Gary O. Bennett is a prolific writer and filmmaker, known for his compelling narratives in feature films and shorts.
Spanning three decades, his work showcases a profound commitment to storytelling and charactor across both stage and cinema.
About >
Screenplays:
Features
& Pilots
PRODUCED
WRITER
Scarecrow
Nowhere Girl
Videola
ReRun
Paradise By The Dashboard Light
End It All Now
The Pack
The Arrival
WRITER & DIRECTOR
The 47th Floor
Rain Without Thunder
The Code
Screenplays:
Features
& Pilots
UNPRODUCED
Two
Silent Heat
When Androids Dream
Boomerang
Mentor
Who Killed Juliet Matlin?
The Trainer
The Chase
Respekt (pilot and episode 2)
Stageplays
PRODUCED
Colorado
Juden Rift
The Red Chair
The Plumber
IN DEVELOPMENT
Amber
Short Films
PRODUCED
WRITER
The Plans They are Developin’
Compulsion
Six Double Five 321
The Standard
Rightsize
Isabella and Claudio
Axon
WRITER & DIRECTOR
Harvard
POD
Bosons in the Library
Artless
Joke Number One
The Green Line
Enough About Love
Tarantino Gets a Performance
The Joke’s On Them
Prattling Planets Into Submission
Netflix Lear
Line, Please
The Babysitter
Heartbeat
Breakdown
The Agent
Short Films
UNPRODUCED
Calvin
The Trolley Problem
The Bowling Ball
Trapped
Drop All Newborns at Alito’s Front Door
Reproductive Rights
Short Films
UNPRODUCED
Lubbock
New York
North Carolina
Utah
Missouri
Indiana
Massachusetts
California
Screenplays
IN DEVELOPMENT
WRITER
Two
Praying Mantis
Dart
About
GARY O. BENNETT
Gary O. Bennett is a prolific 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.
Screenplays: His latest feature screenplay The Arrival, was released by Gravitas Ventures, world premiering at Martha’s Vineyard Women’s Film Festival and premiered opening night at the SVA Theater in Chelsea at the Big Apple Film Festival November 2023.
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 streaming on AppleTV, Tubi, Amazon.
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 streaming on Amazon Prime, Tubi, AppleTV. His pilots include Videola, starring Sean Young and Janet Zarish, and Nowhere Girl also directed by his partner, Alyssa and Chris Naoki Lee.
Series: 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.
Features: 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.
Shorts and MicroMovies: 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.