During the 73rd edition of the Berlin Film Festival - scheduled from 16 to 26 February - we found a moment to talk not only about the titles in competition, but also about the environment. In fact, within the framework of the European Films Market, the first results of the Green Protocol by the Green Research Lab have emerged, i.e. a research and development project oriented towards a more responsible and scrupulous coexistence between the audiovisual and the environment through the incentive of tools and strategies that favor the growth of the culture of sustainability, also in the cinematographic field.
This was made possible thanks to the Green Film specification and certification , a project born in 2016 by the will of the Trentino Film Commission - Trentino Sviluppo Spa area - engaged in the creation of eco-sustainable productions and which can now boast international recognition thanks to the support of Film Commissions and regional, national and European funds by those who took part in the initiative.
This research wants to be brought to the attention of all film industries that intend to take on an active and concrete role in guaranteeing their own contribution to the fight against the most recent climate change.
The data that has currently been possible to extrapolate correspond to the comparison between those collected by some productions with Green Film certification in the two-year period 2021-2022 and others coming from some productions with traditional working methods. From these bases we obtain feedback that allows us to reliably evaluate the environmental and economic impact of the application of the specification.
With regard to the production areas examined , as far as emissions with risk of climate change are concerned, those with the greatest impact are housing and transport . Thus, the specific actions that significantly reduce the impact are: the use of energy from renewable sources, with savings of 96% of CO2 emissions compared to the use of energy from fossil fuels; the supply of water from the mains, with a 93% saving in CO2 emissions compared to the use of disposable plastic bottles; the elimination of communications in paper format, with a 75% saving in CO2 emissions. And yet the differentiated collection of waste which favors a saving of CO2 emissions of 85%.
John Scanu