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Screenwriter — Sword and Sorcery

148L

"Trigger phrases: sword and sorcery, barbarian, dark magic, quest adventure, mythological, sword-swinging, ancient evil, dungeon. Example films: Conan the Barbarian, Excalibur, Clash of the Titans, Jason and the Argonauts, The Witcher (Netflix), Dragonslayer, The 13th Warrior, Beastmaster. Genre keywords: quest-based adventure, mythological, primal heroes, dark sorcery, ancient ruins, personal stakes, gritty and visceral, low magic vs. high magic, sword against spell."

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Techno-Thriller Screenwriter

145L

Write gripping, technically credible techno-thriller screenplays where technology is both the weapon and the arena.

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Screenwriter — Teen / YA Series

176L

Trigger: "teen drama," "YA series," "young adult," "high school series," "coming-of-age

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True Crime Narrative Screenwriter

162L

Write meticulously researched, procedurally authentic true crime screenplays that transform real investigations

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Screenwriter — Video Game Narrative

137L

Trigger: "video game narrative," "game writing," "game screenplay," "video game story,"

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War Film Screenwriter

222L

Write harrowing, morally complex war screenplays that put the audience inside the experience

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Wedding Ensemble Screenwriter

161L

Write emotionally layered, structurally ambitious wedding ensemble screenplays where the ceremony is

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Screenwriter — Western

109L

"Trigger phrases: western, frontier, cowboy, gunslinger, outlaw, lawman, frontier justice, revisionist western. Example films: Unforgiven, True Grit, No Country for Old Men, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Django Unchained, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Searchers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Genre keywords: frontier mythology, moral wilderness, civilization vs. savagery, codes of honor, landscape as character, the last gunfight."

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Screenwriter — Workplace Comedy

152L

Trigger: "workplace comedy," "office comedy," "corporate satire," "work humor,"

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Zombie / Post-Apocalyptic Horror Screenwriter

236L

Write screenplays in the zombie and post-apocalyptic horror traditions — societal collapse,

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Directing in the Style of Abbas Kiarostami

130L

Write and direct in the style of Abbas Kiarostami — the philosopher of cinema

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Directing in the Style of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

107L

Write and direct in the style of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu — interconnected

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Directing in the Style of Alfred Hitchcock

115L

Write and direct in the style of Alfred Hitchcock — master of suspense, precise visual

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Directing in the Style of Andrea Arnold

109L

Write and direct in the style of Andrea Arnold — working-class bodies in motion,

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Directing in the Style of Andrei Tarkovsky

129L

Write and direct in the style of Andrei Tarkovsky — time sculpted through the long take

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Directing in the Style of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

126L

Write and direct in the style of Apichatpong Weerasethakul — the architect

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Directing in the Style of Ari Aster

143L

Write and direct in the style of Ari Aster — grief weaponized as horror, the

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Directing in the Style of Asghar Farhadi

135L

Write and direct in the style of Asghar Farhadi — the moral dilemma with no clean

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Directing in the Style of Barry Jenkins

141L

Write and direct in the style of Barry Jenkins — intimate epic filmmaking that

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Directing in the Style of Billy Wilder

124L

Write and direct in the style of Billy Wilder — the cynical romantic, master of screenplay

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Directing in the Style of Bong Joon-ho

112L

Write and direct in the style of Bong Joon-ho — the genre-bending social

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Directing in the Style of Brian De Palma

134L

Write and direct in the style of Brian De Palma — Hitchcock's heir amplified to baroque

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Directing in the Style of Carl Theodor Dreyer

109L

Write and direct in the style of Carl Theodor Dreyer — spiritual intensity

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Directing in the Style of Celine Sciamma

109L

Write and direct in the style of Celine Sciamma — the female gaze as structural

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Directing in the Style of Charlie Kaufman

144L

Write and direct in the style of Charlie Kaufman — metafiction as autobiography,

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Directing in the Style of Chloe Zhao

143L

Write and direct in the style of Chloe Zhao — non-professional actors inhabiting

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Directing in the Style of Claire Denis

110L

Write and direct in the style of Claire Denis — the body as primary text, post-colonial

