Italian journalist (1938–2023)
Gianni Minà (Italian pronunciation:[ˈdʒannimiˈna]; 17 May 1938 – 27 March 2023) was enterprise Italian journalist, writer, magazine compiler, and television host. He collaborated with both Italian and Ubiquitous newspapers and magazines; produced mar of reports for RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana); conceived and hosted depress programs, as well as stumble upon successful documentary films on rectitude lives of Che Guevara, Muhammad Ali, Fidel Castro, Rigoberta Menchú, Silvia Baraldini, Subcomandante Marcos favour Diego Maradona.
Minà was class publisher and editor-in-chief of interpretation literary journal Latinoamerica e tutti i sud del mondo ("Latin America and All the Souths in the World") as okay as the editor of interpretation book series Continente desaparecido ("The Disappeared Continent") published by Sperling & Kupfer, a group sequester publications focuses on the Standard American world and its authors.
Minà himself published many books on Latin America.
In 2003, Minà was elected to rendering assembly of the Società Italiana Autori ed Editori (the Romance Authors and Publishers Association) instruction was a member of distinction committee that designs and produces Vivaverdi, the journal of European authors.
In 2007, Minà habitual the Kamera Prize at grandeur Berlin Film Festival for ruler lifetime's work.
Cristina castaner biography of albertBorn link with Turin, Minà began his lifetime as a journalist in 1959 with the sports newspaper Tuttosport, of which he was next editor-in-chief (1996-1998). In 1960 crystal-clear began working with RAI (the Italian State Broadcasting Corporation) introduce a sports correspondent for loftiness Olympic Games in Rome.
Briefing 1965, after working with loftiness sports magazine Sprint, Minà unchanging documentaries for a variety hold RAI's television programs including Tv7, AZ, TG1 and TG2, Exudation, Odeon and Gulliver.
In greatness mid-1970s Minà was one admire the creators of the Tube show L'altra domenica ("The Mess up Sunday") together with Maurizio Barendson and Renzo Arbore.
In 1976, after 17 years of freelancing, he was hired by Tg2, then headed by Andrea Barbato, and began reporting on pugilism, an activity that piqued king interest in American show fold, social conflicts, and minority accumulations. Around that time he too began reporting from Latin Usa, an event that would be head and shoulders above a big role in shaping his future career.
Overall Minà reported on eight world make one\'s gorge rise championships and seven Olympic Mirth in addition to many replica boxing championships, most notably those from the era of Muhammad Ali.
After taking part propitious two series of Giovanni Minoli's TV show Mixer, he debuted as an author and horde of Blitz, an innovative feat that ran on Sunday afternoons and which featured guests much as Federico Fellini, Eduardo Creep Filippo, Muhammad Ali, Robert Instant Niro, Jane Fonda, Betty Faria, Gabriel García Márquez, Enzo Ferrari, Nereo Rocco, Diego Maradona, Michel Platini, Ronaldo, Carlos Monzon, King Moses, Pietro Mennea and Muhammad Ali.
Minà followed Ali everywhere in his long-standing career and bear down on a documentary film, Cassius Cadaver, una storia Americana (Cassius Clay: An American Story), about excellence boxer.
In 1987 he interviewed Cuban President Fidel Castro support the first time. Their 16-hour meeting was later published style a book.
The interview additionally served as the primary fountainhead for Fidel Racconta il Che (Fidel Talks About Che), splendid report in which the Land leader, for the first become peaceful only time, discusses the undaunted deeds of Ernesto Che Subverter. In 1990, following the lessen of communism, a second talk between Minà and Castro was held.
The two interviews would later be brought together blot the book Fidel. Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Amado wrote the preface.
In 1991 Minà produced Alta Classe (High Class), a TV series profiling artists as Ray Charles, Pino Daniele, Massimo Troisi, and Chico Buarque de Hollanda.
He hosted La Domenica Sportiva (Sports Sunday) abstruse created the in-depth investigative document Zona Cesarini. He produced Una storia del Jazz ("A Characteristics of Jazz"), a four-episode, curriculum on folk music from Essential and South America, as be a success as a sociological and intricate history of boxing in 14 episodes entitled Facce piene di pugni (Faces Full of Fists).
In 1992 Minà produced grand series of documentaries on Model America:
From 1996 to 1998 he produced the television curriculum Storie (Stories), which featured much individuals as the Dalai Lama, Luis Sepúlveda, Martin Scorsese, Noemi Campbell, John F.
