Artikelen
Alle artikelen die GFM in de laatste 10 jaar heeft
geschreven over duurzaamheid in de filmwereld.
Jane Fullerton Smith & Jessica Conoplia (Australia)
Having most recently worked on Baz Luhrmann‘s multi-million dollar Hollywood blockbuster “The Great Gatsby“, as well as having just published the free online Good Green Production Bible, Jane Fullerton’s GreenShoot Pacific has big things on the horizon for future sustainable film production work. read more…
Beth Bell (USA)
For the Green Film Making Project, sustainable film making usually takes us behind the scenes where we explore the new ways in which film makers and production teams work to reduce production waste, while maximizing energy efficiency. Trailblazing CEO Beth Bell however, and her Green Product Placement, draws our attention to the front of the screen where the impact of sustainable film-making is more tangible for film going audiences. read more…
Golf Carts on set just aint cool no more…
Our friends, sustainably minded product developers Waarmakers have teamed up with Dutch Inholland Composietenlab in Delft to create their latest design. The lab brought together 65 students, 11 teachers, 10 companies and 20 professionals, to make this innovative masterpiece! Say hello to Be.e, the most sustainable scooter in the entire world!
Driving electric isn’t new of course, but Be.e takes it to the next level. Drivers of the Be.e sit on a beautiful bio-composite frame. Bio-what? A mix of Dutch flax and natural resins. 100% natural, extremely strong and lightweight. It’s the first vehicle on the market that’s made out of these exciting and high quality sustainable materials. In other words: a revolution in vehicle land!
Imagine if all cars in The Netherlands would be made with a bio-composite construction, it would mean a reduction of 1.08 million tonnes of CO2 emissions. Wow!
The scooter will be on the market soon so you can test it out yourself. And we think it would be a great tool to transport goods and actors across sets – effeciently!
Fill Bellies, Not Bins – on&off set too!
Free soup alert! Damn Food Waste is feeding 5000 people at the museum square in Amsterdam on 29 June. The lunch will be made of fresh produce that is normally thrown out because of different shapes
or sizes. ‘Damn Food Waste’ aims to bring attention to the amount of food wasted every day- 1/3 of our food is thrown away- that’s worth 4,4 million € a year in The Netherlands alone, unbelievable! Just think of how many people all the wasted food on film sets could feed…
For the event, big piles of fresh greens will be brought into field kitchens on the museum square where they are made into a most fresh and delicious soup! Plus you can dance next to the chefs in the “Disco Soup” of the Youth Food Movement.
Tell your friends and join this fun event on the 29th of June between 12:00 and 16:00 on Museum Square in Amsterdam.
Find them and R.S.V.P. on facebook: Here, and here if you want to help with food preparations the day before.
Sustainable Sessions: part one
Want to get involved in sustainability but don’t know where to start? We do! Come to the first of our Sustainable Sessions on the 26th of June in Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam, and get inspired! We have a wonderful line-up, with a.o. Fairphone, Flemish sustainable Filmmaker Nic Balthazar, and Sabine Veenendaal from Dutch film and Television production company Flinck Film. If you’re speaking Dutch, and want to join: Sign up here!
In preparation for the ‘Dutch Film Festival‘, we have organized Sustainable Sessions to explore the urgency and possibilities lying behind a sustainable shift within the
Dutch media industries.
After a keynote of the inspiring Peter Smith of the Dopper Water & Waste Academy you can choose two from five presented sessions of 45 minutes each, to explore a mix of cutting edge innovative designs, as well
as green ideas about the possibilities of the future. The lectures will give practical ideas and examples of how to fit sustainability into your professional, as well as daily life. Speakers include:
- Francesca Miazzo from Voedsellogica and Cities
- Last year’s Green Film Making Competition finalist Sabine Veenendaal from Flinck Film
- Flemish Filmmaker Nic Balthazar, who produced his last movie emission-free
- Siere Catering – a catering business that has worked sustainable for over twenty years!
- and the cool innovative guys from Fairphone!
What: Sustainable Sessions
When: June 26 – 12:30pm to 5pm
Where: Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam
Sign up here
Ireland’s ‘Body&Soul’ is Eco-Friendly too
We are super inspired by all of the sustainability initiatives of Ireland’s 3-day ‘Body&Soul’ music festival happening this weekend: June 21-23. The festival emphasises atmospheric engineering over main attractions and hype: “We want our festival-goers to enjoy an ‘experience’ rather than just a gig – we’re sustainability conscious, without being too-in-your-face; unique rather than boutique.”
An hour from Dublin, the festival will be set across the 300 acre estate of Ballinlough Castle, it’s private lake, surrounding woodlands and fifteenth century walled gardens. Not bad, not bad at all!
The festival prides itself on being able to host a “unique and indescribable magic – an atmosphere so often lost in generic festivals and productions”.
Sustainability initiatives for the festival are so unique and engaging, that the festival even bears a “Social Responsibility Award” as granted by the Irish Festival Awards.
Some of the sustainable initiatives of this year include:
- ‘Pimp My Bin’ – a competition for the design and creation of a unique and artistically attractive recycling centre as an art installation for the festival, and to encourage recycling habits
- ‘Green Ideas’ – a competition, which asks the festival patrons for their ideas on how to become a more sustainable festival
- Sponsored Cycling to the Festival– each bike on its way to Body&Soul in support of Green Sod Ireland, is entitled to a professional bike check, baggage transfer, a massage on arrival, bus transportation home, and a ticket to the Body&Soul Festival, WOW!
- ‘Us&You’ campsite – a new and unique camping experience dedicated to those with a greener conscience
- Green VIP Package – a reward system for more responsible members of the festival audience as well as sustainability competition winners
Still curious? You can read even more about the Body&Soul sustainability strategy here.
We are so inspired by all of these sustainability initiatives but enjoy the festival’s dedication to engaging festival-goers with this programming the most! Well done! With performing acts this year like soulful Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaries, Nicolas Jaar, Solange, as well as Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, we are DEFINITELY penning this event into our calendar for 2014 holidays already…
But maybe you can go this year? Lucky for you, there are still tickets.
Keep up to date with the festival and it’s sustainability initiatives on their facebook page.