1st Edition

Green Filmmaking A Guide to Sustainable Movie Production

By Kent Hayward Copyright 2025
202 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Beyond the principles of reduce, reuse, recycle, this book looks at how every department on a production can minimize its environmental impact. Is your filmmaking contributing to the environmental crisis, or is it part of the solution? How can film students make movies in a more ecologically friendly way so that our planet can continue to be inhabited by humans who watch their films? This book... Read more

About the Illustrations in the Book

Preface

Introduction

Acknowledgements

About the Cover

Chapter 1: An Introduction to the The History and Context of Green Filmmaking

Chapter 2: Intersections and Production

Chapter 3: Why be Green?

Chapter 4: How To Film Green - By Department

Chapter 5: Documentary

Chapter 6: Content, Development, and Climate Storytelling

Chapter 7: Preproduction: The Plan

Chapter 8: The Production Department

Chapter 9: Production Design, Art, Construction, Props, and Set Decoration

Chapter 10: Camera, Grip, and Electric

Chapter 11: Actors, Talent, and Casting

Chapter 12: Food: Catering and Craft Services

Chapter 13: Wardrobe, Hair, and Makeup

Chapter 14: Transportation

Chapter 15: Effects

Chapter 16: Sustainable Sound Practices in Film Production

Chapter 17: Editorial or Post-production

Chapter 18: Wrap

Chapter 19: Green Filmmaking Case Studies and Jobs

Chapter 20: Looking to the Future

Appendix A

Appendix B

Index

Biography

Kent Hayward is a filmmaker, Associate Professor of Production at California State University Long Beach, and a cofounder and vice-Chair of the Green Film School Alliance, a consortium committed to integrating sustainable production practices into film school programs. Previously, Hayward worked in visual effects and editorial on films including The Dark Knight, Inception, and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and on TV shows for NBC Universal, SyFy, and Lifetime. Hayward’s films include Lunar Estates, August, Sunset to Sunset, and Homestead Artifact. He earned his BA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. Currently, Hayward is working on an essay film on themes ranging from the environmental havoc that humankind has wreaked on the planet to the enduring mystery of Bigfoot.