A selection of new short films
LATE FALL
Directed by Abigail Jean Lucas and Alecia Orsini Lebeda. Co-Director Abigail Jean Lucas will join us in person for a discussion.
In a working-class Boston apartment, a toddler’s demands are pulling two new parents under. Tina carries the weight of everything, certain she’s the only one holding it together. Danny retreats into books, searching for a connection he can’t find at home. Neither can see what the other is carrying. When both cross paths separately with Sophia, a woman who has everything money can buy but is missing everything it cannot, they are finally forced to see each other, perhaps for the first time.
Abigail Jean Lucas is a multi-hyphenate creative — writer, director, producer, and actor — based in Boston, Massachusetts. Trained in Meisner and Michael Chekhov techniques with performance experience at The Juilliard School. A true independent and self-taught filmmaker, she combines a background in sales and marketing with artistic endeavors to advocate for artist independence.
Her work is fueled by motherhood, human dynamics, and the complexity of love, loss and relationship. Having lived internationally across Europe and Latin America, she speaks English and Spanish and carries those experiences into everything she makes.
She founded Late Fall Films to produce her debut short, Late Fall. Beyond film, she is a cinematic vocalist with an album scheduled for release in 2027. More at abigailjeanlucas.com.
Alecia “AJ” Orsini Lebeda is an award-winning multimedia professional with 20 years of film industry experience. A New England-based line producer, director, and crew member, she is a passionate advocate for Massachusetts’ film industry and serves as President Emerita of Women in Film and Video of New England and Save MA Film Jobs. She also teaches at Lesley University and was named an Imagineer by Imagine Magazine in 2019. A lifetime Girl Scout, she is the proud mother of two rambunctious boys.
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STOP COUNTING
KATE AND JACK ARE JUST FRIENDS
Directed by Aubrey Arnason
Recently divorced Kate is faced with a choice when her gorgeous best male friend since high school finally realizes he has feelings for her.
EVERYONE HAS ISSUES…
A film by Christie Lynn Smith
Sara, a neurotic and determined woman, struggles to connect with her unusual new boyfriend.
Christie Lynn Smith is an award-winning actress who has appeared in over 90 television series and films. Christie can currently be seen recurring in HBO’s hit series I Love LA, the 2026 SXSW drama Downbeat, and in Amazon’s hit comedy, The Other Zoey. Christie’s probably best known for playing Deadra Farnum in Breck Eisner’s remake of The Crazies and recurring in FOX’s hit series Bones. Other notable credits include: Grey’s Anatomy, 9-1-1, Chicago Med, Gods and Generals, NCIS, Togetherness, Weeds, Justified, House, Malcolm in the Middle, Dexter, Castle, Boston Legal, ER, and General Hospital. Christie co-wrote and starred in the short film, RATED (2016), which garnered 23 awards while playing at more than 60 festivals around the world. The feature version of RATED, in which Christie stars, co-wrote, and produced, will have its World Premiere this October at The Austin Film Festival (2026). Christie marks her directorial debut with her new short film, EVERYONE HAS ISSUES, which she also wrote and stars in. The film will have its World Premiere at the iconic Music Box Theater in Chicago at the Cinema Femme Short Film Festival on October 12, 2026, right before screening at the 8th Annual Women in Film Festival in Martha’s Vineyard.
THE ART OF MAKING SIMPLE, COMPLICATED.
Directed by Karla Enriqueta Noriega & Maria Jose Noriega
Makos, a full grown adult, is visited by her mother from Mexico. She has to decide if is time to come out of the closet, after almost 30 years in secrecy.