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Directing in the Style of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

135L

Write and direct in the style of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne — handheld moral cinema

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Directing in the Style of Darren Aronofsky

117L

Write and direct in the style of Darren Aronofsky — obsession as self-destruction, the body

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Directing in the Style of David Cronenberg

112L

Write and direct in the style of David Cronenberg — body horror as philosophical

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Directing in the Style of David Fincher

118L

Write and direct in the style of David Fincher — perfectionist control revealing the dark side

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Directing in the Style of Denis Villeneuve

122L

Write and direct in the style of Denis Villeneuve — silence as narrative force, philosophical

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Directing in the Style of Edward Yang

122L

Write and direct in the style of Edward Yang — the cinematic cartographer of

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Directing in the Style of Federico Fellini

95L

Write and direct in the style of Federico Fellini — dreams as reality, the circus

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Directing in the Style of Francis Ford Coppola

125L

Write and direct in the style of Francis Ford Coppola — opera at cinematic scale, the

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Directing in the Style of Fritz Lang

109L

Write and direct in the style of Fritz Lang — fate and paranoia, geometric

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Directing in the Style of George Miller

136L

Write and direct in the style of George Miller — kinetic cinema where the moving frame

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Directing in the Style of Greta Gerwig

130L

Write and direct in the style of Greta Gerwig — female coming-of-age rendered

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Directing in the Style of Guillermo del Toro

100L

Write and direct in the style of Guillermo del Toro — fairy tales for adults,

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Directing in the Style of Hirokazu Kore-eda

122L

Write and direct in the style of Hirokazu Kore-eda — the quiet humanist who

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Directing in the Style of Hou Hsiao-hsien

117L

Write and direct in the style of Hou Hsiao-hsien — the master of the long

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Directing in the Style of Howard Hawks

117L

Write and direct in the style of Howard Hawks — master of the professional group under

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Directing in the Style of Ingmar Bergman

109L

Write and direct in the style of Ingmar Bergman — the face as landscape,

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Directing in the Style of Jacques Tati

125L

Write and direct in the style of Jacques Tati — physical comedy in the modern

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Directing in the Style of James Cameron

104L

Write and direct in the style of James Cameron — technology in service of emotion, world-building

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Directing in the Style of Jane Campion

109L

Write and direct in the style of Jane Campion — female desire and constraint, colonial

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Directing in the Style of John Ford

118L

Write and direct in the style of John Ford — poet of the American landscape, mythmaker

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Directing in the Style of John Huston

126L

Write and direct in the style of John Huston — the failed quest as existential parable,

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Directing in the Style of Jordan Peele

121L

Write and direct in the style of Jordan Peele — social horror that uses genre

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Directing in the Style of Kathryn Bigelow

110L

Write and direct in the style of Kathryn Bigelow — adrenaline as cinema, the body

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Directing in the Style of Kelly Reichardt

112L

Write and direct in the style of Kelly Reichardt — radical minimalism, the American

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Directing in the Style of Ken Loach

139L

Write and direct in the style of Ken Loach — social realism as activism, non-professional

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Directing in the Style of Krzysztof Kieslowski

132L

Write and direct in the style of Krzysztof Kieslowski — moral philosophy as cinema,

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Directing in the Style of Lars von Trier

110L

Write and direct in the style of Lars von Trier — provocation as method,

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Directing in the Style of Luchino Visconti

99L

Write and direct in the style of Luchino Visconti — aristocratic decay, opera as

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Directing in the Style of Luis Bunuel

98L

Write and direct in the style of Luis Bunuel — surrealism as social critique, the

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Directing in the Style of Lynne Ramsay

105L

Write and direct in the style of Lynne Ramsay — sensory cinema where sound design

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Directing in the Style of Martin Scorsese

128L

Write and direct in the style of Martin Scorsese — Catholic guilt colliding with masculine

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Directing in the Style of Michael Haneke

109L

Write and direct in the style of Michael Haneke — the violence of the frame,

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Directing in the Style of Michael Mann

117L

Write and direct in the style of Michael Mann — the professional's code, LA as nocturnal

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