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AMERICA'S WOMAN

A JOURNEY INTO THE HEART​ OF AMERICA'S PAST AND FUTURE
The story revolving around the mysterious woman, overlooked by historians, who had a profound influence on George Washington,
his vision for America, and its independence – a vision that can deeply influence the nation’s present need for healing and unity.
Now Streaming on Avinu Films Channel
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Theatrical Trailer
Festival Trailer
America's Woman wins Best International Documentary Feature in Hollywood

8th Golden State Film Festival, TCL Chinese Theaters

America's Woman wins big at Asian premiere in the
Visionary Filmmaking line-up of Mei International Film Festival

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MEIIFF AWARDS:
  1. Best Documentary Feature - AMERICA'S WOMAN
  2. Best Director - MARCELLE ABELA
  3. Best Producer - MARCELLE ABELA & CHARLES THOMPSON
  4. Best Narrators - CHEPI ANTHONY MILLER
  5. Best Narrators - WARREN WILCOCK
  6. Director of Photography - NOELLE WATSON
  7. Best Editor & Colorist - RICHARD FRANSELL
  8. Best Original Score of a Feature Film - AMERICA'S WOMAN (composers MARCELLE ABELA & DAVID TERNYIK)

2024 | Documentary, Drama, History

   Stunning and moving.
   A truly impressive masterpiece.
   A must-see documentary.
   Watch the film again and again.
   A unique film.
   Defies expectations at every turn.
   A riveting, edge-of-your-seat film.
   A brilliant, masterly-crafted opus.
   A meditation on the meaning of America.
   A work of great interest due to all the values it conveys.
   Gripping and heart-rending.
   Shockingly powerful.
   As much of a poem as a documentary.
   Great production with vivid portrayals.
   Very beautiful work.
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​AMERICA'S WOMAN

A JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF AMERICA'S PAST AND FUTURE

​Does America's future depend on its past? Will America survive? 

The award-winning documentary feature AMERICA'S WOMAN is the first film to explore in depth 
a mysterious woman’s influence on George Washington, his vision for America, and its independence – a vision that can deeply influence the nation’s present need for healing and unity.
WRITER AND DIRECTOR
Marcelle Abela
PRODUCERS
Charles Thompson
​Marcelle Abela
NARRATORS
Chepi Anthony Miller
​Warren Wilcock
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Marcelle Abela
​David Ternyik
TOP CAST
John Koopman III
​Bonnie Victora Kiefer
Adam Carrizales
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Ronald Wilson Reagan
George Walker Bush
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Malcolm X
​Martin Luther King, Jr.
​The Wampanoag Nation
CHARACTER ART
Dellaf Semiga

TECHNICAL DETAILS and AVAILABILITY
SOUND: D-Cinema 96kHz 5.1
ASPECT RATIO: 1.85:1
LENGTH: 73 mins.
SUGGESTED RATING: R (equivalent)
AVAILABLE: DCP, Streaming, BluRay.
SOCIAL MEDIA ASSETS
HISTORIC IMAGES AND RESEARCH
PRESS KIT

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Awards and Nominations

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NOMINATIONS
  • NOMINEE | Golden FEMI Film Festival (BULGARIAN PREMIERE)
    • ​DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
  • NOMINEE | Golden Lion Annual Awards
    • ​DIRECTION / DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
  • NOMINEE | International Motion Picture Awards
    • FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
  • NOMINEE | Milwaukee Independent Film Awards
    • ​BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
  • FINALIST | 9th Near Nazareth Film Festival
    • FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
  • FINALIST | Rome Prisma Independent Film Awards
    • ​DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS​
  • 36th Festival de Cinema de Girona (SPANISH PREMIERE)
  • Authentic Global Film Festival
  • Beyond Border International Film Festival​​​​
  • i-Fest International Film Festival, in partnership with RAI Cinema and the Italian Film Institute (WORLD PREMIERE)​​
  • Hunter Mountain Film Festival (EAST COAST PREMIERE)​​
AWARDS
  • WINNER | 8th Golden State Film Festival (HOLLYWOOD/WEST COAST PREMIERE at TCL Chinese Theaters)
    • ​BEST INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM​
  • WINNER | Impact Docs Awards
    • ​AWARD OF MERIT SPECIAL MENTION - DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
    • AWARD OF MERIT SPECIAL MENTION - ORIGINAL SCORE
  • WINNER | Accolade Global Film Competition
    • ​AWARD OF MERIT - DIRECTION
  • WINNER | Authentic Global Film Awards
    • CERTIFICATE OF MERIT - DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
  • WINNER | Cinematic European Film Festival​ (ROMANIAN PREMIERE)
    • ​SPECIAL AWARD - BEST DOCUMENTARY
  • WINNER | Festival Napoleon sur les Champs-Elysees, in partnership with the City of Paris (FRENCH PREMIERE)
    • BEST POLITICAL FILM
  • WINNER | Golden Lion International Film Festival
    • BEST DIRECTOR (Feature)
    • BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
  • WINNER | Mei International Film Festival - Visionary Filmmaking line-up (ASIAN PREMIERE)
    • BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE / BEST DIRECTOR
    • BEST PRODUCER / BEST NARRATORS
    • BEST DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
    • BEST EDITOR / BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (Feature)
  • WINNER | Tracks Music Awards
    • ​BEST MOVIE SCORE/SOUNDTRACK
  • WINNER | Black Cat International Film Festival - Cinema for Humanity line-up (BOLIVIAN PREMIERE)
    • ​SPECIAL MENTION - DOCUMENTARY
  • WINNER | Athens International Arthouse Film Festival & Piano B Film Festival
    • ​HONORABLE MENTION - DOCUMENTARY FEATURE​
  • WINNER | Global Music Awards
    • ​BRONZE MEDAL - ORIGINAL SCORE/SOUNDTRACK

