Date and Time
Tue, October 7, 2025
@ 4:00 PM

Location
Cinepolis: Theater 8


DIRTY HOLLYWOOD is one of two new documentaries about the untold history of Hollywood, world premiering at the festival as a double bill ... More About Dirty Hollywood -- From Scarface to Reservoir Dogs, The Godfather, Goodfellas, or Heat, gangster films have left their mark on cinema history. To make this film, real actors and directors are featured: Brian De Palma, Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann. They all admit that real gangsters were their “spiritual and technical guides.” The new generation of actors reveal how they secretly met with these figures, and how legality and illegality blurred together on set.

Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 01:00:00
Directed by: Sebastian Perez Pezzani

About the Director(s)

Sebastian Perez Pezzani is an author, director and editor whose work blends journalism and cinema into powerful, cinematic documentaries. For more than twenty years, he has created immersive stories marked by exploration, history, and emotional depth, using flashbacks, temporal shifts, and layered narratives to illuminate both personal and collective challenges. He is the creator of Canal+’s pioneering show L’Effet Papillon and the travel series Les Nouveaux Explorateurs. His directing and editing credits span acclaimed works such as Netflix’s La Línea, Amazon Prime Video’s PSG: Paris, Ville Lumière, Les Routes de l’Impossible (France Télévisions), and Marie Antoinette confidentielle (Canal+). He has also authored documentaries on cinema for OCS (Hollywood so French, Cary Grant, The True Story of the Barrymores, Mike Nichols, Vincente Minnelli, Dirty Hollywood).

Film Info

Premiere: Los Angeles
Release Year: 2025
Country: United States
Language: English

Cast & Credits

Producer: Clara and Julia Kuperberg, Wichita Films
Co-Producer: Martine Melloul/ Kali Pictures

Contacts

Print Source: martine@kalipictures.com

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