American actor Mark Ruffalo, the two-time Oscar nominee who played the title role in the Marvel action blockbuster "Hulk in Avengers: Age of Ultron", is taking in the Amalfi Coast on Friday prior to his appearance on Saturday as one of the special guests at the Giffoni Film Festival, an international festival for children's films.
Ruffalo has been touring Italy for a few days together with his wife Sunrise Coigney, and has been enthusiastically posting praise on social media for the country of origin of his Calabrian paternal grandfather.
On Wednesday, Ruffalo posted a selfie from Sorrento on his Facebook page with the caption "In my motherland Italy. Feeling very much at home". After his stay at the 5-star Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria, he publicly thanked "Guido and the staff" of the hotel on his Facebook page, referring to it as "the original Grand Budapest Hotel".
On Saturday, Ruffalo will meet the film festival's jury, unique in that it is made up of young people selected in online drawings, and will receive the festival's Giffoni Experience Award.
Also on Saturday, the festival will host Fabio De Luigi, an Italian comedian who directed the film Tiramisù, and one of the film's actors, Angelo Duro, famous for his role in the Italian satirical TV show Le Iene.
De Luigi and Duro will also co-host "Trio Medusa Late Show", which will be filmed each night of the festival and is set to be broadcast on Italian TV for six consecutive evenings starting August 18.
On Saturday, the festival's special event will be a showing of Oscar winner Pete Docter's Pixar animated film Inside Out, which takes viewers into the human mind of a young girl, personified by five emotions.
The film sparked a web contest in Italy that will be "coached" by the five young Italian actors who provided voices for the film's characters, two of whom will be at Giffoni for the screening of Inside Out.
Lodovica Comello, who voices "Joy" in the film, and Tess Masazza, the voice of "Disgust", are scheduled to walk the film festival's Blue Carpet on Saturday.
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