ABOUT
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MARCELLE ABELA is a Maltese-American documentary filmmaker, composer, writer. Founding director of Avinu Films and Sergius Records. Abela's documentaries have won many international festivals and her science shorts are in the official archives of the European Space Agency. Abela's feature directorial debut Mikha'El (2021) was awarded European Best Documentary Award at the Brittany International Film Festival. It also won Best Director and two Outstanding Achievement Awards for Best Documentary and Best Film Score respectively at L-Age D'Or International Arthouse Film Festival. Mikha'El also garnered Best Documentary Director Award at the Great Message International Film Festival in India. On the musical front, Mikha'El won Best Score at the Tracks Music Awards in Los Angeles and the Award of Recognition for Original Score at the Impact DOCS Awards. It was also given a Bronze Medal at the Global Music Awards in San Diego. An avid reader and movie lover since childhood, Abela considers her films to be influenced by the works of Werner Herzog, Ken Burns, and Andrei Tarkovsky.
As a composer, Abela's Deep Winter, an orchestral piece inspired by frozen tundras, won Best Music at the Tracks Music Awards in Los Angeles, while her first EP titled Explorations, inspired by the coronavirus lockdowns, was given an Honorable Mention at the 10th People's Film Festival (Music Edition) in Harlem. Abela is now in production on her second feature documentary America's Woman: The History Not Told, which is expected to be released in 2023. She is also in post-production on the short film Ukraine's Soul: A Tribute to Heroes coming soon. |
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