The Arrival Opens Big Apple Film Festival with NYC Premiere

Stonestreet Studios and Jamaad Pictures at The Big Apple Film Festival

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Viv Helvajian and Nick Hamparyan in The Arrival

The Arrival Premieres at The Big Apple Film Festival on opening night at Cinema Village

Los Angeles, CA (Oct. 31, 2023). Stonestreet Studios and Jamaad Pictures are having their NYC premiere of their latest feature film. The Arrival is at The Big Apple Film Festival on its opening night. Which opens on Friday, November 3 at 7:30pm at Cinema Village. Click here to purchase tickets to the screening. Which is paired with shorts The Shepherd, featuring John Travolta & Ben Radcliffe. And I Am What You Imagine, written and directed by Matthew Modine.

The Arrival had its world premiere at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Society Women in Film Festival. It was a semi finalist in the Austin International Art Festival. And an award winner at the Montreal Independent Film Festival. The Arrival brings an array of patrons seeking to unravel the truth. And uncover the mystery behind their origins, relationships, and boundaries crossed. Only to deeply challenge who they are and might become.

“We all need an ‘arrival’ somewhere, somehow, away from something, or leading into something new. This film allowed its characters to grapple with that,” says director, Alyssa Rallo Bennett. “I hope the audience will enjoy the different journeys, especially the two who make it to the end. Even on a very modest Covid-19 indie budget. Directing this film was like conducting an orchestra. One of stunningly different instruments in front of and behind the camera, and I loved every minute of it!”

Watch the Trailer for The Arrival from Stonestrees Studios and Jamaad Pictures


The Arrival was directed by Alyssa Rallo Bennett, written by Gary O. Bennett, and features performances from Pooya Mohseni, Peter Bradbury, Nick Hamparyan, Daniela Urdaneta, Ines Ladha, Alice Heber Martins, Viv Helvajian, Nik Elrifi, and Deniz Bulat with cinematography by Michael Munari, editing by Amelia Annen, and music by Dan Rufolo and Adam Kromelow.

Both are streaming on Amazon Prime. Her two latest films, Compulsion, starring Saori Goda, Mizz, and Sebastian Mora, and Crowbar, starring Rosalyn Coleman and Jaylen Axel, just world premiered at the Soho Independent Film Festival. Crowbar recently has its West Coast premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival. Alyssa is the co-founder of Stonestreet Studios.

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The Poster Art of The Arrival

He wrote the screenplay ReRUN, featuring Christopher Lloyd, and won awards nationwide including Best Screenplay at the Los Angeles Film Awards. The film premiered closing night of the Woodstock Film Festival, and also screened at the Northeast Film Festival. The film is now available on Amazon Prime, Roku, et al. His scripted crime feature, Who Killed Juliet Matlin? won Big Apple Film Festival’s Screenplay Competition. Gary more recently produced screenplay Compulsion premiered at the 2023 Soho International Film Festival.

His films Artless, which he also directed, and Madness of Art 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. 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. 

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Daniela Urdaneta and Ines Ladha in The Arrival

Stonestreet has become known as an incubator of socially conscious, character driven and culturally provocative content and talent via its residency program for NYU Tisch Drama. It has developed talent including Miles Teller (Whiplash, Divergent), Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, House of Cards), Camila Mendes (Riverdale), Danny Ramirez (Top Gun: Maverick), Beanie Feldstein (Booksmart), Xosha Roquemore (The Mindy Project), Francesca Reale (Stranger Things), Ximena Lamadrid (Bardo), Idina Menzel (Frozen), Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby, Bottoms), Nik Walker (Hamilton) and more.

Jaamad Pictures (Production Company) is an independent production company that produces dramatic films, often darkly humorous and psychologically thrilling, for screen and stage by Alyssa Rallo Bennett and Gary O. Bennett.


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