Washington DC, June 16 -- The Locarno Film Festival will honour the Italian actress and director Asia Argento with its lifetime achievement award dedicated to creative pioneers, reported Variety.

According to the outlet, she will present the most recent film in which she stars, Jorge Thielen Armand's 'Death Has No Master,' at the Swiss fest dedicated to indie cinema and will receive the award on August 13 in the lakeside town's 6,500-seat outdoor Piazza Grande venue.

Argento made her onscreen debut as a child in Lamberto Bava's 'Demons 2' (1986) and subsequently appeared in Nanni Moretti's 'Palombella rossa' (1989); hit comic Carlo Verdone's 'Perdiamoci di vista' (1994); and Italy-based Peter Del Monte's 'Traveling Companion' (1996).

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