MARCELLE ABELA is a Maltese-American documentary filmmaker, writer and composer. The founder-director of Avinu Films and Sergius Records, Abela's documentaries have won many film festivals and her science shorts are in the European Space Agency's official archives. Abela's feature directorial debut Mikha'El (2021) was awarded the European Best Documentary Award at the Brittany International Film Festival. The film also won multiple Best Director, Best Original Film Score and Outstanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles, India and Portugal. Meanwhile, Abela's latest short film Ukraine's Soul: A Tribute to Heroes has won Best Director, Best Documentary and Best Soundtrack awards in London, Athens, Kolkata, Busan and Odesa. An avid reader and movie lover since childhood, Abela considers her documentaries to be influenced by the works of Ken Burns, Werner Herzog and Andrei Tarkovsky.

​As composer, Abela's Poème for piano solo, recorded by the Steinway artist Harry Nowakowki-Fox, was awarded a Silver Medal at the Global Music Awards in San Diego. Meanwhile, both her live synthesizer performance Seeking the Mesosphere and the orchestral composition Deep Winter have won Best Music at the Tracks Music Awards in Los Angeles. Abela's first Explorations album, produced during the pandemic, also received an Honorable Mention at the Music Edition - 10th People's Film Festival in Harlem, New York City. Abela is currently in post-production on her second feature documentary America's Woman, ​which is expected to be released next year. 

Filmmaking is poetry in action.