David Abel

David Abel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covers fisheries and environmental issues for The Boston Globe. Abel’s work has won an Edward R. Murrow Award, the Ernie Pyle Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Feature Reporting. He co-directed and produced Sacred Cod, a film about the collapse of the iconic cod fishery in New England (Discovery Channel 2017). He directed and produced two films about the Boston Marathon bombings broadcasted on BBC World News, Discovery Life, and Pivot. Abel began learning to make films as a Nieman fellow at Harvard University. In 2018 his film Lobster War won best New England Film at the Mystic Film Festival and Grand Prize runner-up for Best Feature Film at the 2018 International Maritime Film Festival. His film Gladesmen: The Last of the Sawgrass Cowboys garnered the Made in Miami Award at the 2018 Miami Film Festival. Abel is the writer, producer, director, and DP for his latest documentary, Entangled, which won the 2020 Jackson Wild award, known as the Oscars of nature films.