Asia Argento to Be Honored 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 recognizing creative pioneers. Argento will receive the prize on August 13 in the festival's open-air Piazza Grande venue in the Swiss lakeside town, where she'll also present her latest film, Jorge Thielen Armand's "Death Has No." The Locarno festival, held annually, celebrates filmmakers who have shaped cinema through bold and innovative work across acting and directing.