Gianni Minà

Gianni Minà (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒanni miˈna]; Turin, 17 May 1938) is an Italian journalist, writer and television host. He has collaborated with both Italian and foreign newspapers and magazines; produced hundreds of reports for the RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana); designed and presented television programs, as well as produced successful documentary films on the lives of Che Guevara, Muhammad Ali, Fidel Castro, Rigoberta Menchú, Silvia Baraldini, Subcomandante Marcos, and Diego Maradona.

Minà is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the literary journal Latinoamerica e tutti i sud del mondo ("Latin America and All the Souths of the World") as well as director of the book series Continente desaparecido ("The Disappeared Continent") published by Sperling & Kupfer. This series focuses on the Latin American world and its authors. Minà has published many books on Latin America.

In 2003 Minà was elected to the assembly of the Società Italiana Autori ed Editori (the Italian Authors and Publishers Association) and was a member of the committee that designs and produces Vivaverdi, the journal of Italian authors.

In 2007 Minà received the Kamera Prize at the Berlin Film Festival for his lifetime's work. This is the most prestigious award given to documentarists.

Born in Turin, Minà began his career as a journalist in 1959 with the sport newspaper Tuttosport, of which he was later editor-in-chief (1996- 1998). In 1960 he began working with the RAI (the Italian state Broadcasting Corporation) as a sports collaborator for the Olympic Games in Rome. In 1965, after working with the sports magazine Sprint, edited by Maurizio Barendson, Minà wrote reports and made documentaries for a variety of television programs including Tv7, AZ, the Special Services of TG, Dribbling, Odeon and Gulliver.

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