• ISBN13: 9781032545622
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Music, Theatre & Films
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: November 12, 2025
• Pages: 196
• Original Price: GBP 35.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 290 grams

Beyond the principles of reduce, reuse, recycle, this book looks at the way that every department on a production can contribute to reducing waste and making a smaller footprint.

Are you making a green film? 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 our movies? This book is a step-by-step look at the ways that each person and department in a film’s production can make simple changes to reduce the environmental footprint of moviemaking.

It is an essential guide for film students, graduates and professionals engaged in the practice of making media.

Kent Hayward is a filmmaker and Associate Professor of production at California State University Long Beach and a co-founder of the Green Film School Alliance. He earned his BA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. Previously, Hayward worked in visual effects and editorial on films including The Dark Knight, Inception, and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and TV shows for NBC Universal, SyFy, and Lifetime. Hayward's projects include Lunar Estates, August, Sunset to Sunset, and Homestead Artifact. Currently, Hayward is working on an essay film about Bigfoot. He is also a co-founder and the Vice-Chair of the Green Film School Alliance.