Hawk Ostby  hails from the dangerous, fish-infested harpoon-happy slums of Oslo, Norway.  Deprived of the most basic filmed entertainment, he fled to the United States by way of India, Malaysia and Singapore, in the late eighties. After ‘studying’ in Boston, Mr. Ostby was extradited to New York, where he met co-writer and fellow conspirateur, Mark Fergus.  They have since collaborated on numerous screenplays, including:  First Snow, Children of Men and Iron Man.
In 2008, Mr. Ostby did not win the Pulitzer Prize, and was not recognized by the Nobel Committee.   He currently ekes out a Kaczynski-like existence deep in the Green Mountains of Vermont, and only communicates with the outside world through a complex network of bull frogs.

Mark Fergus (producer) co-wrote the current blockbuster film “Iron Man” and was one of the Academy Award nominated screenwriters for the film “Children of Men”. He also directed Guy Pearce in the feature “First Snow”, which he co-wrote with his screenwriting partner Hawk Ostby.  

Diane Lake has been a working screenwriter since 1993 when she sold her first story idea. Since then she has been commissioned to write films for Columbia, Disney, Miramax and Paramount. In addition, she has written a mini-series for NBC and created a half-hour series for CBS. She has also written work for numerous independent producers as well as actors like Dustin Hoffman and directors like Harold Becker. Projects currently in active development include Distance, the story of Berthe Morisot, the French Impressionist painter, optioned by Blue Collar Films; Chandler, a film noir set in 1930s Los Angeles where the writer Raymond Chandler becomes involved in the kind of murder cases he only writes about, being packaged by Roth/Arnold Productions; A Thousand Cranes, an epic love story set against the backdrop of the bombing of Hiroshima in WWII, produced by Digital Domain Studios. Her newest script, Ada, has just gone out to producers/directors—it tells the story of Ada Byron, Lord Byron’s daughter. Diane's film, Frida, opened the Venice Film Festival in 2002, was named one of the 10 Best Films of 2002 by numerous top 10 lists, including the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. Frida was also nominated for 6 Academy Awards in 2003. Diane is also a screenwriting professor at Emerson College; her website is www.DianeLake.com.