Platform films

Platform Films are Chris Reeves, Ann Diego, Christine Tongue and Norman Thomas.

Platform emerged in 1982, inspired by the legacy of Cinema Action, a London-based collective whose films reflected the socialist ideas and trade union militancy of the 1960s and 1970s.

Platform continues the tradition of left-wing filmmaking begun in the 1930s by the Film and Photo League and the Progressive Film Institute, with the goal of raising political and social awareness and inspiring change.

As well as making its own documentaries, and in the past making programmes for Channel 4 and the BBC, Platform also curates a major archive of left-wing films with titles dating back to the 1930s, on topics such as war, trade unions, housing and Ireland.

Major documentaries in Platform’s library include “Wapping The Workers Story”, “Not In My Name” (about the campaign to stop the attack on Iraq), and “Who Killed Mark Faulkner” (about homelessness in London). More recent productions are “Oh Jeremy Corbyn – The Big Lie” (2023) about the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn and “Censoring Palestine” (2025) about the suppression of the truth about the Gaza genocide.

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Platform Films at MAW25:
Censoring Palestine Screening + Q&A
Thursday, 2nd October, 7-9 pm
The Auxiliary Project Space

Get free tickets on the Middlesbrough Art Week Eventbrite page here.