An Autumn Summer - Director Jared Isaac & Cinematographer Brandon Somerhalder

An Autumn Summer is a coming of age love story that tells the tale of Kevin (Mark McKenna) and Cody (Lukita Maxwell), a young couple spending the final month before college in a magical Michigan lake town, chasing an endless summer. Per Jared Isaac: “The story is real, the place is real, and it’s a feeling I’ve wanted to bottle up and take with me wherever I am. It’s pure and uncynical, unapologetically romantic. It’s about the few individuals who stay with us forever, whether we’re conscious of it or not.” The film stars Apple+' hit series Shrinking's break-out actress Lukita Maxwell (upcoming in A24's Backrooms) and Wayne/Sing Street's Mark McKenna. An Autumn Summer can bee seen theatrically in select theaters, including Los Angeles, beginning on May 8th. It will also be expanding from there theatrically across the country and will be available on digital platforms to stream beginning on June 2.

About the filmmaker - Jared Isaac is a writer, director, and producer. He attended the University of Miami, where he studied mathematics and economics before turning fully to filmmaking. An Autumn Summer marks his feature directorial debut, which he independently wrote, produced, and directed, drawing from personal experience and long-standing creative relationships. The film premiered on the festival circuit, where it received strong critical and audience response, including Best Director Phoenix Film Festival 2025. Following An Autumn Summer, Isaac adapted Zane Grey’s Riders of the Purple Sage for Samuel Goldwyn Films, expanding his work into literary adaptation and studio-backed feature development. He is currently developing future narrative projects.

About the filmmaker - Brandon Somerhalder is an American cinematographer/producer raised between Colorado and Kansas, and currently based in Los Angeles. After initially studying analog photography, he attended University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. After graduating with a degree in Film Production, he continued his pursuit of telling real-world stories by photographing issue-driven documentaries around the world; He was the co-director of photography on the Oscar-nominated short documentary A CONCERTO IS A CONVERSATION. He was producer and cinematographer on Oscar-winning short documentary THE QUEEN OF BASKETBALL. Recent projects as Director of Photography include the Netflix documentary series LIVE TO 100: SECRETS OF THE BLUE ZONES, THE EYES OF GHANA, executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, and the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Audience Favorite Award winning documentary COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT, acquired by Apple TV+ and Academy Award nominated for Best Documentary Feature 2026. AN AUTUMN SUMMER marks his first and only narrative feature to date.