Genre films – Comedy, Horror, Action and Adventure – are the most commercially successful films in Hollywood. Writing team Michael Colleary & Mike Werb (Face/Off, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, TV show Extant) break down the structure, style, and techniques of writing great genre, and discuss specifically how to craft compelling villains, how to write action sequences, and much more. Mike Werb, writer of The Mask, is a nominating-committee member of the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. Michael Colleary has been a professional film & TV writer and film producer for more than 20 years and is a professor in UCLA’s MFA screenwriting program.