About 'Autumn'
“You gotta leave home to find your way home”
In a small Portuguese town, a family's dynamic is thrown into turmoil when their son leaves to study in London. Focusing only on the school breaks when he comes back home (Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn), we observe snapshots of a daughter’s coming of age, a father's mid-life crisis, a son’s emancipation and a mother learning to cope with an "empty nest”. 'Autumn’ is an intimate, heartwarming and nuanced portrayal of family relationships, offering a poignant reflection on how we all often struggle to move on, grow up and grow old.
When parents have kids, they sacrifice a lot of things for us, and then we just leave. They spend decades turning down their friends to spend time with their kids, they put aside their wildest dreams for secure jobs for their kids, and suddenly, we are gone. Just like that, the house becomes empty and parents need to change their priorities in life and face each other for the first time in many years. And on top of that, as a person going back home, you feel you’ve changed so much when you were away that you no longer are the person they remember and suddenly they too feel very different and the connection you once had starts to fade away.
Meet The Team
ANTONIO SEQUEIRA is an award-winning writer/director whose films have participated in a number of high profile festivals including the Academy Award Qualifying ‘Encounters Film Festival’, ‘Short Shorts Film Festival’, ‘Camerimage’ and the BAFTA Qualifying ‘Norwich Film Festival’, among others. ‘Autumn’ is his debut feature based on a script that was developed with the aid of the Torino Film Lab. In Post- production, the film was part of the First Cut Lab. As a work-in- progress, it was also selected to the “Goes to Cannes” section of the MarcheĢ du Film in the Festival of Cannes. In addition to completing his next screenplay, Angel Boy, he directed the limited series 'Instaverse' for Portuguese broadcaster, RTP. He is also the founder of film production company Movie Monkeys and recently co-founded Kurious Studios with producer Steven Flynn and recurring creative partner, Anastasiia Vorotniuk. Antonio is a graduate of the London Film School with an MA in Filmmaking and a member of BAFTA. He currently works between his home in London and Porto.
Antonio Sequeira
Writer/Director & Producer
ANASTASIIA VOROTNIUK is an experienced film director and DOP from Ukraine having worked across features, TV, shorts and documentaries.
Anastasiia’s Director of Photography credits include the TV series ‘Instaverse’ for Portuguese broadcaster RTP in 2020, and the feature film ‘Autumn’. As writer/director, her recent short film ‘Me, my Germs and James’ screened at the Oscar qualifying Encounters Film Festival in the UK, and the BAFTA-qualifying Bolton International Film Festival. In 2022, her script for the dark comedy "When I Grow Up, I wanna be an Alcoholic" was selected by the Torino Film Lab... As a filmmaker, she is constantly exploring and studying the art of storytelling through different styles, formats and between narrative and factual.
Anastasiia is the founder of film production company Movie Monkeys and recently co-founded Kurious Studios with producer Steven Flynn and recurring creative partner, Antonio Sequeira. She is a graduate of the London Film School with an MA in Filmmaking and currently resides in London.
Anastasiia Vorotniuk
Cinematographer & Producer
JOANA DOMINGUES is a lead producer at Caracol Studios, a company based in Portugal that she founded alongside Tim Vieira, Hugo MendoncĢ§a, and multi-award winning director Bruno Gascon. She is a member of the Board of European Film Academy.
Since 2016, the company’s projects have been sold worldwide to several territories and to streaming platforms such as HBO Max and Netflix. She has produced three feature films, ‘Carga’, ‘Shadow’ & ‘Evadidos’ and is currently producing a
TV Series for RTP. These have received awards, nominations, and selections in international festivals such as Mastercard Off Camera, Shanghai International Film Festival, Barcelona Sant-Jordi Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, among others.
Joana Domingues
Executive Producer
STEVEN FLYNN is a London based film producer with over 15 years working in the film and creative communications industry. He has been active producing in both the UK and the US with two feature films currently in distribution, alongside several shorts.
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Currently, Steven is Head of Film at Flynn Studios and co-founder of Kurious Studios, a film production company that focuses on delivering commercially and theatrically geared narrative films for global audiences. He is a member of BAFTA, and the Producers Guild of Europe.
Steven Flynn
Executive Producer
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