Videola

Directed By Alyssa Rallo Bennett

A family struggles to keep their Video store afloat as hints of illegal activity begin to surround the business.

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A family with a grisly secret, led by their troubled matriarch (Sean Young), struggles to keep their vintage local video store afloat while in search for their missing twin daughter, who pulls them all into a global underworld of crime and mixed morals. A mysterious figure, with a vision of the world riding the line between better and worse, provides a possible outlet for the family in need.
Alyssa Rallo Bennett is multi-hyphenate director/producer and singer-songwriter with directorial work inclusive of socially conscious feature film, The Pack, starring Lucie Arnaz, Elisabeth Moss, Zach Galligan accepted into the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival & a dozen international festivals and now streaming on Amazon Prime, ReRUN starring Christopher Lloyd, which premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival and nominated her for a Maverick Award, screened at multiple festivals garnering awards for the director, actors, writer and film, and the feature film Aberrant, starring Jack Quaid, that played multiple festivals and streaming on Amazon currently. 2022 marked the release of her debut album ANYMORE, as composer and writer - with many fantastic reviews including American Pancake’s “The fluid, diverse indie rock storytelling of Pinch That Vein feels like a movie you want to watch". Anymore has taken off globally and streams on all platforms link here: http://bitly.ws/sMBy . She played 4 release shows at Rockwood Music Hall, 76 House in Old Tappan, NJ, and The Bitter End in NYC. Bennett's first training ground was as an actor, working with directors such as Franco Zeffirelli, Andre Gregory, Martin Scorsese. She has directed plays at Ensemble Studio Theater, the Harold Clurman Theater and was accepted into Sundance Institute's Playwriting Lab where she worked as director, writer and actor. She has an MA from NYU Gallatin in Drama & Psychology and a BFA from NYU Tisch Drama.