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News 13

3/2/2021

 

'Mikha'El' wins Best Score at the 2021 Tracks Music Awards

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The original motion picture soundtrack of the feature documentary MIKHA'EL won Best Score at the 2021 Tracks Music Awards, which were held at the L.A. Castle Studios in Burbank, California. Composed by Marcelle Abela who made her debut as primary composer of the film, with additional music by Peter Cavallo and cello solos by Angelo Maria Santisi, MIKHA'EL was adjudicated as Best Score of the Month for the February edition of the Tracks Music Awards by a jury drawn largely from the American performing rights societies ASCAP and BMI. The soundtrack is made up of 16 tracks. This is the first award to be won by MIKHA'EL, which is in the process of commencing its festival run.

News 12

9/24/2020

 

Script of 'Mikha'el' officially selected for Rome Prisma Independent Film Awards

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The script of the feature documentary 'Mikha'El', written by film director and producer Marcelle Abela, has been officially selected for the Rome Prisma Independent Film Awards. Also selected was the official poster of the movie designed by Antonia Harris. Starring a large ensemble cast with multiple story lines in five languages and shot in eight countries, 'Mikha'El' is expected to be released in early 2021.

News 11

4/13/2020

 

Maltese-American filmmaker wins gold in Russia for 4 space science films

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The Gold Prize of the 2020 Tsiolkovsky International Space Film Festival for Best Short Documentary was shared between four films directed and produced by Marcelle Abela. The winning films, chosen out of more than 1000 submissions from 80 countries and broadcast on MoreTV for Easter weekend, were Red Glory, Pillars of Creation, Aurora, and Materre. All these films had previously won awards at other film festivals. The Tsiolkovsky Space Fest was held in Kaluga, Russian Federation, to commemorate art and science related to the field of cosmonautics.

News 10

4/7/2020

 

RED GLORY awarded Best Travel Film in Cannes

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Red Glory, the science documentary directed and produced by Marcelle Abela, music by Mirko Sukovic, has been awarded Best Travel Film at the 5th Global Short Film Awards 2020 that has been held in Cannes, France. This is the 8th award for the short documentary.

News 9

3/28/2020

 

CREATION wins Best Experimental Film in Bucharest

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CREATION, the poetic experimental film directed by Marcelle Abela, with music by Peter Cavallo, has been awarded Best Experimental Film at the 2020 Long Story Shorts International Film Festival, which was held in Bucharest, Romania. This is the fifth award for the film, which is now available on Amazon Prime and Vimeo.

News 8

12/1/2019

 

RED GLORY wins two awards in Cannes

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RED GLORY by Marcelle Abela has been awarded Best New Media Short Documentary and Best Score at the 2019 Mediterranean Film Festival Cannes, France. The music was composed by Mirko Sukovic. Red Glory is a science 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.​ The film has garnered seven awards at international festivals since its release last year.

News 7

11/12/2019

 

CREATION wins Prix Hommage in Quebec

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CREATION, a short film by Marcelle Abela, has been awarded the Prix d'Hommage at the 2019 Annual Festival International de Courts-Metrage d'Auteurs et Narratif in Quebec, Canada. This is the fourth award for Creation, having won Best Editing at the 5th European International Film Festival in Moscow and Best Narrative Short during the June edition of the 2nd FICMAN earlier this year. Featuring music by the Australian composer Peter Cavallo, Creation was also awarded Best Music at the 2019 Top Indie Film Awards in Tokyo.

News 6

9/10/2019

 

CREATION awarded Best Editing in Moscow

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CREATION, the poetic experimental short film by Marcelle Abela, has won Best Editing at the 5th European International Film Festival 2019 that is being held in Moscow, Russia. The film, which explores the conflicting nature of creation, will have its official Russian premiere at the festival awards night on September 28, 2019.

This is the third award for Creation. Earlier this year, the film won Best Narrative Short at the 2nd Festival International de Courts-Metrage d'Auteurs in Quebec, Canada. It was also awarded Best Music at the 2019 Top Indie Film Awards 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 and art were the work of the VFX artist Antonia Harris. The executive producer of the film was Mariella Delia. 

News 5

7/22/2019

 

CREATION wins Best Narrative Short in Canada

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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. 

News 4

6/18/2019

 

CREATION nominated for Best Documentary Short in Italy

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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.

News 3

6/17/2019

 

RED GLORY nominated for Best Internet Video at University of Navarra

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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.​

News 2

6/17/2019

 

RED GLORY wins Best Documentary in Russian Federation

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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.​

News 1

6/17/2019

 

CREATION wins Best Music in Japan

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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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CREDITS:
Header Photos: Mariella Delia
Posters Artwork: Antonia Harris
Writing / Editing: Marcelle Abela
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