AMERICA'S WOMAN

Expected 2023 | Documentary, Drama

IN POST-PRODUCTION​

The feature documentary AMERICA'S WOMAN is an exploration of how George Washington's vision for America as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, then as 1st. President of the United States, is impacting the nation today. 

WRITER AND DIRECTOR
Marcelle Abela

PRODUCERS
Mariella Delia
​Marcelle Abela

NARRATORS
Chepi Anthony Miller
Warren Wilcock

TOP CAST
John Koopman III, Bonnie V Kiefer, Al Underwood, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Malcolm X, Abraham Lincoln, Adam Carrizales, Ben Koschella, Three Wampanoag Women, Elizabeth Koch

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Marcelle Abela

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Marcelle Abela

ADDITIONAL MUSIC
Daniel Butterfield
​John Stafford Smith
David Ternyik
Samuel Augustus Ward

SOUND AND RE-RECORDING ENGINEER
Childeric Legrain

EDITOR
Richard Fransell

SOLOISTS
MU1 Amy Nicole Broadbent
MU1 Bill Dunn
Henry Jimpson-Wallace
​Angelo Maria Santisi 
SCM Courtney R. Williams

CHARACTER ART
Dellaf Semiga

RAW STILLS

Some Herring Pond, Gay Head Aquinnah, and Mashpee Wampanoag being featured in America's Woman.

THANKS

SPECIAL THANKS​​​

• Dr. Stefan Attard
• ​Michael Levine​​
• Srinath Nagarajan

THANKS​​​

• Adam Cuerden
• ​Jonathan Holmes​​
• ​Tyler Merbler
• ​Steven Pruitt
• Paul Revere
• Christian Schussele
• Thomas Sully
• ​James Tourtellote
• John Trumbull
• ​Lee Wright​

OTHER THANKS

• Alice Augusta Rogerson Brown Photographic Collection, Digital Commonwealth at Massachusetts Collections Online. ​​
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York City. 
• Indigenous New England Digital Collections, Boston Children's Museum, Massachusetts.​
• Native North American Indian Old Photos Collection curated by Jonathan Holmes.
• Parler Videos Exhibit Collection, ProPublica Insurrection Database Online.
• Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
• Rare Books and Manuscripts Department, Boston Public Library, Massachusetts.
• Rutgers University Law Review, New Jersey.
• Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D. C.
• Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, Alabama.
• State Library of Massachusetts, Boston.​
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia. 
• The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, Mount Vernon, Virginia. 
• The History List, Marlborough, Massachusetts.
• The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
• The Library Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.​
• The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California.
• United States Department of Justice, Washington D. C.
• United States Government Publishing Office, Washington D. C.
• United States Library of Congress, Washington D. C.
• United States National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.
• United States Navy Band, Washington D. C.
• WBZ Radio, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, Massachusetts.

Nothing is more fascinating than telling a story
​in language, pictures, and sound