CLICK this Logo to navigate
to the other company divisions
Meadowlark Film Productions debut film:
LOVE IS...Two Worlds
A Division of Nightengale Entertainment
VALERIE MARTIN
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 personal 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.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
ANDY VAN ROON
SCRIPT ADVISOR, DEVELOPMENT & PACKAGING
Andy van Roon is the Chairman and General Manager at FILM-COM film/Television Financing & Distribution Market he founded in 2008. Andy has been a driving force behind the growth of film production in Nashville, Tennessee by Bringing motion picture industry executives from Los Angeles, NYC and other film/television/streaming centers to network with creators of over 700 projects.
He's Producer of Nashville Filmmakers Symposium, Nashville 48 Hour Film Project, Annual Film/Television Town Meetings, Nashy Awards, over 200 seminars, workshops and webinars on the motion picture industry, write/editor 800+ industry e-bullitins since 200e, Statewide coordinator working with TN Film Commission and city commission / office for 2006 TN Visual Content Act to launch State film incentives. He's the founder of FilmNashville, Film Nashville Foundation, Tennessee Entertainment Alliance, Nashville Film, Television Transmedia Council [with Mayor Karl Dean].
​
Andy is a specialist in development of scripts, business plans, pitch decks and project packaging. He has served on the boards many organizations, including the Nashville Film Festival, advisory board of Nashville Screen Writers Conference, and International Black Film Festival. Ongoing partnerships with Women in Film & Television Nashville, Nashville Composers Association, Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, CineTVLatino Conference, and Faith in Film Conference.
He taught film/television/ trans media courses or lectured at Lipscomb University, Watkins Film School, Vanderbilt U, Nashville Flm Institute, and Art Institute of TN - Nashville.
He earned his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California.
MICHAEL MURPHEY
BUDGET & FILMING SCHEDULE PRODUCER
Michael S. Murphey is a Cape Town-based American feature-film and television producer who began his career in Hollywood in the early 1980s. His credits include District 9, Dredd 3D, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, A Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddie's Revenge, From Dust Till Dawn II & III, and the TV series SAF3. The hugely successful District 9 was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar at the 2010 Academy Awards; Dredd was the first 3D feature film shot in Africa and the very first film shot at the Cape Town Film Studios.
Michael first came to South Africa in 1994, where over the next decade he produced several films including projects with Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino.
In 2004 Michael returned to South Africa and for two years served as the representative of the completion bond company, Film Finances, on numerous large-budget feature films shot in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Hotel Rwanda and Constant Gardener.
Now a permanent resident of South Africa, Michael is the owner of Kalahari Pictures, a Cape Town-based film company that has serviced and co-produced a number of film and TV projects in South Africa. Formed in 2002, Kalahari Pictures has grown into one of Africa's leading production companies, with a track record that includes global blockbusters, Oscar nominees, and Emmy winners. Michael is a founding director of the non-profit organization, The Young Filmmakers Programme, which works to support and promote South Africa's next generation of storytellers and filmmakers, as well as DOCi Emerging Filmmakers Programme, which runs an Introduction to Documentary Filmmaking course in conjunction with the US Consulate and its American Corner. He is also a founder and board member of the Documentary Institute of South Africa.
SIR ROYSTON FLUDE
FINANCE & INVESTMENT
Sir Royston Flude, who was recently knighted by the Dutch for his life-long contributions to humanity, is President of CSPOC, a company that builds self-sustained solutions through integrating Health, Education and Enterprise. It is about bridging gaps between the private and third sectors and about empowering beneficiaries to take ownership and be the architects of their own development.
​
In this interview link he explains his purpose with CSPOC:
Roystion is a frequent contributor to annual world conferences such as Davos, and just recently to the "Conference on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Education" in Dubai. He has been in the Rotary International family for fifty years, and is currently the President of the Rotary Club of Manchester, UK.
​
His vision for a video game called The Game of Life is based on the Sci-Fi Musical film, Love Is...Two Worlds and will coincide with its release. Players of The Game of Life will learn skills to tackle problems facing their communities and ultimately be able to work together to create positive, transformative change in their own communities and ultimately in the world.
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 COMPOSER
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.