Ezio Greggio And Marina Suma They will receive the Massimo Troisi 2025 award during the Salina Marefestival, now in its XIV edition. The event, which will take place From Friday 13 to Sunday 15 June, He celebrates the memory of the late Neapolitan artist every year, who disappeared in 1994, in the places that were the last set of the film Il Postino.
The two actors will be the protagonists on the stage of the squares of Santa Marina Salina and Malfa, the municipalities of the island that host the event.
The Festival is promoted by the Messina journalists Massimiliano Cavaleri (artistic director), Patrizia Casale And Francesco Cappello and will be conducted by the journalist Nadia La Malfa who will guide the public on a journey through the careers of the winners, with videos and photographs edited by the author Giovanni Pontillo.
Ezio Greggioalready winner of the Troisi Prize a few years ago, he will receive recognition for the Teatro section: his recent show One Man Show “A life on the screen“, In which he tells anecdotes and memories of many moments between TV, big screen and stages, he recorded the sold out in many dates.
Marina Sumain addition to being awarded the Career awardhe will present his book “At the beginning I dreamed of flying”, A graphic novel Written in collaboration with Marco Sciame and published this year by Edizioni Frascati & Serradifalco
They will enrich the parterre of the event that will also see among the guests Massimo Boldialready announced in recent weeks e Maria Grazia Cucinottainterpreter of “Il Postino” and godmother of the event from the first edition other names that will be revealed in the presentation press conference scheduled for Wednesday 4 June in Palermo.
The Troisi Prize is a picture-sculpture that depicts the historic poster of the film, made by the Maestro di Resine Antonello Arena: for the section “Emerging artists 2025“He was assigned to the Italian-Egyptian apneist Luca Sherifthat in the documentary “Fragile“, For the direction and photography of Simone Piccolo, tells the acceptance of a serious chronic autoimmune disease of the intestine, the ulcerative rectocolitis, who forced him years ago to stop underwater activities and how over time he managed to transform it from a weakness to a significant opportunity for growth. Thanks to the inner job, told in the film, for five years he has no longer used drugs and the disease is in remission.