The Code: www.sustainablefilmmaking.org

For the past six months FFC has been working closely with the Centre for Social Media and the Centre for Environmental Filmmaking, both at American University in Washington DC, to develop a Code of Best Practice in Sustainable Filmmaking. 

Why a code, you may ask? Well, here’s some background. While there are already ‘green’ filmmaking guides available on the Internet, few, maybe none, have been developed through detailed research or submitted to peer review. Thanks to support from The Ford Foundation and WWF UK, authors Larry Engel and Andrew Buchanan, both FFC members, have been able to research and write this Code and then put it through the review process, which is now complete.

FFC, The Centre for Social Media and Centre for Environmental Filmmaking believe that it represents the best and most comprehensive advice currently available on how documentary filmmakers can reduce their impact on the planet.

The principles in this new Code are the basis on which we have developed checklists and carbon trackers that filmmakers can use to reduce their carbon emissions and their damage to the environment.