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Gino Canella is a researcher, educator and documentary filmmaker. He is currently an associate professor of journalism at Emerson College.
His research and creative works explore social movements, visual culture and labor. He studies how the political economy of media affects the social and material relationships among grassroots activists.
In 2012, he filmed, wrote and edited his first documentary, The British Pub, Inc., which aired on public television in the U.K. In December 2016, he co-directed the documentary Bamba, The Taste of Knowledge, about a community theater troupe in Dakar, Senegal that blends performance art and religious expression. It was selected for screening at the 2019 Ethnografilm Festival in Paris, France. In 2018, he co-directed and wrote Radical Labor, a documentary about the fight for workers’ rights and racial justice in Colorado. It was distributed online by Roar Magazine.
His book Activist Media(2022) reviewed how activists are using media to build broad-based coalitions for justice and amplify their vision for more equitable societies.
His latest film, Front Line(2021), featured the historic nursing strike at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was distributed by The Real News Network and has screened at regional and international film festivals.
He is currently working on a book about the relationship between culture and the conditions of the American labor movement.
