For more than fifteen years, Zak Penn has carved out a successful and eclectic career in the film industry. While Penn is best known for his work as a screenwriter on Hollywood blockbusters, he is equally devoted to his role as director of independent, experimental and improvisational films. Penn first directed and co–starred with Werner Herzog in Incident At Loch Ness, his award–winning “hoax” documentary about the legendary director’s attempts to make a film about the equally legendary monster.

Born and raised in New York City, Penn attended Wesleyan University and soon after began his career as a screenwriter when he sold his first script, Last Action Hero, at the age of twenty–three. Since then, Zak has been a credited writer on PCU, Inspector Gadget, Behind Enemy Lines, X–Men II, Suspect Zero, Elektra & X–Men: The Last Stand. He recently completed writing the script for Marvel’s The Incredible Hulk, and is currently working on a remake of Dirty Dozen for Warner Brothers.

In 2006, Bowler and business partner Bret Saxon acquired and merged a powerhouse talent management company into the Insomnia brand. Their producing credits include the upcoming Live 2 Tell, 20% Fiction , 4Chosen, Anyone’s Son, America’s Toughest Bars, as well as “Inked,” Blue Sombrero, Driven, Hollywood’s Hottest and A Date with Anna. Bowler now adds talent manager to his long list of talents, managing major stars like Luke Goss, Rachel Miner, Tarryn Manning and Tiny Lister amongst many more. Insomnia will focus growing the talent management company and team in 2008.

Today, Jeff Bowler and Bret Saxon sit atop one of the most versatile and active production/financing and talent management shingles in entertainment. In November 2007, Insomnia Media Group received a $550 Million cash investment from an Egyptian Holding company. This will allow Insomnia to have a major growth year in 2008, and step up on developing and funding films $15M to $100M. Insomnia will also look to acquire many talent management companies over the next 18 months along with film libraries.

With hit shows on TV and high profile films in production/Development, Insomnia Media Group is only going up.

Zak Penn’s producer credits include Incident at Loch Ness, Ozzy & Drix, and Osmosis Jones. Gary Marcus’ producing credits include Incident at Loch Ness, The Big Bounce, CQ, Timecode, The Virgin Suicides, The Rainmaker, Rhythm Thief, and End of the Night.

Ross M. Dinerstein and Bobby Schwartz are the managing partners of Eleven Eleven Films. Eleven Eleven Films is a leading film production and financing company based in Beverly Hills.

In addition to the The Grand, Ross and Bobby have produced the feature films Unknown starring Jim Caviziel and Greg Kinnear; Deceit starring Joe Pantoliano and Emmanuelle Chriqui; Powder Blue starring Jessica Biel, Forest Whitaker, and Ray Liotta; and The Killing Room starring Timothy Hutton, Chloe Sevigny, Nick Cannon, and Peter Stormare. Ross and Bobby have also served as Executive Producers on Who's Your Caddy? and Black Water Transit.

Eleven Eleven Films is currently in pre–production on The Public, Emilio Estevez’s follow up to his Golden Globe nominated film Bobby, as well as the film Kid Cannabis, written and directed by John Stockwell.

Ari Palitz’ producer credits include the upcoming 20% Fiction, 4Chosen, Anyone’s Son, as well as Cult, Unbeatable Harold, Pit Fighter, Chasing Ghosts, and Temple Street Blues.

Matt Bierman has been a studio executive and sometime writer for many years. He has worked at Disney, Village Roadshow, Phoenix Picutures, Paramount DVD Premieres, and Warner Premiere. The films he has developed and overseen include: My Favorite Martian, Saving Silverman, Holes, Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, Save The Last Dance II, Another Cinderella Story, and Lost Boys: The Tribe. He is an avid poker player and handsome man about town. The Grand is his first writing credit, and, depending on how it goes, his last.

The Grand is the second film Lance Stockton has developed and produced with Zak Penn, the first being Incident at Loch Ness. Currently Lance is developing a limited number of ideas that could in fact lead to stories that with any luck will turn into screenplays, which if done right might become films.