Martin Meader is a dad, writer, film maker, composer, musician, choral director, a great cook and a lover of fish and chips, mangoes and pineapples. In 1997, he Co-Executive Produced and Co-Wrote the story of Paradise Road, a Fox Searchlight feature, which starred Glenn Close, Cate Blanchett, Pauline Collins, Jennifer Ehle, Julianna Margulies and Francis McDormand. The film is based on the true story of an extraordinary group of women in a Japanese concentration camp who came together to form a vocal orchestra and created a life-affirming symphony of human voices. Martin has conducted choirs of varying sizes (including 1,000 voice choirs) in Australia, Indonesia, Canada and USA. He also runs singing workshops around the world, has invented a game called SPELL which helps people learn to read (see www.alphabeticus.com,) sings in a group called Good Company with his buddies at a Macadamia Nut farm and has just released his first album with his good friend, Rob Spence, entitled, "Inside the Heart . "The Adventures of Charlie & Moon" is the first book in a trilogy and will be produced as a feature film. For more information on Martin, go to: www.martinmeader.com.
