Gino Canella

Dr. Gino Canella is a researcher, educator, and documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on social movements, visual culture, and labor. He produces documentary media with grassroots organizers and studies how the political economy of media affects the production and circulation of information.

In 2012, he filmed, wrote, and edited his first documentary film, The British Pub, Inc., which aired on public television in the UK. In 2016, he co-directed Bamba, The Taste of Knowledge, a documentary about a community theater troupe in Dakar, Senegal, mixing performance art and religious expression. It was selected for screening at the 2019 Ethnografilm Festival in Paris. Dr. Canella directed Radical Labor, a documentary about the fight for workers’ rights and racial justice in Colorado, in 2018. It was published on Roar online magazine. His latest film, Front Line, followed the historic nurses strike at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass. It was distributed by The Real News Network and has screened at regional and international film festivals.

He is the editor of Raising Class Consciousness (2025), a collection about the relationship between labor, communication, and technology. His current book, Cracking the Facade, examines the ideological inconsistencies of capitalism, arguing that the loss of shared meaning is degrading work and creating new opportunities to redefine the working class.