80-year-old Italian director Antonio Capuano of Dark Love fame and 65-year-old American actress Marcia Gay Harden of Pollock and Mystic River fame are to get career achievement awards at this year's Ischia Film Festival from June 28 to July 5.
Capuano, Harden, Rashid Masharawi, Luca Zingaretti, Anna Ammirati, Francesca Comencini and Luca Bigazzi, Toni Servillo and Roberto Andò, Marco Giallini, and Celeste Dalla Porta make up a star-studded program as just some of the guests of the 23rd edition of the fest, directed by Michelangelo Messina, which will once again take place at the Castello Aragonese on the iconic Bay of Naples island.
It will kick off on Saturday, June 28 with a tribute to director Capuano, who will get the Lifetime Achievement Award and gang rape drama Dark LOve (L'amore buio, 2010) will be screened.
The following day, the festival will host two great figures of international cinema: Harden, an Oscar-winning actress for Pollock who will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award and will be celebrated with the screening of Miller's Crossing by the Coen brothers.
Alongside her, the Palestinian director, screenwriter and film producer Rashid Masharawi - born and raised in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip - will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.
