Ticket details: Includes one piece of pizza from Sally’s, Pepe’s, and Modern + Bottle of water + Entry to the film

Event schedule: Doors open at 5:30. Pizza and water will be served as you enter. The film will start at 7PM. Q&A and general pizza discussion with Gorman Bechard and Ed Levine will take place around 8:45.

This is a love story about three guys and their limitless affection for three pizza places in New Haven. Most everyone has a passion for pizza, but only New Haven lays claim to the Holy Trinity of pizza joints with Sally’s, Pepe’s, and Modern. They are not only a cornerstone of New Haven’s Italian-American heritage but also the establishments that set the bar for this immediately recognizable comfort food. National polls agree: these are the pizzas by which all others are measured.

The film will take us on a journey that began in 1925 with the pies that would change the world. We have talked to the families, the employees, and especially the fans (both the famous and unknown) who’ll wait in line for hours for a taste. Celebrities and area big-wigs are called on to extol the virtues of New Haven pizza: actor Henry Winkler; singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett; crooner Michael Bolton; politicians; Italian guys from the old neighborhood; Polish women who know to call it “apizz” not pizza, all get their chance to set the world straight on the importance of New Haven pizza.

Join us after the film for a Q&A and general discussion about pizza with director Gorman Bechard and Ed Levine, author of Pizza: A Slice of Heaven, host of the podcast Special Sauce and creator of Serious Eats.