Green Film Shooting: COP21 Special Edition

During the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21), the colossal façade of the French National Library will be transformed into a projection screen for a live video feed of penguins that French filmmaker Luc Jacquet will transmit daily from Antarctica. “We’re going to screen it at the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand in Paris to raise awareness on both penguins and the emergency situation in Antarctica”, says  Jacquet in his ECO//COP interview. Raising awareness for climate change is one of the primary goals of Film4Climate, a program initiated by the World Bank’s Connect4Climate. “We chose to focus on film because it has great powers of persuasion”, stresses Lucia Grenna, Program Manager at Connect4Climate.

Since its launch at the beginning of 2015, Film4Climate has participated in many industry gatherings and film festivals, where it forged a broad range of partnerships, including one with the French network Ecoprod, founded in 2008 by Catherine Puiseux, CSR Director, TF1 Group and Olivier-René Veillon, CEO of the Ile-de-France Film Commission, whose mission is to green the Film and TV industry in France. Ecoprod provides Film and TV producers with various tools to reduce their carbon footprint. “About twenty productions test or use Carbon Clap each month, which results in about 100 to 150 evaluations per year”, outlines Puiseux.