{"id":71772,"date":"2026-05-15T11:41:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=71772"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:13:08","slug":"watch-first-time-film-festival-hits-sheffield-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/watch-first-time-film-festival-hits-sheffield-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Working Class Film Festival hits Sheffield cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Working Class Film Festival made its debut in Sheffield\u2019s Showroom Cinema this past weekend, and it&#8217;s been a wild success.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elle Short, organiser of the event, managed to bring over 36 films made by working class producers to the big screen, both local and international stories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elle, said: \u201cIt started off really because of the news articles that have been published that the number of working class people working in the film and television industry had dropped to a decade low of 8%.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is compared to a vastly different 60% coming from middle class backgrounds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Films on global conflicts were also shown, such as Palestine and Ukraine, and international viewers from as far as Canada attended the festival.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"working class film festival\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hMVe0xLVn3g?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Working Class Film Festival has made its debut in Sheffield\u2019s Showroom Cinema this past weekend, and it&#8217;s been a wild success.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":817,"featured_media":71777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,43,21,103],"tags":[1309,1311],"class_list":["post-71772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-culture","category-news","category-watch","tag-cinema","tag-films"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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