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In Memoriam – Seven Years Later – Claudia Laffranchi – Hollywood Foreign Correspondent
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We love and miss you, Claudia
Each year during Festival season we are reminded of our community’s great loss. This year we will once again be reminded of our BFF, as the third edition of “Locarno in Los Angeles” will be underway in Feb, 2020.
Claudia Laffranchi (IMDB – fb – tw), 49, Angelena-Ticinese, Foreign Correspondent, journalist and emcee of the International Film Festival in Locarno, was found dead in her Los Angeles apartment, in the early afternoon of May 22nd, 2012.
Claudia was in very close contact with her Homeland Ticino in southern Switzerland, where she regularly collaborated with local television stations and newspapers as their Los Angeles entertainment correspondent. For the past seven years she was also the multi-talented, multi-lingual live emcee and presenter at the Piazza Grande during the Locarno International Film Festival.
This year’s “Locarno in Los Angeles” event would have been SO much richer, had she been around… sniff…
Living in Hollywood and having extensive first-hand exposure to the World of cinema and television, enticed her to also produce and direct. Claudia was welcomed to the elite circle of influential journalists by winning the prestigious 53rd journalism award given by her peers of the Los Angeles Press Club.
She graced thousands of people with her presence, her beautiful smile, her wit and sense of humor – and was a great cheerleader for the #Angeleno-Swiss/Ticinese community and the driving force behind the creation of Helvetic.LA, who encouraged many creative projects and actively promoted young talent, and mingled among the great Hollywood Stars with her usual poise, class, style, elegance and grace.
We were so much looking forward to growing old together – either in LA, in Ticino, or enjoying the Best of both Worlds – but she left us way too early. Our hearts are aching and our sincere condolences go to her loved ones in Ticino.
Per Claudia’s Family wishes, her friends in Los Angeles had the chance to gather in a private ceremony Wednesday, to pay respects, celebrate her life, and say “arrivederci” to our dearest friend.
In Memory of Claudia: Festival del Film Locarno, Erich Maria Remarque & Paulette Goddard Foundation
Media:
(Italian Corriere del Ticino, tio.ch, Ticinonews, Giornale del Ticino, InfoInsubria, RSI-Quotidiano – video)
(German: Blick / GMX / Tages Anzeiger )
(English: LA Observer / ScreenDaily )
Previous Helvetic.LA stories of everyone’s best friend, our eternally beautiful Claudia
World-Class Smooth Jazz, made in Ticino!
Congratulations Fabio Mignola, Smooth Jazz Recording Artist from Minusio/Ticino, for your constant presence on LA’s Smooth Jazz Airwaves!
Fabio’s “Groovy Nights” is featured on iTunes’ “Smooth Jazz Affair” Podcast, Show #76.
Check out Fabio’s latest release on iTunes
Auguri, Fabio! You Made(it)in.LA+!
SCILLA – Acoustic & Unplugged – this Thursday April 7th, 9pm – at the Mezz Bar, Alexandria Hotel in Downtown LA
Swiss pop/rock singer/songwriter Scilla’s Pop-Rock music is influenced by Pink, No Doubt, The Runaways, Anouk, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga.
This talented young singer/songwriter from the Italian part of Switzerland (Ticino) studied Music in Milan, Italy and Music Business at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood – surely a good choice on getting the necessary tools on how to make it in the US. Last year Scilla participated at the Swiss final of the Eurovision Song Contest with her song “Barbie Doll”, which she co-wrote with guitarist Rafael Moreira (official, wiki, youtube).
If you would like to check out more of her work, visit www.scillamusic.com or better yet, stop by the Mezz Bar (yelp) on the 2nd floor of the Alexandria Hotel in Downtown LA, this coming THURSDAY, APRIL 7 @ 9pm, where Scilla will perform an unplugged, acoustic and soulful 45 min. set at the Mezz Bar in Los Angeles.
Congratulations, Scilla – You Made(it)in.LA+!
VENUE INFO:
Mezz Bar
Alexandria Hotel
501 South Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213) 622-6287
Mardi-Gras, Ticino-Style: Celebrate with Switzerland’s version of Reno 911, “I Frontaliers” (the Border Patrol)
So sorry, but google translate doesn’t (yet?) offer “auto-translate-subtitling”…
Want more? “I FRONTALIERS” (Border Patrol), Italian-Switzerland’s response to “Reno911”, has a YouTube Channel!
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