DANIEL ABELLA EARLY ON EXPRESSED A STRONG INTEREST IN THE SCIENCES, ESPECIALLY IN PHYSICS.

IN NEW YORK CITY HE ATTENDED THE BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE, A SPECIALIZED PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL WHICH ADMITS ONLY 10% OF ITS APPLICANTS. IN HIS SENIOR YEAR DANIEL WON THE NEW YORK CITY SCIENCE FAIR WITH HIS PAPER `NON LINEAR STENSOR ANALYSIS', AN INNOVATIVE ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY. AFTER BRONXSCIENCE, DANIEL EARNED HIS BACHELOR'S DEGREE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, WHERE HE MAJORED IN PHYSICS AND BIOCHEMISTRY.

DANIEL BECAME AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE FILMMAKERS CLUB AND WORKED ON VARIOUS PROJECTS. UPON GRADUATION, HE MOVED TO SAN FRANCISCO WHERE HE WORKED AS A RESEARCH ASSISTANT FOR CODON, A BURGEONING BIOTECH STARTUP. TWO YEARS LATER, DANIEL MOVED TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, WHERE HE CAME ACROSS AN ARTICLE ON THE
MANHATTAN PROJECT. WITHIN 6 MONTHS DANIEL PUT TOGETHER A FUNCTIONING BLUEPRINT FOR A PORTABLE NUCLEAR BOMB BASED UPON DECLASSIFED INFORMATION. DANIEL'S FINDINGS WERE CORROBORATED BY HANS BOETHE, A MAJOR PARTICIPANT IN THE MANHATTAN PROJECT. DANIEL'S ARTICLE, `HOW I BUILT A COBALT BOMB FROM
SCRATCH,' WAS PUBLISHED IN THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEWSPAPER, THE SPECTATOR.

OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS DANIEL HAS PURSUED A VARIETY OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS VENTURES, INCLUDING MOTIVATIONAL SEMINARS, MUSIC DISTRIBUTION AND ACCELERATED LEARNING TAPES. DANIEL STUDIED AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY'S ACCELERATED FILM PROGRAM UNDER GARY GASGARTH. HE HAS SHOT AND DIRECTED OVER HALF A DOZEN SHORTS.

IN 2005 DANIEL WROTE AND DIRECTED THE FINAL EQUATION, A MODERN RENDERING OF THE FAUST LEGEND. THIS IS THE STORY OF JACK SMITH, WHO DISCOVERS THE FINAL EQUATION, THE HOLY GRAIL OF PHYSICS, ONLY TO FIND OUT HE HAS OPENED A PORTAL TO A PARALLEL UNIVERSE WHICH SOON THREATENS OUR OWN.

THE FINAL EQUATION IS DANIEL'S FIRST FEATURE.