Skills Marketplace
Browse 2,562 skills across 122 packs and 30 categories
Sports Drama Screenwriter
220LWrite visceral, emotionally charged sports drama screenplays where the game on the field
Spy/Espionage Screenwriter
132LWrite taut, intelligent spy and espionage screenplays built on tradecraft, deception, and geopolitical tension.
Screenwriter — Stage-to-Screen Adaptation
137LTrigger: "play adaptation," "stage to screen," "theater to film," "play to movie,"
Screenwriter — Stoner / Hangover Comedy
212LTrigger: "stoner comedy," "hangover comedy," "weed comedy," "impaired protagonist,"
Screenwriter — Superhero
129L"Trigger phrases: superhero, comic book, superpower, origin story, masked hero, cape, villain, hero journey, comic adaptation. Example films: The Dark Knight, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Logan, Black Panther, The Incredibles, Unbreakable, Wonder Woman, Iron Man. Genre keywords: power as metaphor, dual identity, origin story, the mask, responsibility, escalation, the villain as mirror, spectacle with meaning."
Supernatural Horror Screenwriter
245LWrite screenplays in the supernatural horror tradition — ghost stories, demonic possession,
Survival Drama Screenwriter
220LWrite gripping, primal survival drama screenplays that strip characters down to their most
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."
Techno-Thriller Screenwriter
145LWrite gripping, technically credible techno-thriller screenplays where technology is both the weapon and the arena.
Screenwriter — Teen / YA Series
176LTrigger: "teen drama," "YA series," "young adult," "high school series," "coming-of-age
True Crime Narrative Screenwriter
162LWrite meticulously researched, procedurally authentic true crime screenplays that transform real investigations
Screenwriter — Video Game Narrative
137LTrigger: "video game narrative," "game writing," "game screenplay," "video game story,"
War Film Screenwriter
222LWrite harrowing, morally complex war screenplays that put the audience inside the experience
Wedding Ensemble Screenwriter
161LWrite emotionally layered, structurally ambitious wedding ensemble screenplays where the ceremony is
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."
Screenwriter — Workplace Comedy
152LTrigger: "workplace comedy," "office comedy," "corporate satire," "work humor,"
Zombie / Post-Apocalyptic Horror Screenwriter
236LWrite screenplays in the zombie and post-apocalyptic horror traditions — societal collapse,
Directing in the Style of Abbas Kiarostami
130LWrite and direct in the style of Abbas Kiarostami — the philosopher of cinema
Directing in the Style of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
107LWrite and direct in the style of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu — interconnected
Directing in the Style of Alfred Hitchcock
115LWrite and direct in the style of Alfred Hitchcock — master of suspense, precise visual
Directing in the Style of Andrea Arnold
109LWrite and direct in the style of Andrea Arnold — working-class bodies in motion,
Directing in the Style of Andrei Tarkovsky
129LWrite and direct in the style of Andrei Tarkovsky — time sculpted through the long take
Directing in the Style of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
126LWrite and direct in the style of Apichatpong Weerasethakul — the architect
Directing in the Style of Ari Aster
143LWrite and direct in the style of Ari Aster — grief weaponized as horror, the
Directing in the Style of Asghar Farhadi
135LWrite and direct in the style of Asghar Farhadi — the moral dilemma with no clean
Directing in the Style of Barry Jenkins
141LWrite and direct in the style of Barry Jenkins — intimate epic filmmaking that
Directing in the Style of Billy Wilder
124LWrite and direct in the style of Billy Wilder — the cynical romantic, master of screenplay
Directing in the Style of Bong Joon-ho
112LWrite and direct in the style of Bong Joon-ho — the genre-bending social
Directing in the Style of Brian De Palma
134LWrite and direct in the style of Brian De Palma — Hitchcock's heir amplified to baroque
Directing in the Style of Carl Theodor Dreyer
109LWrite and direct in the style of Carl Theodor Dreyer — spiritual intensity
Directing in the Style of Celine Sciamma
109LWrite and direct in the style of Celine Sciamma — the female gaze as structural
Directing in the Style of Charlie Kaufman
144LWrite and direct in the style of Charlie Kaufman — metafiction as autobiography,
Directing in the Style of Chloe Zhao
143LWrite and direct in the style of Chloe Zhao — non-professional actors inhabiting
Directing in the Style of Claire Denis
110LWrite and direct in the style of Claire Denis — the body as primary text, post-colonial
Directing in the Style of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
135LWrite and direct in the style of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne — handheld moral cinema
Directing in the Style of Darren Aronofsky
117LWrite and direct in the style of Darren Aronofsky — obsession as self-destruction, the body
Directing in the Style of David Cronenberg
112LWrite and direct in the style of David Cronenberg — body horror as philosophical
Directing in the Style of David Fincher
118LWrite and direct in the style of David Fincher — perfectionist control revealing the dark side
Directing in the Style of Denis Villeneuve
122LWrite and direct in the style of Denis Villeneuve — silence as narrative force, philosophical
Directing in the Style of Edward Yang
122LWrite and direct in the style of Edward Yang — the cinematic cartographer of
Directing in the Style of Federico Fellini
95LWrite and direct in the style of Federico Fellini — dreams as reality, the circus
Directing in the Style of Francis Ford Coppola
125LWrite and direct in the style of Francis Ford Coppola — opera at cinematic scale, the
Directing in the Style of Fritz Lang
109LWrite and direct in the style of Fritz Lang — fate and paranoia, geometric
Directing in the Style of George Miller
136LWrite and direct in the style of George Miller — kinetic cinema where the moving frame
Directing in the Style of Greta Gerwig
130LWrite and direct in the style of Greta Gerwig — female coming-of-age rendered
Directing in the Style of Guillermo del Toro
100LWrite and direct in the style of Guillermo del Toro — fairy tales for adults,
Directing in the Style of Hirokazu Kore-eda
122LWrite and direct in the style of Hirokazu Kore-eda — the quiet humanist who
Directing in the Style of Hou Hsiao-hsien
117LWrite and direct in the style of Hou Hsiao-hsien — the master of the long
Directing in the Style of Howard Hawks
117LWrite and direct in the style of Howard Hawks — master of the professional group under
Directing in the Style of Ingmar Bergman
109LWrite and direct in the style of Ingmar Bergman — the face as landscape,
Directing in the Style of Jacques Tati
125LWrite and direct in the style of Jacques Tati — physical comedy in the modern
Directing in the Style of James Cameron
104LWrite and direct in the style of James Cameron — technology in service of emotion, world-building
Directing in the Style of Jane Campion
109LWrite and direct in the style of Jane Campion — female desire and constraint, colonial
Directing in the Style of John Ford
118LWrite and direct in the style of John Ford — poet of the American landscape, mythmaker
Directing in the Style of John Huston
126LWrite and direct in the style of John Huston — the failed quest as existential parable,
Directing in the Style of Jordan Peele
121LWrite and direct in the style of Jordan Peele — social horror that uses genre
Directing in the Style of Kathryn Bigelow
110LWrite and direct in the style of Kathryn Bigelow — adrenaline as cinema, the body
Directing in the Style of Kelly Reichardt
112LWrite and direct in the style of Kelly Reichardt — radical minimalism, the American
Directing in the Style of Ken Loach
139LWrite and direct in the style of Ken Loach — social realism as activism, non-professional
Directing in the Style of Krzysztof Kieslowski
132LWrite and direct in the style of Krzysztof Kieslowski — moral philosophy as cinema,