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

WINNER - BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Mei International Film Festival
Tracks Music Awards

AWARD OF MERIT SPECIAL MENTION
Impact Docs Awards

​BRONZE MEDAL
​Global Music Awards
FEATURED SOLOISTS
ACOUSTIC GUITAR
BASS GUITAR
BUGLE
​CELLO
FIELD HOLLER
FIFE
NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE
PIANO
SOPRANO
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​TENOR​
​ORIGINAL MUSIC
​ADDITIONAL MUSIC



LYRICS
​ARRANGEMENTS & ORCHESTRATION​
​SCORE MIXING & MASTERING
POST-PRODUCTION
LABEL
released
Jonathan Edwards
William Pearson
MU 1st Class Bill Dunn
​Robert Cohen
Henry Jimpson-Wallace
Craig Riley
David Ternyik, Mary WIlliams
Marcelle Abela, Maria Ricci
​MU 1st Class Amy Nicole Broadbent, Caroline Joy Clarke
​Darren Clarke
Marcelle Abela, David Ternyik
Johann Sebastian Bach, Bvt. Maj. Gen. J. C. Barnard, Irving Berlin, Daniel Butterfield, John Stafford Smith

Emma Lazarus, Francis Scott Key
​Marcelle Abela, Raymond Magri
​Childeric Legrain
Mixxejn Studio, Northshore Studio
Avinu Films
8/12/24

Film Thanks

SPECIAL THANKS​​​
Dr. Stefan Attard, Adam Harris, Michael A. Levine,
​Noam Kroll, Srinath Nagarajan, Ro Stubbs
THANKS​​​
Dave Berkebile, Hugh Brown, Gina Caruso, Stephen Coit, William Commanda, David Corporon, Anthony Crider, Adam Cuerden, Cyrus E. Dallin, Jim Emerson, Brennan Gilmore, Dr. Mark Heath, Kevin Hershberger, Carol Highsmith, Wenceslaus Hollar, Jonathan Holmes, Chris Hopewell, Mark Laganga, Jim Lo Scalzo, Luke Magelson, F. A. Martin, Tyler Merbler, Dan Meyers, Nanepashemet, Don O'Brien, Charles L. Philippi, Jon Poindexter, Steve Pruitt, Steve Pyke, Paul Revere, Ben Riesman, Karen Rinaldo, Abbie Rowe, Thomas Ruckle, Erin Schaff, Christian Schussele, Monika Sengul-Jones, Chip Somodevilla, Shannon Stapleton, Sarah Stierch, Cecil Stoughton, Thomas Sully, Michael Swan, William Talbott, James Tourtellote, John Trumbull, Kevin Westley, Anniella Weise, Stanley Wolfson, Lee Wright
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OTHER THANKS
​Albany Evening Journal
Alice Augusta Rogerson Brown Photographic Collection, Digital Commonwealth at Massachusetts Collections Online ​

Archive.org
​Bridgewater State College

Chester County Times
Das Bundesarchiv
Eisenhower Media Network
​Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration
Erie Daily Dispatch

​Falmouth Museums on the Green
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington
George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum
George Eastman House of Photography and Film

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Harvard University
​Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe
​​Indiana Historical Society

Indigenous New England Digital Collections, Boston Children's Museum​
Kean Collection, Getty Images
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
​Middleton Place Foundation
Minor Family Papers, University of Virginia Library
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
​Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

National Institute of Standards and Technology
Native North American Indian Old Photos Collection by Jonathan Holmes
New York Post
​New York World Telegram & The Sun

Nobel Foundation
​Oregon Department of Transportation
​Parler Videos Exhibit Collection, ProPublica Insurrection Database Online

Plimoth Patuxet Museums
Potomac News & Messenger
Portraiture Project, The Harvard Foundation
Rare Books and Manuscripts Department, Boston Public Library

OTHER THANKS (cont.)
Rutgers University Law Review
Sarasota County Public Schools
Savannah Daily Herald

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Photography Collection,
​The New York Public Library Digital Collections
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian​
Southern Poverty Law Center
State Library of Massachusetts, Boston
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Hispanic Society of America
​The History List

The Honolulu Advertiser
The Huntington Library

The Library Company of Philadelphia
The Mashpee Enterprise
The Massachusetts Teacher

The Message Runner
​The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The National News
​The New York Times
The Palm Beach Post

The Pennsylvania Journal & Weekly Advertiser​
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Transportation Security Administration
​Unite Here Local 1

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
​United States Customs and Border Protection
United States Department of Defense
​United States Department of Justice

United States Government Publishing Office
United States Library of Congress
United States National Archives and Records Administration
United States National Park Service

United States Navy Band
University of Georgia Digital Library
​University of Nebraska-Lincoln Digital Commons

WBZ Radio
Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries
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​All rights reserved.
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