Short film

Sunday Dinna
2025 · 10 min
A loud, loving family dinner turns into a comic standoff over one small confession, played with warmth and just enough bite.
- Directed by
- Samantha Venturo
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Starring
- Marc De Stefano, Rachel Petsiavas, Luca Pietro
- Tagline
- Blood is thicker than sauce
- Overview
- An Italian-American family in Queens, NY sits down for their weekly traditional “Sunday Dinna." Isabella announces to the family over multiple plates of moozadell and meatballs, that she's... a VEGAN.
- How it feels
- Warm, satirical, tense and earnest. Brisk and easy to follow.
- About
- Family, identity, trauma, love
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Samantha Venturo
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Starring
- Marc De Stefano, Rachel Petsiavas, Luca Pietro

