Asia Argento to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Locarno Film Festival
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The Locarno Film Festival will honor Italian actress and director Asia Argento with a lifetime achievement award dedicated to creative pioneers. She will receive the award on August 13 at the festival's outdoor Piazza Grande venue in Locarno, Switzerland, where she will also present her latest film, Jorge Thielen Armand's "Death Has No Master." Argento, daughter of horror director Dario Argento, began her onscreen career as a child in "Demons 2" (1986) and has appeared in films by Nanni Moretti and Carlo Verdone.
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She will receive the award on Aug. 13 in the Swiss lakeside town's 8,000 seat outdoor Piazza Grande venue.
Argento, who is Italian horror maestro Dario Argento's daughter, made her onscreen debut as a child in Lamberto Bava's 'Demons 2' (1986).
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