“Capri Italian Rising Star Actor of the Year”. That is to say , rising star of the year . Andrea Arru collects a prestigious award at the 29th edition of Capri, Hollywood , the international festival dedicated to diversity that attracted 218 works from all over the world. The seventeen-year-old actor from Ploaghe was among the protagonists at the festival, which a couple of days ago assigned the Humanitarian Capri Award to the 2024 Italian box office hit "The Boy with the Pink Pants" by Margherita Ferri with Claudia Pandolfi, Samuele Carrino in the role of the protagonist and Andrea Arru who plays the bully who torments the boy.
The TV series “Di4ri” and “Storia di una famiglia perbene” and the films “Glassboy” and “Diabolik 3” have now established him as one of the emerging talents in Italy. Two months ago he was awarded in the “Generazione G” section at the Sedicicorto international festival in Forlì dedicated to short films. Andrea Arru was the protagonist of “101%” by Serena Corvaglia, a short produced by One More Pictures with Rai Cinema that won the sixth edition of the contest “La Realtà che 'NON' esiste”. In 2023 he was awarded the Rec Film Festival in Rimini, while in 2022 he received the Young Actor award at the Maratea International Film Festival.
