We are pleased to announce that MISC will join The Green Film School Alliance, a new a consortium of film schools and industry companies who have come together for the goal of attaining sustainability and best environmental practices in film production. The Alliance is developing a sustainability checklist that can be used by student filmmakers to ensure all is being done to achieve green film sets. The checklist will focus on the things that can be done during development, preproduction, production, and postproduction to reduce our environmental footprint. The goal is to teach and prioritize environmental concerns the same way we now teach and prioritize safety. The participating schools are USC, AFI, UCLA, Chapman, LMU, Cal State, and Emerson. The industry is represented by NBC Universal, HBO, and Paramount.

In recent years, the film production industry has had to take a long, hard look at how the industry can have a damaging impact on the environment. “Big movies can generate 225 tons of scrap metal, nearly 50 tons of construction and set debris, and 72 tons of food waste.” (LA Times, July 29, 2014) In California alone, the film and television industry created “8.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide; the number for the U.S. film and TV industry as a whole was 15 million tons. (Vice News, Jul 15, 2019). The expectation is that when the Alliance’s checklist is complete, it will be embraced by additional schools around the country who will join.

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