Our Team

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

Founder / Executive Producer

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.

Julie Chabot

Partner / Senior Editor

JULIE CHABOT is partner and senior editor. She has designed and cut more than 80 hours of top-rated, prime-time, award-winning documentaries and television series. Most recently, Julie completed ORIGINS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM for NOVA ScienceNOW’s “Where Did I Come From” series,  as well as MAN-MADE DISASTERS for National Geographic Channel’s “Naked Science” series.  She also recently completed AMERICA’S LOST H-BOMB, a one-hour special about a U.S. nuclear bomb that disappeared just off the coast of Georgia in 1958.

Born and raised in Quebec, Canada, Julie began her long career in Montreal cutting music videos for Celine Dion, among others. Too passionate to simply watch the world through her playback monitors, Julie is also an avid world traveler. For seven years she lived and sailed solo on her ketch in the St. Laurence River, Bahamas and Haiti. In the winter of 2003, after riding solo from Virginia to California on her Low Rider Harley, she crewed a sailing vessel from Venezuela to the Azores across the Atlantic. In 2005, Julie took a two-month solo trek through South East Asia in the rural areas of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. In 2008, she spent 3 months sailing and trekking through Central America. Most recently, she purchased some land, a horse and a few chickens in the mountainous region of Chiriqui, Panama, where she intends to build her dream house. She lives in and loves Brooklyn, New York.