Pizza wasn’t invented in New Haven. It was perfected there.
Marinara sauce runs red through the streets of New Haven in this surprising, delectable documentary which profiles three pizza restaurants — Pepe, Sally’s & Modern — that together stand as the cornerstone of the town’s Italian-American heritage and connoisseurs of the tastiest incarnations of America’s favorite comfort food. This mouth watering documentary will make you laugh & leave you hungry. As we say, pizza wasn’t invented in New Haven, it was perfected there.
It should be noted that it is in Pizza A Love Story where Dave Portnoy, of Barstool Sports, first declared New Haven the Pizza Capital of the United States, some two years before his famous 2021 tweet.
Directed by Gorman Bechard
Produced by Gorman Bechard, Dean Falcone, Colin M. Caplan
Edited by Gorman Bechard & Brianna Marcosano
Music by Dean Falcone
Featuring: Lyle Lovett, Michael Bolton, Dave Portnoy, Henry Winkler
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Film screenings include the following:
IFFBoston, April 2019 – sold out screening
Greenwich International Film Festival, June 2019 – two sold out screenings
NHdocs: the New Haven Documentary Film Festival, June 2019 – two sold out screenings
Woods Hole Film Festival, July 2019 – sold out screening (450 attendees)
Sidewalk Film Festival, August 2019 – two sold out screenings
Chicago screening, August 2019 – sold out
History Film Festival, Croatia, September 2019 – sold out screening
Woodbridge, Connecticut screening, September 2019 – sold out
Mystic Film Festival, October 2019
Ridgefield Film Festival, October 2019 – sold out
Pickford Film Center, Bellingham, WA, October 2019 – sold out
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, October 2019 – sold out
Bowtie Criterion Cinema, New Haven – one week theatrical run beginning February 14, 2020
DVD release, September, 2020
Official Poster (free to use on pages related to Pizza A Love Story)
