Green Film Forum

As well as guidance on how to reduce carbon footprints, we will explore how being green can be a source of innovation and inspiration, enhancing the creative development of a film – with potential cost savings too.

Ffilm Cymru is dedicated to advancing a sustainable film sector. Our Green Cymru programme aims to support screen sector professionals and companies in Wales to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. We will achieve this with funding, training, research and development to discover new ways of working sustainably in Wales’ screen industry.

This event will include live captioning and BSL interpretation. If you would like to attend and have any additional access requirements, please contact Tracy Spottiswoode on tracy@ffilmcymruwales.com or call 07902 492109 to discuss in confidence.

We are pleased to be joined by our guest panel:

Michelle Antoniades, Hazey Jane Films

Michelle Antoniades is a British-Cypriot producer and former BAFTA CREW & BFI Network member with an extensive production background in TV and feature documentaries. She produced Marley Morrison’s debut feature Sweetheart, backed by the BFI and released in 2021, the film won two British Independent Film Awards and was longlisted for BAFTA Outstanding Debut in 2022. Previous short films include the award-winning Baby Gravy and Leroy.

Hazey Jane Films, run by Marley Morrison and Michelle Antoniades, is based in London UK. From grassroots music videos and short films, the company has now progressed to feature films and TV series. Hazey Jane Films exists to champion authored and distinctive content for UK and International audiences. The company is committed to making productions more environmentally responsible and sustainable.

Chris Buxton, Hybrid Narrative

Chris Buxton is an award-winning filmmaker, who has made several shorts that have been screened at festivals around the world and won multiple prizes, including a BAFTA Cymru award. In parallel to his filmmaking career, Chris has written for BBC 1 and BBC Wales. He produced The Harri-Parris, first as a national touring stage show then as a BBC Radio sitcom, for which he also wrote several episodes and song lyrics. Chris began his media career as a journalist, writing for multiple national newsstand magazines, including Total Film and Edge, before making his first shorts then studying film production as a postgraduate. He is currently developing a slate of feature film & TV projects and also lectures in film and TV production. Originally from Bristol, Chris lives near Cardiff, where he enjoys gardening and has developed a taste for obscure Italian aperitifs.

Hybrid Narrative is business as unusual, a radical new way of making films that transforms the number of resources they require and transforms their potential impact upon the environment. By changing the way that productions are conceived creatively, Hybrid Narrative involves a wholesale re-imagining of how we tell stories on screen, with a new approach that can make production much greener by combining green screen filming with motion design techniques and low-cost digital tools.

Lauren Orme, Cardiff Animation Festival

Lauren Orme is an award-winning animator and director based in Cardiff. Her Beacons-funded animated short film Creepy Pasta Salad was shortlisted for a BAFTA and nominated for a BAFTA Cymru in 2020.

Lauren is Festival Director of Cardiff Animation Festival (CAF), and Creative Director of Picl Animation, a Cardiff-based animation studio which she co-founded in 2018. Picl is one of the first animation companies in the UK to become a certified B Corporation.

Lauren moved to Cardiff in 2010 while studying animation at the University of Wales, Newport. In 2014, Lauren founded Cardiff Animation Nights, showcasing international animated short films to a thriving audience in Cardiff, and in 2018 she co-founded CAF. Through CAF, Lauren has led two R&D projects exploring environmental sustainability in the animation industry, one funded by Clwstwr, and another, currently in its final stage, funded by Ffilm Cymru and Clwstwr's Green Cymru programme.