A young man testifies against his mother for killing his father with secondhand smoke. Inspired by documented cases, "The Pack" weaves together the jury's cinema verite style deliberation, provocative courtroom testimony, flashbacks, and the family's intimate home movies. An ambitious Assistant District Attorney (Carlos Leon, "The Big Lebowski") prosecutes a wife and mother (Arnaz) for murder after her 47-year-old husband dies of lung cancer. Their 24-year-old son decides to testify against her. At first, this appears to be a ridiculous case, but one juror's doubts and inspiration - a student of hers (Moss) - force the jury into an intriguing, emotional and complicated choice regarding addiction, loyalty, and individual responsibility.
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.
