Hong Kong star Jackie Chan is to be honoured with the Pardo Alla Carriera award on the 78th Locarno Movie Pageant (August 6-16).
The award will recognise Chan’s profession up to now, which spans greater than 150 movies over six a long time as an actor, martial arts stuntman and filmmaker. He’ll obtain the honour on August 9 on Locarno’s Piazza Grande.
Chan will even introduce 1983 action-comedy Challenge A and 1985 traditional Police Story, which he each directed and starred in, on the pageant. He will even participate in an on-stage dialog that’s open to the general public on August 10.
After starting as a toddler actor within the Sixties, Chan discovered main success in 1978 with Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow and Drunken Grasp, and over the subsequent decade, his mix of kung-fu comedy with audacious stunts was a dependable box-office draw for legendary Hong Kong studio Golden Harvest.
By the Nineteen Nineties, Chan was Asia’s highest grossing motion star and he made his break into Hollywood with 1996 buddy comedy Rush Hour. His work as a director ranges from Police Story and Armour Of God to 2012’s Chinese language Zodiac. He’ll subsequent be seen in Karate Child: Legends, Sony’s subsequent chapter within the martial arts franchise, that’s set for launch on the finish of Might.
Locarno creative director Giona A. Nazzaro mentioned: “Jackie Chan is each a key determine in up to date Asian cinema and one whose affect has rewritten the principles of Hollywood cinema. Chan has frequently reinvented martial arts cinema and… has absorbed the teachings of Buster Keaton and early cinema as his personal, creating masterpieces which have captivated audiences world wide.”