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Reel Green General Meeting May 15 Re-Cap
Reel Green hosted a General Meeting on May 15th, 2018 where 19 members of the motion picture industry strategized on how to reduce our collective environmental impacts. This meeting featured […]
Sustainable Production Award Winners
2018 was the first Sustainable Production Excellence Awards as part of the Sustainable Production Forum. Read on to see who this year’s winners were. Top photo from left to right: […]
Landmark Clean Energy Fleet Enters Film
Big news to come out of the world of sustainable production this past month! Reel Green advocate Portable Electric and Reel Green partner, Sim International Inc. have joined forces to […]
Vancouver Film Studios pushes forward with sustainability
The first carbon neutral film studio in Canada has a new announcement about how they’re furthering sustainability at their studio lot. As of June 15th, Vancouver Film Studios installed eight […]
Free Carbon Calculator for the industry
Reel Green Carbon Calculator powered by albert coming Fall 2019! We’re excited to say that Reel Green has been working hand in hand with the team at one of the […]
Reel Green at AFCI in Los Angeles
On Friday April 5th Marnie Orr, Acting British Columbia Film Commissioner and Julie Bernard, Manager, Production Services joined Shannon Bart, Director of Sustainability, NBCUniversal and Michael Walbrecht, Vice President, Public […]
Ban on Styrofoam (Expanded Polystyrene) in Metro Vancouver starting July 1, 2018
Did you hear? Starting July 1, 2018, Metro Vancouver will be putting into effect a ban on Expanded Polystyrene Disposal. About the Ban In October 2017, the GVS&DD Board […]
Vancouver Greenest City Plan Includes Sustainable Production
In January 2019, Vancouver City Council unanimously approved a motion recognizing the climate emergency that we collectively face, and acknowledged that Vancouver needs to do more to reduce carbon pollution. […]
Fifty Shades Freed celebrated for going green!
Learn how Fifty Shade Freed worked to divert 75% of set waste and donated 288 tonnes of materials to local non-profits and charities. Reel Green is excited to share this […]
Carbon Literacy Courses | What’s it all about?
The Reel Green initiative set out to improve our environmental impacts within the motion picture industry. Through comprehensive strategic planning and engagement, four priority areas were outlined as critical to […]
Tell Us What’s Happening Feature: Donating Set Materials to Charity
Keep it Green Recycling is not only an incredible service provider, but they’re also a connector and have sustainability in mind first and foremost in everything that they do. Recently […]
New Digital Tools to Green the Motion Picture Industry: Scriptation
Reel Green is excited for the digital era and the possibilities that come with it for the film industry to explore and leverage for more sustainable filmmaking practices! Scriptation is […]