Is film an engine for social change?

The Left has always used the arts as a potent ideological weapon, highlighting and agitating for social change. Film has been critical to that, pointing to the worst injustices in society and reflecting back onto us the reality faced by the most disadvantaged around us.

On Monday we start a series of free monthly film screenings at Birkbeck Student Bar, each film a rallying call for a social issue affecting us in 2010. In true Fabian style we’ll point to a cause still worth fight for.

This month we start with racism and the rise of the BNP by screening Shane Meadow’s sobering This is England: a stunning, brutal look at 1983 Britain, during the conservative Margaret Thatcher regime, the growth of racism and the controversial Falklands War.

Introducing the movie will be Hope Not Hate’s Sam Tarry, also National Chair of Young Labour, on the battle to stop the BNP gaining their first parliamentary seat in Barking.

So bring your firends, bring popcorn and get ready to be affected.

For more details click here or email me: vrampulla@youngfabians.org.uk