Oscar winning actress Mira Sorvino told the Los Angeles Italia film festival at the Italian Institute of Culture in California Friday night that her dream is to be Neapolitan like her father and actor Paul and her grandfather Fortunato who lived in Naples' Vomero quarter.

"I want to be Italian, or rather Neapolitan, in homage to my father Paul and my grandfather Fortunato Sorvino, who lived in Vomero" she said while awarding singer and actor Francesco Merola (son of Neapolitan great Mario) as part of the 20th Los Angeles Italia festival.