CREATION wins Best Narrative |
 | The poetic experimental film CREATION has won Best Narrative Short at the 2nd Festival International de Courts-Metrage d'Auteurs 2019 that was held in Quebec, Canada in June. The film, which explores the inherently conflicting nature of creation, will be receiving its Canadian premiere at the festival awards night on November 9, 2019, which will be held at the Barberivain Cultural Center of Sainte-Barbe, Quebec. This is the second award for Creation, written by the Maltese-American director Marcelle Abela. Earlier this year, the film won Best Music in Tokyo, Japan, with the score of the Australian composer Peter Cavallo and violin solo performed by the British string instrumentalist Joni Fuller. The final sound mix of Creation was done by the Serbian sound engineer Mirko Sukovic, motion graphics were the work of the Maltese-American VFX artist Antonia Harris. The executive producer of the film was Mariella Delia. |
CREATION nominated for Best Documentary Short in Italy
 | Creation by Marcelle Abela has been nominated for Best Documentary Short at the 2019 Rome Prisma Independent Film Awards being held in Rome, Italy. With music by Peter Cavallo and violin solos by Joni Fuller, Creation is a poetic short documentary of beauty and ugliness, orderliness and chaos, light and darkness, joy and sadness, antiquity and postmodernity, primitivity and the advancement of technology, war and peace, destruction and creation/re-creation, birth/life and death. The film is about that parallel visibility and invisibility of the nature of creation itself in the things and events we take for granted, but which remain ever-present in daily life. |
RED GLORY nominated for Best Internet Video at University of Navarra, Spain
 | RED GLORY by Marcelle Abela has been nominated for Best Internet and Social Media Video at the 1st #LabMeCrazy! Science Film Festival 2019 of the Museo de Ciencias, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. The jury is led by National Geographic's executive producer Ivan Bouso and Discovery's programming director Bibiana Gonzalez. Red Glory is a short documentary about humankind's first walk on the moon with Apollo 11, NASA's first test mission of Orion for beyond low-space orbit, and Mars 1, the upcoming first manned mission to the red planet. |
RED GLORY wins Best Documentary in Russian Federation
 | RED GLORY by Marcelle Abela has won Best Documentary at the 2019 European International Film Festival in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. Earlier this year, the film won Best Documentary Short at the 2019 Rome Prisma Independent Film Awards in Rome, Italy. Last year it won two awards for Best Music in Los Angeles and one award for Best Editing. The music was written by the award-winning Serbian composer Mirko Sukovic. Red Glory is a short documentary about humankind's first walk on the moon with Apollo 11, NASA's first test mission of Orion for beyond low-space orbit, and Mars 1, the upcoming first manned mission to the red planet. |
CREATION wins Best Music in Japan
 | The poetic experimental short film CREATION by Marcelle Abela has won Best Music at the Spring Edition of the 2019 Top Indie Film Awards that were held in Tokyo, Japan. The music was written by the award-winning Australian composer Peter Cavallo. The film was also nominated for Best Original Idea and Best Editing. Creation is a short documentary of opposites: beauty and ugliness, orderliness and chaos, light and darkness, joy and sadness, antiquity and postmodernity, primitivity and the advancement of technology, war and peace, destruction and creation/re-creation, birth/life and death. The film is about that parallel visibility and invisibility of the nature of creation itself in the things and events we take for granted, but which remain ever-present in daily life. |
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