MARABELLA PRODUCTIONS is an award-winning, independent production company with a special focus in science, history and current affairs.
Since launching in 2003, the company has produced more than two dozen hours of limited series and documentary programming. In 2004, the company’s award winning one-hour documentary on the space shuttle Columbia accident, COMING HOME FROM SPACE: The Challenge of Reentry, earned a News and Documentary Emmy® nomination for Outstanding Science, Technology, and Nature Programming. As a follow-up, Discovery commissioned the company to produce RETURN TO FLIGHT, a three-hour mini series that follows NASA engineers and astronauts as they prepare for the first space shuttle launch since the tragedy. In May of 2007, BASE CAMP MOON premiered as the first episode in Discovery Science Channel’s highly touted Space Week and won a Cine Golden Eagle. Shortly following, Marabella Productions co-produced AMERICA’S LOST H-BOMB with Discovery— the story of a U.S. nuke lost in the shoals of Tybee Island Georgia and still missing since 1958. Their latest series, ROBOCAR, premiered on The Science Channel in July 2008. Most recently, the company produced three major specials for the National Geographic Channel – THE SCIENCE OF FIREWORKS, EARTH WITHOUT THE MOON, and FINDING THE ORIGINS OF LIFE. Currently, the company is working on specials for NOVA ScienceNOW and the National Geographic Channel. Marabella Productions is headquartered in New York City.

MARK MARABELLA

MARK MARABELLA is an Emmy® nominated writer / producer and founder of Marabella Productions. He has nearly 20 years of experience developing, writing, producing, or directing more than 1oo hours of documentaries and series for The Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic Channel and PBS. Mark is also a member of the Writers Guild and a long-time active member of the Producers Guild of America serving as its Vice Chairman in New York, as well as Chairman of its Documentary Committee.

Prior to founding Marabella Productions, Mark was the show-runner and writer of 60 hours of The Discovery Channel’s top-rated prime-time forensics procedural series THE FBI FILES for three and half seasons. Through his storytelling, the award-winning series became number one on Discovery two years running, remaining among Discovery’s top-rated shows of all time, most recently anchoring the launch of Discovery’s new channel, INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY. Based on the series’ success, Mark was then tapped to co-develop and launch production on CRITICAL RESCUE, a prime-time Discovery Channel series featuring stories of advanced rescue teams and emergency medicine premiering in the spring of 2003.

Originally from Buffalo, New York, Mark began his television career two decades earlier at VH1 in New York City working on comedies, talk shows, and music documentaries many of which were nominated for Cable Ace Awards. He went on to become Director of Production and Development for the award winning, independent television and documentary company Globalvision, where he supervised many investigative human rights programs for PBS, the last titled GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS hosted by award winning journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault. The one-hour documentary won top honors at the World Film Fest in Houston. His work has been broadcast internationally in over 100 countries. Mark has also written for numerous independent newspapers and magazines, and worked closely with top literary and talent agents in New York City. He is married and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and daughter.

Joseph Schroeder

JOSEPH SCHROEDER is the production manager for Marabella Productions.  Joe plays a big part in making the company run, handling all manner of details and crisis, from web design and marketing, to making sure our crews arrive and return safely from the four corners of the planet.

Originally hailing from northern New Jersey, Joe was first bit by the television bug at NBC’s “The Apprentice,” where he landed a job organizing the logistics for the second unit.  As they say, the rest is history.  He was hooked for good.  In the ensuing years, Joe worked for several Emmy-award winning production companies, including Mark Burnett Productions, True Entertainment, and The Independent Production Fund.  However, it was only with the famed “Perlmutter production team” at IPF that he realized he had a passion for documentary.  Sensing a way to right the wrongs of the world through film, he developed what one IPF producer called “a social conscience.”  He has been bringing this “conscience” to Marabella Productions since 2008, as it continues to make high-quality, award-winning documentary fare.

With a background in communications and graphic design from the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University, Joe also creates the look and feel of several things you’ll see on www.marabellaproductions.com and its related sites.  He and his wife currently reside in the quiet suburb of Rahway, New Jersey.