Gino Canella is a researcher, educator, and documentary filmmaker. He is currently associate professor of journalism in the School of Communication at Emerson College.

His research and creative works explore social movements, visual culture, and labor. Gino produces documentary media with grassroots organizers and studies how media and technology affect the social and material relationships among people fighting for justice.

Gino has traveled the world as a researcher and filmmaker. In 2012, he filmed, wrote, and edited his first documentary film, The British Pub, Inc., which aired on public television in the U.K. In December 2016, he co-directed a documentary in Dakar, Senegal, about a community theater troupe that is blending performance art and religious expression. The film was selected for screening at the 2019 Ethnografilm Festival in Paris, France. In 2018, he co-produced and wrote Radical Labor, a documentary about the fights for workers’ rights and racial justice. It was published online by Roar Magazine in March 2018. Activist Media, his book based on this work, was published in May 2022 by Rutgers University Press. His latest documentary, Front Line (2021), featured the historic nursing strike at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was published on The Real News Network and has screened at regional and international film festivals.

He earned a Master of Arts in Media Studies at Temple University ('13), and a Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder ('18).