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Taking the film industry into the future
On Tuesday January 21 we kicked off the year with the first Dutch Green Filmmaking Project workshop of 2014 that we organized in Hub Impact Amsterdam and Het Ketelhuis. About 70 Dutch Kort! and ONS (One Night Stand) film professionals got inspired by sustainability experts such as Klaas van Egmond (Dutch professor of Geosciences at University Utrecht), Carlijn Lindemulder (Sustainability Director ID&T) and Nicola Knoch (CSR advisor ‘Buddy’) who shared their vision on how to produce films in greener ways.
Picture: Michael Vervuurt
Chai Locher, project manager at the Green Filmmaking Project: “at the start of the Green Filmmaking Project in 2012 we gathered around twenty people in a room. We are very excited that we need to move to larger venues at this point. It is our aim to ensure that producers and filmmakers can create room for their sustainable ideals in their daily work.”
We are really looking forward to the innovative steps of this next generation of filmmakers – the future of the Dutch Film Industry is looking green & great!
2014 Green Film Making Competition – Student edition
Calling all future and student filmmakers! For our upcoming 3rd edition of our ‘Green Film Making Competition’, we have chosen to work with students! With this 2014 edition, we are challenging young filmmakers across Europe to produce their films as sustainably as possible, while coming up with new and innovative sustainable solutions for onset: lighting, art departments, transportation, energy consumption, craft services, and over all production process. Why? Because fossil fuel intensive processes no longer make sense. They are bad for business, and the environment. The winning teams will: become industry pioneers, present their project, findings, and solutions during the Netherlands Film Festival 2014 (Utrecht, The Netherlands), and will also receive a monetary prize. Find out more:
History of the Green Film Making Competition
The Green Film Making Competition is an initiative that challenges film makers to rethink their production processes. So far there have been two editions of the competition: both with Dutch professional film makers. For our upcoming third edition in 2014, we are proud to announce that we have chosen to work with students!
What’s in it for you?
We believe that student innovation is an integral part of this important industry shift, and we believe that you can become a prominent part of the sustainable film movement. In addition to becoming a pioneer within the Green Film Making Movement, you will be an ahead-of-the curve innovator in your own field with opened doors and opportunities because of it.
The Green Film Making Project encourages you to do some research, by way of immersing in, and getting acquainted with the current industry practices and professionals. You could interview working film professionals from each department (director of photography, producers, first ad’s or art directors) who are already working sustainably, or you could dive into other industries to derive new findings for you and your team.
But what good is a competition without a prize?
The student teams that come up with the most effective and innovative sustainable solution(s) for: lighting, art departments, technical departments, energy consumption, and overall production process will also be awarded a monetary prize.
1st prize € 2.500
2nd prize € 1.500
3rd prize € 1.000
The winning teams will also present their project, findings, and solutions during the Netherlands Film Festival 2014 (Utrecht, The Netherlands).
How can you participate?
The competition begins in February 2014 and will run until June 2014. Be in touch with us no later than Friday February 28, 2014 if you would like to participate!
To enter, you must:
– generate a team of at least three current students
– send to us your film’s production master plan of two pages (max); in which you describe how you are going to research green film making as well as how you will influence the film’s production to make it sustainable
– send to us a short preview of what you will be presenting to the competition jury in June.
-get in touch with us via: greenfilmmaking@strawberryearth.com by February 28, 2014; we will follow-up by sending to you the competition guidelines and rules
Let the games begin, and good luck!
Emellie O’Brien (USA)
The film industry has been sent a sublime guardian from the sustainability heavens, meet Emellie O’Brien: Earth Angel. She is bringing sustainability to the big screen in a major way, as she works her way through eco managing top-tier sets across NYC, and to the mantra of “Making Movies Without Making a Mess”. read more…
The Golden Globe Awards have gone glamourously vegan!
We are ecstatic to hear that this past weekend’s ‘71st Annual Golden Globe Awards‘ united environmentally conscious appetites with the glamour of the red carpet. In addition to the vegetarian likes of nominees Jessica Chastain, Joaquin Phoenix, and eco-conscious award winner Leonardo DiCaprio, the main menu served to attendees was abundant with meat-free appetizers and locally sourced ingredients. Like this first course: “grilled eggplant with sun-dried tomatoes, pine nuts and hummus on seared tomato; a mini sweet pepper with feta cheese, pomegranate, herbs and California olive oil on grilled pita; and a grilled artichoke on multigrain tabbouleh and tahini”, yummy! As stated by Golden Globe sous chef Chris O’Connell, “The days of [dull] boiled vegetables and steamed spinach are over”. We want to see even greater concious menus flourishing within the film festival and award circuits, and: why not? These menus are resourceful, delicious and glamorous too!
We’re feeling a little 2014 New Year’s sentimental!
And from this past year, we are so happy to have been a part of Film Biz Recycling‘s 2013 ‘Eco Expo’ in the big apple of NYC. It was truly enlightening and inspiring to be in a room with sustainably minded film makers from both sides of the pond. And just to add to the fine job they did of hosting, Film Biz put together a little video from the event: thanks, we love it! Can you spot us? check it out here.
What’s Our Proudest moment of 2013?
It has to
be walking the Green Carpet to the finale of this year’s Green Film Making Competition, at the Netherlands Film Festival. We’ve come a long way, and we’re tripping down memory lane before the new year. Check out the pictures and people behind our proudest 2013 moment on our Facebook page, and see why green should definitely become the new red carpet for 2014 here.