The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival

While some of these requirements for the Code of Best Practices for Sustainable Filmmaking won’t necessarily relate to our filmmaking festival, but this year, The Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival Boulder 2009 will look for ways to reduce our carbon foot print and hopefully the filmmakers will discover alternative ways to reduce their own foot print with their future productions.

The Center for Social Media at the American University recently put together a code and associated materials which were reviewed for scientific validity by experts in the field of climate change, carbon reduction, and sustainability. In addition, filmmakers from around the world reviewed it to ensure the information was both clear and relevant.

“Filmmakers historically have played an important role in raising critical issues for society, including environmental threats from climate change and over-exploitation of resources. Increasingly, filmmakers have adopted pro-environmental practices in their own production. This code provides tools for filmmakers to measure whether their practices are as sustainable as they can be throughout the production process. Accompanying online checklists, trackers, and Web resources provide a summary of current approaches that implement that rationale…”

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If you have any comments or suggestions on how The Shoot Out Boulder can do a few of these suggestions, please feel free to share them here.