Gianni Minà

One of the most esteemed RAI correspondents for over fifty years, Gianni paints the stories of North and South America's social realities and customs using moving pictures. He produced and directed a History of Jazz, History of Central and South American Music, as well as History of Boxing, all seminal anthologies. In 1981, Italy's President Pertini awarded Gianni the Saint Vincent Prize for the best TV journalist of the year. From 1981 to 1984 he was the author and host of Blitz, a very successful Italian TV show, which hosted one-thousand-four-hundred guests from all over the world. Gianni interviewed icons like Federico Fellini, Muhammad Ali, Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Gabriel García Márquez, Enzo Ferrari and Eduardo De Filippo to name a few. In 1987, Minà produced a historic documentary, interviewing Cuba's President Fidel Castro for 16 hours. Three years later, in 1990, he interviewed Fidel again for a report on the end of communism. He later published two books based on these re