Industry Panel: Sustainable Production (U)

As The Garden Cinema members community is not just made up of cinema enthusiasts, but also covers a large range of film creatives, we like to help connect our members working across all departments of the industry. For our regular industry panels, we invite knowledgeable speakers to discuss their specific branch of the industry, leaving plenty of time for asking questions. After the discussion, we all head into the bar to network with fellow members.

For our upcoming session on Monday 8 September, we are crosspollinating with our Planting Seeds strand, as we will be joined by Danusia Samal and Will Attenborough from Green Rider, a movement of artists and productions shifting the TV & film industry towards a fairer and healthier way of working. We will discuss how different key players from the film sector come together to create a greener film industry.

Tickets are £5, and include a token for a complimentary soft drink, house wine, or beer. They're restricted to 1 per member.

About the speakers:

Danusia Samal is a co-founder of Green Rider. She's also an actor and writer, known for The Great, Gangs of London and Bodies. She won the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award for Out of Sorts in 2018. In 2020, she launched the Virtual Collaborators Network, supporting creatives to collaborate remotely in lockdown.

Will Attenborough is a co-founder of Green Rider. He is an actor and climate campaigner, known for Our Girl, The Output, and Dunkirk, as well as Another Country and Photograph 51 in the West End. He's an experienced climate finance strategist who's run successful campaigns with Equity and the Mayor of London, which led to billions of pounds being moved out of fossil fuel investments and into clean solutions.

Check out our Youtube channel for videos of our previous industry panels, which have included:

• Film music, with Jen Moss (I, Tonya), Gary Downing (MRKR), and Harry Escott (Shame)
• Art direction, with Lydia Fry (Blade Runner 2049) and Charlotte Dirickx (Saltburn)
• Trailer editing, with Dan Noall and Kate Miller
• Screenwriting, with Luna Carmoon (Hoard) and Daniel Kokotajlo (Starve Acre)
• Casting, with Rebecca Wright (Chuck Chuck Baby) and Lucy Jordan (Kinds of Kindness, Poor Things)
• Animation, with Michaël Dudok de Wit (The Red Turtle) and Alexandra Sasha Balan (The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse)
• Cinematography, with Evelin van Rei (Passenger), Bebe Dierken (Midas Man) and Nanu Segal (Hoard)
• Costume, with Joanna Johnston (Lincoln) and Charlotte Finlay (Barbie)
• Documentary, with Edward Lovelace (Name Me Lawand) and Tom Howson (Dogwoof)
• Film festivals, with Christina Papasotiriou (Raindance Film Festival) and Philip Ilson (London Short Film Festival)
• Film journalism, with Jacob Stolworthy (The Independent) and Jack Shepherd (Total Film)
• Production, with Georgia Goggin (Pretty Red Dress) and Susan Simnett (Fadia's Tree)