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.
Abigail Jean Lucas (Writer / Co-Director / “Tina” / EP)
Abigail Jean Lucas is a filmmaker and award-winning actor dedicated to uncovering underlying truths within the everyday. In her directorial debut, Late Fall, Abigail steered the production from script to lead performance, transforming a domestic narrative into a visceral exploration of early parenthood.
Utilizing her training in the Michael Chekhov method, Abigail explored the character of Tina through the lens that even controversial actions are born from a foundation of love. By writing, directing, and starring while simultaneously parenting her own son on screen, she blurred the lines between performance and reality to achieve a radical, “fly-on-the-wall” authenticity. Drawing on the gritty, stoic aesthetic of her Boston roots, Abigail prioritizes raw human performance over cinematic artifice. By documenting a family pulled apart by the life they are building together, she establishes herself as a singular, multifaceted voice in independent film.
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.