P.J. Marcellino

Marcellino co-directed, wrote, and produced the music documentary When They Awake, which celebrated the renaissance and mainstreaming of Indigenous music and culture in Canada. The film showcased the work of Susan Aglukark, A Tribe Called Red, Tanya Tagaq, Wab Kinew, and many others. Following its world premiere at the Opening Night Gala of the 2017 Calgary International Film Festival, the film went on to gather positive reviews and awards across North America. It received the Best Documentary Feature award at the Hamilton Film Festival and Desert Rocks Film & Music Festival, as well as the Jury's 3rd Prize in the Documentaries of the World category at the Montreal World Film Festival. It was nominated for Best Documentary and Best Environmental Documentary at Red Nation Film Festival.

His first film, After the War: Memoirs of Exile (2014), dealt with issues of memory, PTSD, and intergenerational trauma in a family of German-Ukrainian immigrants to Canada. The soundtrack was composed by Greek-Canadian composer Christos Hatzis and performed by the Juno Award-winning Gryphon Trio. The film was nominated for Best Feature and the Golden Pegasus Award at the 2015 Peloponnesian International Film Festival, and long-listed for a 2015 SAMHSA Voice Award.

Marcellino was an international editor and architecture critic at the Chinese magazine Landscape Design, writing in English, and publishing numerous pieces under the names Pedro F. Marcelino and 潘德磊 (Pin-Yin: Pan De Lei). He authored two best-selling books with the magazine’s publisher, Dalian University of Technology Press: The World's Landscape Design Top-50 (2007) and City + Design + Evolution: Unique Landscape Design from 6 Continents.

P.J. Marcellino (born Pedro José-Marcelino, 24 October 1978) is a Portuguese-Canadian filmmaker.