This Is Not Hollywood on Disney+ UK
November 20, 2024

Disney+ Original series This Is Not Hollywood is now available to stream exclusively on Disney+ in the UK & Ireland, and will be available on Hulu in the US on December 11th 2024.
The four-part Italian Original series premiered at the 19th edition of Rome Film Fest in October. Following its release, it has become the biggest General Entertainment series launch on Disney+ in Italy, based on views in its first seven days.
The series chronicles a true crime involving the death of a young woman named Sarah Scazzi and the massive media impact that characterised it. The show comprises of four sixty-minute episodes, each giving the point of view of one of the story’s main protagonists (Sarah, her cousin Sabrina, her uncle Michele and her aunt Cosima) and offers a multi-voiced report of one of Italy’s most notorious crime cases.
It’s August 2010 and Sarah, a 15-year-old girl goes missing in Avetrana, a small town scorched by the sun in the Apulian outskirts, close to the sea. The whole town grows concerned, her cousin Sabrina above all. She was waiting for Sarah in her house in Via Deledda to go to the beach that very afternoon. It looks like an innocent escape from home, but it’s not. While everyone is looking for her, Sarah has already been swallowed by darkness and her body is found at the bottom of a well.
Directed by Pippo Mezzapesa, who also wrote the screenplay along with Antonella W. Gaeta, Davide Serino, Carmine Gazzanni and Flavia Piccinni, the series is produced by Matteo Rovere, a Groenlandia production.
This Is Not Hollywood stars Vanessa Scalera as Cosima Misseri, Paolo De Vita as Michele Misseri, Giulia Perulli as Sabrina Misseri, Imma Villa as Concetta Serrano, Federica Pala as Sarah Scazzi, Anna Ferzetti in the role of the journalist Daniela, with Giancarlo Commare as Ivano, Geno Diana as Giove and Antonio Gerardi as Maresciallo Persichella.
The series is based on Sarah la ragazza di Avetrana book, written by Carmine Gazzanni and Flavia Piccinni and published by Fandango Libri.