About

Adnelly Marichal is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, and photographer based on the Central Coast of California. She's currently freelance producing on a variety of projects, such as a series of commissioned videos for the National Forest Foundation, feature documentary films in production and commercial projects. 

Previously, she was a Director and Field Producer for the second season of PBS's America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston.  Her past work spans a wide range of formats and locations, from filming in Guatemala for the James Beard Award–winning Nat Geo series, World Eats Bread, to producing a feature documentary that explores a commune in Switzerland believed to be the birthplace of the anti-abortion movement in the U.S., where she also produced the film’s central re-enactment scenes. The project is currently in post-production.

Some other highlights include filming the reintroduction of beavers in the UK for Wild Hope, a show highlighting the intrepid change-makers who are restoring our wild places, and directing Business Insider's 2-part video series, and The Well Designed Life, featuring the prodigious talents of two female-led architectural firms. Before that, she worked as a Story Producer for National Geographic and Imagine Entertainment on Ron Howard's Emmy-nominated feature documentary, We Feed People, about the work of World Central Kitchen and José Andrés. She is also currently in post-production on Las Jíbaras, a documentary on two generations of Puerto Rican women farmers choosing to fight for food sovereignty. 

As an independent producer, she has worked on projects with HBO, National Geographic, Hulu, Disney + and NBC, among others. She has been featured in The New York Times and Public Radio International's Living on Earth. Her documentary photography has appeared in CNN, Eater, and Mitú, among others. She holds a BA in American Studies from Wesleyan University.

For inquiries, please email adnelly.marichal@gmail.com