Telegraph Film, 20 May 2015 • 10:41am
The producer of a documentary about Hollywood paedophile rings has had to personally bankroll the film’s release after no major American distribution company would touch it.
Gabe Hoffman, the executive producer of An Open Secret, told an audience at the Cannes Film Festival last night that he was self-financing the film’s release in 20 US cities as part of a “grassroots groundswell” against the industry’s reluctance to confront the issues addressed within the film.
The documentary, directed by Amy Berg, concerns a gang of paedophiles operating in Hollywood in the late Nineties, and alleges that a major child star was abused by a friend of X-Men director Bryan Singer.
It also describes parties held at an Encino mansion owned by the former online video entrepreneur and convicted sex offender Marc Collins-Rector, where underage boys were plied with alcohol and drugs and ordered to sit naked in a hot tub with major film industry figures.
Gabe Hoffman, the executive producer of An Open Secret, told an audience at the Cannes Film Festival last night that he was self-financing the film’s release in 20 US cities as part of a “grassroots groundswell” against the industry’s reluctance to confront the issues addressed within the film.
The documentary, directed by Amy Berg, concerns a gang of paedophiles operating in Hollywood in the late Nineties, and alleges that a major child star was abused by a friend of X-Men director Bryan Singer.
It also describes parties held at an Encino mansion owned by the former online video entrepreneur and convicted sex offender Marc Collins-Rector, where underage boys were plied with alcohol and drugs and ordered to sit naked in a hot tub with major film industry figures.