Director/Writer: Vincent Sassone
with animated sequences by Jeff Drew
starring: Vincent Pastore,  Frank Vincent,  Patti D’Arbanville
Producers: James L. Simon,  Patricia Zagarella & Van Papadopoulo
Executive Producers: Frederic B. Vogel & Gary Kauffman

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When two feuding pizza parlor owners in Yonkers, NY square off in a decisive pizza contest, their star-crossed kids learn that all’s fair in love and pizza.

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Vincent Sassone (Writer, Director)

Vincent Sassone studied filmmaking at American University as an extension of the theatre arts curriculum at Catholic University in Washington DC.   He earned his BFA in theatre arts from CUA. 

Sassone's award winning 36 minute short film, Italian Lessons, screened on Northwest Airlines and in numerous festivals around the US.  He will direct a feature length version of Italian Lessons starring Maria Grazia Cucinotta (from the Oscar®-winning Italian film Il Postino) later this year.   Sassone’s feature screenplay for Italian Lessons was chosen from among 300 scripts as the winner of the $2,500 GFI Filmmaker's Grant.  His first screenplay, a romantic comedy thriller entitled Stagestruck, was chosen a finalist in both The Writer's Network and The Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship competitions.  His other screenplays include The Great Carusos, Tigers, Hot Property and The Summer of Love.  

Sassone's plays The Last Episode, Truth T’ Tell and Tigers have been staged in New York City and Los Angeles.  His comedic revue, West Side Stories, ran for eight months at Off-Broadway’s Theatre Ariel.  He has staged many plays, most recently a production of Tigers for the 2001 NY International Fringe Festival.  Other directing highlights include assisting Cirque du Soleil director Franco Dragone in the development of Dragone's rock opera, Hope and staging Mark Lipitz and Rick Crom's popular Off-Broadway musical, Space Trek. 

Sassone has worked as an actor in New York and Los Angeles.  He is currently artistic director of Spectrum Stage, a not-for-profit theatre company in NYC.