The ecological transition is crucial to our future.
The Liège International Comedy Film Festival proposes ways to reduce the CO2 footprint of film productions, with the help of experts in ecology and cinema. How can we reconcile film production and the environment? Can we save carbon and euros?
Can films be eco-friendly?
Stop CO2medias!
We can laugh about anything, even the climate crisis, but we have to stop laughing when we produce films while ignoring their carbon impact.
Shooting a comedy and post-producing it emits an incredible volume of CO2.
A multi-site feature film shoot can produce up to 1,000 tonnes of CO2, the equivalent of 600,000 km by TGV.
The FIFCL proposes ways of reducing the CO2 footprint, with the help of climate and film experts.
To introduce the theme, a screening of an original short film and its making of is planned.
A year ago, Liège-based director Stéphane Hénocque took part in the Cinécomedies Lab training course run at the FIFCL by scriptwriter Fadette Drouard.
Together, they are back with “Résidence”, a comedy (of course) produced by Krok Films that ticks all the eco-production boxes according to The GreenShot.
This new short film will be preceded by a making-of feature by Serge Nagels, in which we’ll see the instructions that were applied right from the conception of the film to control its carbon footprint.
Two roundtables will explore the subject in greater depth: how can film production and the environment be reconciled?
Can we save carbon and euros?
Philippe Reynaert will introduce the debate on “What solutions are needed to achieve éCO²nomies?”, followed by Benjamin Vanhagendoren on the institutional audiovisual landscape in terms of climate protection.