For a short outdoor shoot, the crew plugs lighting and camera equipment into the municipality's underground power pillars on the square, tied into the local renewable-energy grid, instead of hiring and running a diesel g…
Le buone pratiche
The whole festival menu is plant-based. Compostable single-use tableware has been replaced with reusable tableware. Order quantities are set using consumption data from previous editions rather than guesswork, to limit f…
Producers, caterers and film commissions test, in real shooting conditions rather than in theory: separating waste on set into measured streams, composting locally on site, offering alternative protein sources on the cat…
Instead of sending leftover set pieces to the skip at wrap, the production hands them to a relay structure: a DIY recycling workshop that stores set pieces for the theatre world, or a municipal drop-off point where produ…
Rather than building or buying everything new, the art department reuses existing props, borrows or lends equipment between productions, and buys from second-hand shops. For set construction, it favours FSC-certified mat…
Two battery-based systems are tested as a replacement for the diesel generator: a small solar-and-battery unit, silent, transportable by one or two people, built with more than 98% recycled battery cells, for smaller pro…
The festival cuts diesel use step by step over several editions — from a baseline of 50,000 litres down to 2,150 litres, then through a transitional period on biodiesel — before moving, from 2022, to fully fossil-free po…