[2] Born in Ancona, Marche, Italy, Tana emigrated to Canada with his family in childhood.
[3] He studied literature at the Université du Québec à Montréal before joining the Association Coopérative des Productions Audio-Visuelles,[4] for whom he made a number of short films before releasing his debut feature film, Day by Day (Les grands enfants), in 1980.
His 1985 documentary film Caffè Italia, Montréal won the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma.
[7] Since Mr. Aiello, Tana has concentrated primarily on documentary films, most notably the Ricordato di noi project to recover lost footage of Montreal's Italian community newsmagazine television series Teledomenica.
[8] He has released two films in the Ricordato di noi series to date, Souviens-toi de nous in 2008 and Marguerita in 2015.