By Roberto Natalini

The proud son of Italian immigrants from the Friuli region, Lido Cantarutti was born in Santa Cruz, California, where he and his brother grew up helping their father harvest Brussels sprouts along the central coast of California. Lido relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area and eventually attended the University of California at Berkeley. It was there that he received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Romance Languages.

Besides a long and successful career in the field of human resources, Lido has also been teaching college-level Italian language classes for more than a quarter of a century, and has twice been honored with a knighthood by the President of the Republic of Italy. As if that weren't enough, Cavaliere Ufficiale Lido Cantarutti is also the founder and director of the Italian Film Festival in Marin County, which is now in its thirty-seventh year.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano