Sustainability in Lithuanian Film Festivals: Joined Forces to Go Green. Signing The Green Charter For Film Festivals
The “Green Charter For Film Festivals” is an initiative by the member of European film festivals network “Moving Images – Open Borders”, Les Arcs Film Festival in France, that calls for the starting point for an ever-improving practice of organising more environmentally friendly film festivals.
“The main goal is to create a platform that gathers information about practical environmentally friendly solutions for various stages of the festival organisation; a platform where festival representatives can share their ideas, experiences and recommendations for service providers. The Green Charter is not a call for strict guidelines on how to organise the “greenest” festival; it is a community that helps each festival be more aware of its activities and their impact on the environment and to commit to improving with each year.”
The “Green Charter For Film Festivals” will be presented by Guillaume Calop, the general manager and co-founder of the Les Arcs Film Festival.
The event will be followed by a discussion of the film festivals representatives:
• Guillaume Calop, the general manager of the Les Arcs Film Festival;
• Dmitrij Gluscevskij, program coordinator at European Film Forum Scanorama;
• Mirona Radu, artistic director at Animation Bucharest International Film Festival (ABIFF), festival director at Film O'Clock International Festival;
Every film festival, regardless of its size, is invited to improve its environmental impact on its city and country and join the event of signing the Green Charter.
Guillaume Calop – started his career at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival where his passion for cinema and film festivals grew. He then moved to Los Angeles to participate in the launch of the web portal Animation World Network (awn.com). Back in France, then worked for 7 years at the internet branch of CANAL+ group. In 2004, Guillaume decided to launch a personal project and set up a DVD publishing company called Chalet Pointu, specialised in animation, short films, documentaries and other rarities, opened a small DVD shop in Paris and on the web that became one of the best address for rare and quality films on DVD.
In 2009, together with his partner Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin, they imagined a film festival in the mountains where they grew up, the ski resort of Les Arcs. In only a few years, Les Arcs Film Festival became a major marketplace and event for European cinema. Beyond cinema, Les Arcs Film Festival is a place where the team likes to explore societal subjects such as the place of women in the field of cinema, ecology and European culture.
Guillaume is also the co-founder of “Le Village”, a company developing professional platforms for film festivals (“FestiCiné”) and film projects (“Coprocity”) and the co-founder of Le Lab Femmes de Cinéma, a think tank aiming to analyse, study and develop ideas for a better consideration of women in the film industry.
Dmitrij Gluščevskij, film critic, film program curator. Graduated with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a master's degree in semiotics from Vilnius University. Since 2016 works as European Film Forum “Scanorama” film programmer. In 2016 together with Aleksas Gilaitis established “Scanorama” satellite event, early film festival “First Wave” (lith. Pirmoji banga).
Mirona Radu is a director and producer, working in the film industry – film production and distribution – for about 15 years, including international film festivals. Since 2019 she is a programmer and coordinator of an arthouse cinema in Bucharest. Since 2021, the founder and director of Film O'Clock International Festival, a film festival that unites simultaneous screenings in six countries on two continents. Having a background in visual studies, in 2022 she was also appointed as an Artistic Director for ABIFF – Animation Bucharest International Festival.
Event in English.
The event took place on November 19th, 2022.