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LOS ANGELES ITALIA MARKS MIDPOINT WITH AWARDS PRESENTATION HONORING SYLVESTER STALLONE, TREAT WILLIAMS, STEVEN ZAILLIAN AND E! ENTERTAINMENT’S GIULIANA RANCIC LOS ANGELES, 21/02/08 – The 3rd Annual Los Angeles, Italia –Film, Fashion and Art Fest bestowed an array of honors Wednesday night on an all star line including legendary Italian American superstar Sylvester Stallone (Italian Legend Award), celebrated American Gangster screenwriter Steve Zaillian (Friend of Italy Award) actor Treat Williams (Friend of Italy Award) and E! News anchor Giuliana Rancic (Outstanding Italian-American Award). Williams’ film The Hideout (Il Nascondiglio), also starring Yvonne Scio and Burt Young, received its U.S. premier immediately after last night’s award ceremony. Los Angeles Italy – The Italian Film & Fashion Fest is chaired by Oscar winning screenwriter and director Bobby Moresco (Crash.) The celebration, which began on Sunday, February 17th , has drawn a wide array of Hollywood players including actors Lindsay Lohan, Joan Collins, F. Murray Abraham and Francesco Quinn, writer/producer/director Paul Haggis (In The Valley of Elah), producers Mark Canton (Spiderwick Chronicles), Lawrence Bender (An Inconvenient Truth), the Italian artists’ delegation of Franco Nero, Citto Maselli, Lina Sastri, Luois Nero, Enrico Loverso, Stefano Calvagna, Brunella De Nardo, Maurizio Aiello, Sofia Vergara and Francesco Apolloni, among others On Friday, February 23rd tributes will take place honoring nominees and past winners Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo (Best Art Direction and Set Decoration- Sweeney Todd;) Dario Marianelli, (2008 Golden Globe winner, and Best Original Score nominee - Atonement), Marco Beltrami (Best score nominee - 3:10 to Yuma.) and Andrea Jublin, author of Il Supplente (nominated for Best Live Action Short). Los Angeles, Italia - Film, Fashion and Art Fest features special screenings of contemporary works and cult creations from Italian and Italian American most popular auteurs, meetings among luminaries of the Italian and foreign cinema and conferences with students from the American Film Institute and the USC School of Cinema-Television; It is produced in collaboration with Los Angeles’ CIM Group (the US holding company that owns Mann’s Chinese Theatre and the Kodak Theatre), with the support of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Embassy in the United States, the Lazio Region’s Assessor for the Small and Medium Enterprises, and with the support of Cinecittà Holding and the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles.