Tom Zaniello's Articles

London Labour Film Festival 2015: Holding a mirror to working life

17 Sep 2015, By Tom Zaniello Guest

It’s very exciting for me to be back in the London Labour Film Festival programme this year (24-26 Sep 2015), as I participated actively in the first festival back in 2012. The LLFF is one of over three-dozen labour film festivals around the world. Such festivals provide an essential service in bringing labour films to…

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London Film Festival 2014: Seven genres of labor film

23 Apr 2014, By Tom Zaniello Guest

The labor movement has a remarkable but often ignored position in film history. Labor films like The Grapes of Wrath and On the Waterfront are considered cinematic classics for good reason, as the former chronicles the great migration of farm workers during America’s Great Depression, while the latter exposes the deep tensions in the American…

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