,
Chris and
Paul Weitz's company Depth of Field, and
Gale Anne Hurd's
Valhalla Entertainment. Following a change of ownership, a corporate realignment of ANEW in 2017 led to many of these projects remaining unrealized. However, ANEW's effort marked the accomplishment of the largest slate of Japanese properties in development in Hollywood to that time. In 2017, Sairrino established a new film production company, Akatsuki Entertainment USA, as a division of leading Japanese mobile game developer Akatsuki. Sairrino was the CEO of Akatsuki Entertainment and served as a board member of the parent company. Akatsuki Entertainment's business model focused on the adaptation of Japanese-originated intellectual properties into live-action Hollywood films. Akatsuki Entertainment's film activities included project development, financing, and production. In 2018, the company announced their first film, an adaptation of the best-selling
Kadokawa Games visual novel Root Letter. which was selected for the 2022
Beverly Hills Film Festival. Also in 2020, Sairrino developed and produced Akatsuki Entertainment's second project, the supernatural horror film
Room 203. Adapted from the novel of the same name written by Nanami Kamon and published by
Kobunsha,
Room 203 was directed by Ben Jagger, written by
John Poliquin, Nick Richey, and Jagger, and starred
Francesca Xuereb, Viktoria Vinyarska, and Eric Wiegand. The film was fully-financed and produced by Akatsuki Entertainment and was filmed in
Shreveport, Louisiana in the fall of 2020, with post-production completed in 2021. and was released theatrically on April 15, 2022; Internationally, the film received theatrical and home-video releases in Europe, the Middle East, and select territories in Latin America and Asia, with several top 10 weekend openings. In September 2020, Sairrino established AMMO Entertainment, a new production company which assumed responsibility for completion of the distribution arrangements for
Root Letter and
Room 203, as well as the production of Akatsuki Entertainment's development slate. Sairrino's work on the film was subsequently profiled with featured articles in ''
Dan's Papers and OMTimes'', and the film was awarded the Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary at the 2025 New Hope Film Festival. ==Filmography==