Hong Kong and global film icon Jackie Chan will attend Switzerland's 78th Lockno Film Festival this summer to receive the prestigious Pardo Alla Carriera or the Professional Leopard Award, organisers unveiled on Tuesday.

The festival will award Chen the honors on Saturday night, August 9, and the actor will also introduce his films project (1983) and Police Story (1985), in both cases, he was a star and director as part of his career tribute.

Festival audiences will also have the opportunity to see and hear Chan during a public dialogue event on Sunday, August 10.

Giona A. Nazzaro, artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival, stressed: "Director, producer, actor, screenwriter, screenwriter, choreographer, singer, athlete, athlete and Daredevil Stuntman, Jackie Chan is an important figure in contemporary Asian films as a stuntman for Hu Jin's masterpieces. ZenChen has been reinventing martial arts cinemas and surpassing it. ”

Nazzaro continues: “He is a pure comic talent, he has absorbed lessons from Buster Keaton and early films, created masterpieces that have attracted audiences around the world. His classic musicals deserve the sensitivity to shaping poems that have never been seen in human action.”

His conclusion is: "In the movie theater, there is one before Jackie Chan and Jackie Chan."

Locarno called Chan "an Asian superstar, filmmaker master and Hollywood mid-stream tay dog ​​because the film bridged the gap between the East and the West," he added that he "has already been one of the world's most well-known faces in nearly 60 years.

After starting as a child actor in the 1960s, Chen achieved success in 1978 Snake in the shadow of an eagle and Drunk Master. Over the next decade, his “kung fu comedy blended together and was a solid box office that attracted him for the legendary Hong Kong studio Golden Harvest, whose bold stunts and easy-going charm attracted fans,” Locarno said.

By the 1990s, Chan was Asia's highest action star and subsequently had a career in Hollywood. “Friends Comedy Peak hours (1998) will describe Chan's position as a global superstar, unlike anyone before him. ” Locknow said.

Chan also works behind the camera Police Story and God's Armor (1986).

Pardo Alla Carriera is supported by Ascona-Locarno Tourism, a destination partner at Locarno Festival.

Previous winners include Francesco Rosi, Bruno Ganz, Claudia Cardinale, Johnnie TO, Harry Belafonte, Mario Adorf, Jane Birkin, Costa-Gavras, Tsai Ming-long, and last year, Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan.

The 78th Locknow Music Festival will be held from August 6 to 16.