Dallas and Allegra key art: the couple stands silhouetted before a full moon over the Pittsburgh skyline and steel mills at sunset, with the film's title treatment.

Dallas & Allegra

Name: Dallas & Allegra
Director: J. Penberth Rabold
Genre: Romance, Crime, Short Film

She's got a plane ticket to Oxford. He's got a safe full of cash and one last score. In a steel town built on dead dreams, they fall for each other anyway, and discover the fastest way out of hell is straight through it, together.

Follow the Journey

A dying steel town doesn't leave much room for hope.

He found a reason to stay. She found a reason to run. Neither expected to find it in each other.

The Story

Two people,
one impossible choice

Empty football bleachers marked 'Home of the Wildcats' overlook a fog-covered steel mill town at dusk.

In Bellvue Falls, everyone is addicted to something. Two young star-crossed lovers are about to choose the most dangerous one: each other.

Dallas Dixon, a fallen quarterback turned dealer, is two payments away from walking out of the only life this town ever offered him. Allegra Cunningham, a trust fund baby and heir to the Cunningham steel fortune, was born on the right side of town and is less than a year from a plane to Oxford.

Then she tracks him down at a local diner to return her addict mother's Oxy. One late night conversation later, two people who were never supposed to meet believe they can outrun everything.

A Rust Belt Romeo and Juliet about the ones this town lets disappear, and a love that burns hotter than whatever is trying to put it out.

Stills

Bellvue Falls

Cast & Crew

The Team

J. Penberth Rabold

Writer & Director

Writer/director based between Pittsburgh and LA. Fifteen years as a unit production manager and first assistant director taught him what a story costs once it has to stand on a set, long before he had one worth telling himself. He's come close more times than he can count — a series that went down to the wire, a film that stalled at the finish line — and come to believe storytelling is ultimately about human connection: stories that push characters toward their own self-empowerment and start a conversation about the love that makes us want to survive. Dallas & Allegra is the first film he's making without a gatekeeper across the table, just the people who believe in it — alongside the award-winning short Connected and the series Ghosts of War, a second-round Austin Film Festival selection.

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Shannon Geary

Producer

Pittsburgh-area producer and set photographer with 21 years' experience as a music educator and theater director before moving into film production.

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Daniel J. Lennox

Director of Photography

Writer/director whose debut feature Jackson's Run won Best Feature at the 2012 CMM Film Festival in New York, with nine additional nominations. Known for award-winning shorts built on emotional intensity.

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Jacob Luttrell

“Swyft” · Music Supervisor

Grammy-credited songwriter performing as JACOBISDEAD, with writing credits including Flo Rida's “Wild Ones” and Charlie Puth's “Marvin Gaye.” Plays Swyft and composes original music for the film.

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An empty highway leads toward Bellvue Falls and Wyndham under a burning sunset sky, with the Dallas & Allegra title treatment.