With director Alyssa Rallo Bennett in person!
Over the course of a quiet afternoon at a popular Manhattan bar, an array of patrons – each dealing with their emotional, physical or professional boundaries being crossed – attempt to uncover the mysteries behind their predicaments, leading them to question who they are and who they might become.
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Alyssa Rallo Bennett directed and co-wrote the award-winning feature film The Pack, starring Lucie Arnaz, Elisabeth Moss, Zach Galligan, accepted into the Tribeca Film Festival and featured in over dozen others, now streaming on Amazon Prime, Tubi, AppleTV and ReRUN, starring Christopher Lloyd, Teo Rapp-Olsson, Sydney Farley et al, premiered closing night of the Woodstock Film Festival where Alyssa was nominated for their Maverick Award as director also had a NYC premiere opening night of the Big Apple Film Festival, won Best Narrative Feature, Best Ensemble, Best Original Story, Best Featured Actor (Christopher Lloyd), Best Young Actor (Teo Rapp-Olson), Best Editing and Honorable Mention for Best Director at the Northeast Film Festival, was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Los Angeles Film Awards and the Sydney Independent Film Festival.
Two new films she directed just world premiered in the 2023 Soho Independent Film Festival, and Newport Beach Film Festival, Compulsion, starring Saori Goda, Mizz and Sebastian Mora & Crowbar starring Rosalyn Coleman & Jaylen Axel. Her new feature film, The Arrival, will be distributed by Gravitas Ventures, and world premiering at the Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Film Festival will subsequently have its NYC premiere at a NYC film festival soon to be announced November 2023.
Alongside her partner, Gary Bennett, Alyssa developed, and acted in Rain Without Thunder starring Jeff Daniels, Linda Hunt, Steve Zahn, Ming Na Wen, now on Netflix was theatrically released and distributed by Orion Classics, featured in over a dozen major international film festivals from the Berlin Film Festival to the Toronto International Film Festival, distributed by Warner Brothers and available now on Amazon Prime and Netflix.
Consequently she directed the pilots Paradise By The Dashboard Light featuring Francesca Reale and Sea Shimooka, which won Best Pilot at Hoboken Film Festival, Videola, featuring Gil Zabarsky, Janet Zarish and Malcom Mills.
She is the co-founder of independent film studio, Stonestreet Studios, that produces socially provocative films, and where she created the Stonestreet Screen Acting & Production Residency for NYU Tisch Drama, that has developed many wonderful actors, directors and hyphenates such as Miles Teller, Rachel Brosnahan, Nik Walker (Hamilton), Camila Mendes, Beanie Feldstein, Idina Menzel, Ximena Lamadrid (Bardo), Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby, Bottoms) et al.
Many of the festival shorts she’s directed continue to stream on ShortsTV and StonestreetTV, including Them, Oswald, Uberpool, The Celebrity of Art, Hopeful, Nowhere Girl, Trudy Gets Tindered, The Same Old… Basquait, Leading Story, Ink on Her Hands et al. Alyssa has also directed several Public Service Announcements for American Cancer Society, Habitat for Humanity, Housing Works and a spot for Families of Freedom starring Susan Sarandon supporting children survivors of the 9/11.
Last year her album ANYMORE was released to strong reviews on all platforms, playing live shows at Rockwood Music Hall, 76 House & The Bitter End. This year as member of the Yesters, Kingston City Morgue was released on all platforms.
Gary O. Bennett a writer/director/producer and co-founder of Stonestreet Studios, an independent film studio producing socially provocative films, pilots and series. He wrote and directed Rain Without Thunder, a feature film starring Jeff Daniels, Betty Buckley, Linda Hunt and Steve Zahn, released nationally by Orion Classics after premiering at the San Francisco Film Festival, on the east coast in the NY Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and then The Berlin International Film Festival.
His latest feature screenplay The Arrival, will be released by Gravitas Ventures, world premiering at Martha’s Vineyard Women’s FF and consequently in a TBA NYC film festival in November. He wrote the screenplay ReRUN, featuring Christopher Lloyd, won awards nationwide including Best Screenplay at the Los Angeles Film Awards after premiering closing night of the Woodstock Film Festival, which also screened at the Northeast Film Festival, where it won Best Narrative Feature, Best Ensemble, Best Original Story, Best Featured Actor (Christopher Lloyd), Best Young Actor (Teo Rapp-Olson), Best Editing and Honorable Mention for Best Director (Alyssa Rallo Bennett) at the 2019 Los Angeles Film Awards, and was a semi-finalist in the Sydney Independent Film Festival. The film is now available on Amazon Prime, Tubi, Freevee et al.
Gary co-wrote The Pack, directed by Alyssa Rallo Bennett, starring Lucie Arnaz and Elizabeth Moss et al and was accepted into the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. His pilots include Videola, starring Sean Young and Janet Zarish, and Nowehere Girl also directed by his partner, Alyssa and Chris Naoki Lee.
He has written multiple web-based series including the 250 episode The 47th Floor, featuring Miles Teller, Zach Galligan, Rachel Annette Helson, and many more, and End It All Now, also starring Galligan.
His scripted crime feature, Who Killed Juliet Matlin? which won Big Apple Film Festival’s Screenplay Competition and recently received an honorable mention in London International Film Festival Feature Screenplay category. Feature film Juden Rift won the Fade In Award, and his more recently produced screenplays, Compulsion just premiered in the 2023 Soho International Film Festival, Artless which he directed and Madness of Art directed by Alyssa Bennett are currently on the festival circuit with wins at Niagara Falls International Short Festival, Austin International Art Festival, Hudson Valley Film Fest, Manhattan Film Festival and New York Cinefest.
Gary has written many festival shorts and Stonestreet’s branded MicroMovies, now streaming on ShortsTV and StonestreetTV. His latest play, Colorado, was presented in a staged reading at Playwrights Horizons. Currently he’s working on a new play The Plumber, along with a few screenplays in different stages of development. Gary holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Science in Business from SUNY at Buffalo, and a Law Degree and a Master of Social Welfare Degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
