ABOUT NANNI MORETTI
Italian director whose work included Dear Diary and The Son's Room, the latter of which won the Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
He was a water polo player who broke into the film business as a producer.
He was a noted leftist who organized street protests against the government of Silvio Berlusconi .
His brother was literary scholar Franco Moretti.
He and Days of Heaven director Terrence Malick both won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival.
