42nd MASI PRIZE - The Award Ceremony

On Friday the 27th of October, exponents of the theme ‘Roots and Perspectives’, as presented at the 42nd Masi Prize, have received their awards at the Pieve di San Giorgio in Valpolicella. The Masi Civiltà Veneta Prize went to the lexicographer Mario Cannella, to the “Water Nobel Prize” winner Andrea Rinaldo, and to the Stevanato Group, the historic Venetian company and leading producer of glass containers for medicines. The Masi International Civiltà del Vino Prize went to the Japanese manga authors Yuko and Shin Kibayashi; and the International Grosso d'Oro Veneziano Prize went to the Iranian film director Rakhshan Banietemad.