Sustainable practice in the creative screen industries

4pm, 5pm, 6:30pm and 7:30pm | with Metro Screen

Metro Screen invites you to participate in this unique opportunity to learn from pioneering Australian leaders in sustainable production practice. Intensive afternoon workshops will lead into lively evening panel discussions about the very real environmental challenges we face.

Featured Guests include:

Bridget Ikin

- Hibiscus Films ‘My Year Without Sex’

Mark O’Brien

Beyond Neutral ‘My Year Without Sex’

Jane Fullerton-Smith

- GreenShoot Pacific

Patrick Giltrap

- GreenShoot Pacific

Cass O'Connor

- GreenShoot Pacific

Kerri Ainsworth

- ‘the designing woman’

Mel Flanagan

- ‘Sacred Scraps’

Maaike Pullar

– The Bower

Emma Lawrence

- Co - Founder of The Rozelle Protocol and General Manager of Exit Films Sydney

Christine Harris-Smyth

- Reverse Garbage 

Linday Lipson

– National Green Screen Committee, Film Victoria

Michael Easton

-  the principal of Michael Easton Legal

Workshops schedule:

Trash to Treasure: Creative reuse and Art Direction.

4pm – 5pm | $10 / $15 for non members

Speakers:

Kerri Ainsworth - ‘the designing woman’.
Industry leader Kerri from the supply, creation, and reuse stages of the Art cycle will lead this intensive group workshop on the ways the Art Department can incorporate sustainable production practice. A creative approach to all areas of responsibility within an art department is paramount. Includes physical demonstration and presentation materials.
ALL TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR ONLY. Please arrive at least 20mins before the start time of the session you wish to attend in order to purchase your seat.

Sustainable On Set: Practical “Green Screen” solutions, strategies and systems

5pm – 6pm  $10 / $15 for non members
Speakers: Jane Fullerton-Smith - GreenShoot Pacific, Pat Giltrap -  GreenShoot and Cass O'Connor- GreenShoot Pacific
The experts at greening production service GreenShoot Pacific offer insight into their hands-on experiences, the challenges, the learnings and how you can implement best practice production solutions. How to practically problem-solve on set and in the production office and identify resource inefficiencies to save on costs.
ALL TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR ONLY. Please arrive at least 20mins before the start time of the session you wish to attend in order to purchase your seat.

BREAK:

6pm - 6.30pm
A chance to network and take advantage of our viewing stations that will be running from 4pm. Showing eco friendly films and inviting you to explore the plethora of green information that can be found online.

Seminars schedule

People, Planet and Profit: How can producers create and sell content sustainably?

6.30pm – 7.30pm | $10 / $15 for non members

Speakers:

Bridget Ikin, Hibiscus Films ‘My Year Without Sex’, Mark O’Brien, Beyond Neutral ‘My Year Without Sex’ and Emma Lawrence - Co - Founder of The Rozelle Protocol and General Manager of Exit Films Sydney
The team behind the feature film ‘My Year Without Sex’ will present the journey they took to make a carbon-reduced production. The relevance of carbon analysis and its benefits to the screen industry will also be explored. This seminar will be followed by a Q+A.
ALL TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR ONLY. Please arrive at least 20mins before the start time of the session you wish to attend in order to purchase your seat.

Green Initiatives: Funding, supporting and commissioning sustainable content.

7.30pm – 8.30pm | $10 / $15 for non members

Chair:

Michael Easton: With over 12 years experience as a lawyer in the media and entertainment industries, Michael Easton is the principal of Michael Easton Legal.

Panelists:

Linday Lipson – National Green Screen Committee, Film Victoria, Mark O’Brien - Beyond Neutral, ‘My Year Without Sex’, Jane Fullerton-Smith - GreenShoot Pacific, Kerri Ainsworth - ‘the designing woman’, Mel Flanagan - ‘Sacred Scraps’, Emma Lawrence - Co - Founder of The Rozelle Protocol and General Manager of Exit Films Sydney, Christine Harris-Smyth - Reverse Garbage
A high-level discussion on how we can sustain production while sustaining our environment featuring speakers from throughout the day.
ALL TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR ONLY. Please arrive at least 20mins before the start time of the session you wish to attend in order to purchase your seat.

Featured artists include:

Punk Monk Propaganda collective and Hayley Ablott will transform Metro Screen into an inspiring space for creative eco-interaction. Featuring entirely sustainable art installations constructed from materials salvaged from The Bower.

The Australian media industry has proven time and again that it has the power and creativity to influence the world. Attend the workshops, question the panels, join our twittering through the hashtag #MSGS, comment on our green blog and our extra info page be part of the solution.

“In times of great need, we need great creativity. Science is clever, but great creativity is something less knowable, more magical, and now we need that magic. This is a time of need. Our climate is changing quickly, too quickly, and great creativity is needed to do what it does so well- provoke us to think differently with dramatic creative statements; to tempt us to act differently.” Andy Hobsbawm, Green Thing.

WHEN:

Mon 30 Aug

WHERE:

Metro Screen, Paddington Town Hall Cnr Oxford St + Oatley Rd, Paddington

COST:

Each session is just $10 / $15 for non members
All day pass $30 / $50 for non members
ALL TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR ONLY. Please arrive at least 20mins before the start time of the session you wish to attend in order to purchase your seat.

For more information, including sponsorship enquiries and volunteer opportunities, contact Network Coordinator Kate Taylor at k.taylor@metroscreen.org.au or call Tuesdays on 02 9356 1818