Directors' Vision
Late Fall explores love, ambition, and parenthood, through intimate reflection. Abigail Jean Lucas makes her directorial debut, while Alecia Orsini Lebeda returns to directing after years producing others’ visions. Together, as mothers and filmmakers, they champion stories that resist cliché, embrace complexity, and reflect the resilience of the human spirit.
Hello, I’m Abigail.
I began as an actor – it was obvious as I was always that friend staring a little too long at people on the T (Boston’s subway). Acting gave me permission to explore humanity with curiosity. I spent years studying techniques and resonate strongly with the work of Michael Checkov.
Late Fall, is my directorial debut, a story I began writing before becoming a mom – I guess I intuited some of the struggles of a young couple.
Creating a film has been a mini venture: drawing on my background managing a sales and marketing team, I handled everything from vision to logistics to execution – wearing a lot of hats along the way!
Cheers to independent creators who change the world, one story at a time
I’m also an award winning………But it’s better to go check out my work.
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Alecia Orsini is an award winning Producer, Director and multi-media professional with 15+ years experience working in the film industry. She has worked for GBH fundraising and marketing for local NPR stations, owned her own video production agency as well as advised productions as a consultant.
Alecia is a prominent voice in the region’s film community as President of Women in Film and Video of New England. She also devotes time to Save MA Film Jobs, working behind the scenes for the grassroots organization supporting the Film Tax Incentives in the state of Massachusetts. She’s a staunch advocate, utilizing her experience and platform to amplify the voices of the underserved within the film industry such as women of color and members of the LGBTQI+ communities.
In 2012 she was named one of the Cape & Plymouth Business 40 Under 40 for her volunteer work & entrepreneurship and in 2019 she was named an Imagineer for her service to the film industry by Imagine Magazine. Alecia recently returned to the directors chair and completed filming of the short drama “Late Fall”. Aside from her professional work Alecia is a lifetime member of the Girl Scouts, can drive a stick shift and is the proud mother of a rambunctious toddler.