- Filmmaker. Composer. Writer. Abela's feature-length and short documentaries have won many international film festivals, while her science films have been accepted into the official archives of the European Space Agency. An avid reader and movie lover since childhood, Abela considers her films to be influenced by the works of Ken Burns, Werner Herzog, and Andrei Tarkovsky.- IMDb Mini Biography By: AF
- Makes films based on real-life events.
- Often scores the music for her own films.
- Her films at times show archival footage from various sources.
- Cuts her films to the music.
- Won the "Prix Hommage" for Creation (2019) at the Annual Festival International de Courts-Metrage d'Auteurs et Narratifs.
- Won 1st and 2nd prize for Materre (2017) and Aurora (2017) respectively at the 2018 China International Contest of Popular Science Works.
- Her films often make usage of voiceovers or narration.
- Graduate of Springfield College in Springfield, MA.
- Was a classical violinist in a former life.
- Filmmaking is poetry in action
- Screen music is not about music, but about story.
- Nothing is more fascinating than telling a story in language, pictures, and sound.
- Who does not believe in wonders is the poorest of humanity.
- Active visual media immerse the person in the story-telling experience.
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