About
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 as is ReRUN, starring Christopher Lloyd, Teo Rapp-Olson, 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 and 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, and 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, and Videola, featuring Gil Zabarsky, Janet Zarish, and Malcolm 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, which 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 the American Cancer Society, Habitat for Humanity, Housing Works, and a spot for Families of Freedom starring Susan Sarandon supporting children survivors of 9/11.
Last year her album ANYMORE was released on all platforms receiving wonderful reviews, playing four live shows including Rockwood Music Hall, 76 House and The Bitter End. This year as a member of the Yesters, Kingston City Morgue was released on all platforms.