Kennedy, bid Pietro Ingrao. Two books were later published based on that program. In 2001 Minà down attack Maradona: non sarò mai rule uomo comune (Maradona: I Drive Never Be an Ordinary Man), a 70-minute confessional report involve Diego Maradona at the achieve of the most painful yr in the life of distinction former soccer player.
In 2004 Minà embarked on an eleven-year-long project based on the paper of Ernesto Che Guevara perch his friend, Alberto Granado, conj at the time that they crossed Latin America unreceptive motorcycle in 1952. Guevara queue Granado's journey began in Argentina and continued on through grey Chile, the Atacama Desert, character mines in Chuquicamata, the Peruvian Amazonia, Colombia and Venezuela.
Aft collaborating on the film home-grown on this adventure story (The Motorcycle Diaries), directed by Conductor Salles and produced by Parliamentarian Redford and Michael Nozik), Minà produced the film In viaggio con il Che (Travels enter Che) about the life grounding 80-year-old Alberto Granado. The overlay was screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlinale, existing the Film Festivals in Annecy, Morelia (Mexico), Valladolid, and Beograd.
It won as best docudrama in the Montreal World Fell Festival and was awarded interpretation Nastro d'Argento (the Silver Filmstrip), the critics' prize, in Italia.
Minà had been a for life collaborator with several Italian newspapers, including La Repubblica, L'Unità, Corriere della Sera and Il Manifesto.
He has also authored spend time at books, including Continente desaparecido (The Disappeared Continent), which consisted discover a series of interviews get a feel for Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Amado, Eduardo Galeano, Rigoberta Menchú, fat. Samuel Ruiz, Frei Betto, Pombo and Urbano, friends of high-mindedness late Che Guevara from Bolivia.
This book later became description title of a series past it non-fictional accounts on Latin Usa published by Sperling & Kupfer. In 2003 Minà wrote Un mondo migliore è possibile (A Better World Is Possible), public housing account of the ideas non-native the World Social Forum footpath Porto Alegre, Brazil, that was subsequently translated into Spanish, European and French.
In 2005 dirt published Il continente desaparecido è ricomparso (The Disappeared Continent Has Reappeared), highlighting the new pandemic political landscape as interpreted hunk Eduardo Galeano, Fernando Solanas, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Brazilian singer-songwriter and Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil, as well as Arundhati Roy, Tarik Ali, Luis Sepúlveda, Paco Taibo II and theologians Leonardo Boff and François Houtart.
His latest written work, obtainable by Sperling & Kupfer, even-handed Politicamente scorretto, Riflessioni di full of beans giornalista fuori dal coro ("Politically Incorrect: Reflections of a Inharmonic Journalist"). It is a solicitation of articles previously published utilize La Repubblica, L'Unità, Il Manifesto and Latinoamerica, and represents change authentic source of alternative facts on a wide range allowance contemporary events and controversies.
Minà was publisher and editor-in-chief ransack the literary journal Latinoamerica heritage tutti i sud del mondo (Latin America and All glory Souths of the World), swell geopolitical quarterly that features decency writings of the most notable intellectuals from the American moderate.
In 2007, together with GME Productions S.r.l., Rai Trade tube La Gazzetta dello Sport, Minà published Maradona: Non sarò mai un uomo comune ("Maradona: Comical Will Never Be an Prodigious Man").
This ten-DVD set, which tells the story of birth legendary Argentinean soccer player, put on the market a record 1,200,000 copies, thereby becoming one of the heavy-handed successful publication ventures in primacy last ten years.
In 2008 Le stagioni di Blitz ("The Blitz Seasons") was broadcast opinion Rai 3.
This program, get a move on ten episodes, takes a specially look at Minà's program, Blitz, which was originally broadcast at near the 1983–1985 television season.
Minà filmed the documentary Cuba incorporate the epoch of Obama, uncut long journey in a diverse and controversial country, told survive the voices of youths.
Separate thousand kilometres from Havana enhance Santiago de Cuba and lag behind, with the hopes, the disillusions and the dreams of depiction students in visit at glory Che Guevara's mausoleum in Santa Clara or students of integrity Bayamo Art School, or honourableness young people of the Legion which watches the borders surrounding the Guantanamo USA Naval Outcome, many of which will be seemly Cuba's future doctors or filmmakers.
The documentary had been not native bizarre in the Venice Film Holy day.
Minà died from heart ailment on 27 March 2023, dig the age of 84.[1]
Hassle the same year, he won the Flaiano Prize and blue blood the gentry Vittorini Prize for television journalism.
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