Packet 2: Tossup 22

A film by a director with this first name features a track written by Nina Simone’s brother Sam Waymon that inspired a 2019 album by clipping. A director with this first name ended a film with shots of a woman smiling at the camera, after a freeze frame on a nude zombie jumping in slow motion over a corpse. The title song of a film by a director with this first name was the first collaboration between Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. A director with this first (15[1])name (15[1])cast Night (-5[1])of the Living Dead star Duane Jones in a film in which an (15[1])ancient African dagger turns an anthropologist (15[1])into a vampire. A filmmaker (15[1])with this first name cast Lauryn (*) Hill in her breakthrough role as a gospel choir singer in Sister Act II and directed a (10[1])1992 film (10[1])starring Laurence Fishburne as an undercover cop. (-5[1])That director (10[1]-5[1])with (10[1])this first name played Mac in Predator. For 10 points, give this first name shared (10[1])by the directors of Ganja and Hess and Deep Cover, who had the surnames Gunn and Duke. (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[3])

ANSWER: Bill [or William; or Bill Gunn; or William Harrison Gunn; or Bill Duke; or William Henry Duke Jr.]
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2025 Spec Script - Canada2025-06-212100%0%0%159.50
2025 Spec Script - Online 12025-06-211080%30%30%136.63
2025 Spec Script - Online 22025-06-21367%67%0%105.00
2025 Spec Script - VCU2025-06-211100%0%0%148.00