Gianni Minà and the dream of sharing the archive with young people

Gianni Minà had thought of everything, he loved his work so much that he wanted to protect it in order to pass it on, making it enjoyed by those who had only remotely heard of certain characters and a certain era.

What will remain of the mythical encounters with Subcommander Marcos, Mohammed Ali, Fidel Castro, the Dalai Lama, Diego Maradona and that diary much envied by Massimo Troisi, that exceptional list of numbers in which you also found that of Jesus?

"Nothing will be lost, just as he himself wanted up to the end: he worked until very recently to prepare everything", Andrea Conforti, vice president of the Gianni Minà Foundation, which was just born last January, told ANSA.

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"His, you know, was an immense video and audio archive, thousands of hours, he had over 100 hours of unpublished material and his dream was to transfer everything digitally to make it accessible, especially to young people", he continues.

And for this reason last June he launched a fundraising campaign on the Produzioni dal Basso platform to implement the ambitious Minà's Rewind project, "surprised and then gratified - continues Conforti - by the great response of ordinary people to give money".

In recent times, with respect to this project of yours, has he been embittered with Rai, which also has 1400 'objects' in Rai Teche?

"Let's not talk about this, let's say that he wanted to protect this heritage for the future, it was his legacy to the young and his dream and us - he continues with the journalist's widow next to him,

Conforti announces that "at the end of May his latest book, Fame di storie, will be released posthumously, and there will be a photographic exhibition on all that his professional life has been. Both will see their debut in Naples, the city that was in his great good heart, who had made him an honorary citizen".

The idea of ​​this digital archive project was born 7-8 years ago, "initially - he says - Gianni was wary of the web, he certainly belonged to another generation, then he saw that if you use online platforms well, they can perform a great cultural function, so he put together a staff of six people and launched himself into the project which then became a Foundation in January with him as honorary president".

Minà and social networks: a relationship of affection.

"He used Facebook to post articles,

on Instagram he personally chose the photos from his archive and dictated the posts and then had the comments read.

Hers is an exceptional case: no haters, no poison in her social networks but only a lot of love.

135,000 followers on Facebook, 58,000 on Instagram in less than a year.

People, those of his era who grew up with his interviews and programs, those who only heard of him, knew who he was: a great journalist, certainly, with immense curiosity, but also a man with a big heart, always on the side of the weakest". Was it your choice of private funerals? "Yes, but whoever wants to pay their last respects will be welcome tomorrow at the Campidoglio in the funeral home".

his is an exceptional case: no haters, no poison in his social networks but only a lot of love.

135,000 followers on Facebook, 58,000 on Instagram in less than a year.

People, those of his era who grew up with his interviews and programs, those who only heard of him, knew who he was: a great journalist, certainly, with immense curiosity, but also a man with a big heart, always on the side of the weakest". Was it your choice of private funerals? "Yes, but whoever wants to pay their last respects will be welcome tomorrow at the Campidoglio in the funeral home".

his is an exceptional case: no haters, no poison in his social networks but only a lot of love.

135,000 followers on Facebook, 58,000 on Instagram in less than a year.

People, those of his era who grew up with his interviews and programs, those who only heard of him, knew who he was: a great journalist, certainly, with immense curiosity, but also a man with a big heart, always on the side of the weakest". Was it your choice of private funerals? "Yes, but whoever wants to pay their last respects will be welcome tomorrow at the Campidoglio in the funeral home".