Green Filmmaking: A Guide to Sustainable Movie Production

Beyond the principles of reduce, reuse, recycle, this book looks at how every department on a production can minimize its environmental impact.

Is your filmmaking contributing to the environmental crisis, or is it part of the solution? How can film students make movies in a more ecologically friendly way so that our planet can continue to be inhabited by humans who watch their films? This book suggests step-by-step ways that each person and department on a film’s production can make simple changes to reduce their project’s environmental footprint, from including climate content to offering vegetarian craft service options.

It is an essential guide for film students, graduates, and professionals engaged in the practice of making movies.

Kent Hayward is a filmmaker and Associate Professor of production at California State University Long Beach and a co-founder of the Green Film School Alliance. He earned his BA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. Previously, Hayward worked in visual effects and editorial on films including The Dark Knight, Inception, and Terminator 3, and TV shows for NBC Universal, SyFy, and Lifetime. Hayward’s projects include Lunar Estates, Homestead Artifact, August, Dream Experiment #2, and Sunset to Sunset. Currently, Hayward is working on an essay film about Bigfoot. He is also a co-founder and the Vice-Chair of the Green Film School Alliance.