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Meadowlark Film Productions debut film:
LOVE IS...Two Worlds
A Division of Nightengale Entertainment
VALERIE CONNELLY
CREATOR
Founder and CEO of Nightengale Entertainment LLC, Nightengale Press, Meadowlark Film Productions LLC and Song Sparrow Music, LLC. Valerie's entrepreneurial background includes her life as a book publisher of 200+ novels, non-fiction, and illustrated children’s books for authors all over the USA and abroad. She is also a composer, a singer/songwriter, a playwright, an actress, an author, a French teacher and a world traveller. For many years, Valerie also hosted a radio talk show and, became a patented inventor of the GlowBox. A member of ASCAP since 1987 her portfolio contains hundreds of songs and instrumentals, and she continues actively to write songs and compose serious music. She also created multiple websites for her six entrepreneurial businesses, designed and sold hundreds of custom BlockArt print images to American Express, Brookfield Zoo, Lincoln Park Zoo, the Peace Corps and small businesses in Illinois. Upon entering the film industry, she learned Final Cut Pro 10.4 to make a film of her 2016 musical stage play, FEARLESS! the forerunner and inspiration for LOVE IS...TWO WORLDS a world-class feature musical film. She composed the songs, wrote the screenplay and is attracting A-list experts in film and music to her creation.
ED KRAMER
VISUAL EFFECTS ADVISOR
As a Senior Technical Director and Sequence Supervisor for George Lucas’ company, Industrial Light + Magic, Ed’s CGI effects appeared in STAR WARS Episodes I, II and III, and OSCAR-winner Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead Man’s Chest, He led the teams creating the Scarab Beetle shots in The Mummy, the Rock Monster shots in Galaxy Quest, the jungle getting sucked into the pyramid for The Mummy Returns, and the Droid Factory and End Battle shots in Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones. ​He also contributed to such classics as Stargate, Jumanji, Twister, 101 Dalmatians, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, Deep Impact, The Perfect Storm, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Herbie Fully Loaded, Van Helsing and many other seminal visual effects blockbusters
ANDY HILL
MUSIC PRODUCTION ADVISOR
A legendary American music supervisor, record producer, and music educator, Andy supervised film music at Disney that earned 10 Academy Awards in the music categories of Best Original Score and Best Original Song for The Lion King, Beauty & the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Pocahontas. He worked closely with Alan Menken, Howard Ashman ​ and Hans Zimmer. He continues to teach film composing and to supervise film music in the USA and abroad. Under the name A.W. Hill, Hill has written three novels, Nowhere-Land, The Last Days of Madame Rey, and Enoch's Portal, and a screenplay based on the life of Nikola Tesla.
GEOFF KOCH
FILM SCORE
ADVISOR
Film Credits: Beautifully Broken, Star Wars: The Force and The Fury, Judy, Dark Awakening, Jeremiah Strong, Picking Up After You, and many more.
He won the Prestigious 2015 Curtain Call Award, among many others and is known for his revolutionary scoring for films created for planetariums around the world. ​​Geoff is President of the Nashville Composer's Association, and heads up Score-Com in conjunction with Film-Com in Nashville each year.
AUDRA KELLY
An independent producer with a background in film development and passionate about supporting filmmakers who create projects that have a positive effect on humanity. ​She assists with the creative overview and supports distribution relationships.