Germany has recently introduced ecological standards for the film industry that are unique in the world. Whether for energy usage, transportation, accommodation and catering or the use and utilization of materials, these ecological standards for more climate- and resource-friendly German cinema, TV and online/VoD cover all areas of production. German actress Pheline Roggan played a key role in their development: She is co-founder of Changemakers.film, an initiative for green filming and actively reducing CO2 emissions in the film industry. It was instrumental in developing the ecological standards—mandatory government directives linked to subsidies—that apply to all publicly-funded cinema, TV and online productions in Germany since 1 July 2023.
In her keynote lecture, Pheline Roggan will talk about how she turned a difficult phase of climate anxiety, panic and helplessness into successfully campaigning for sustainable film production and how she confronts the crisis with the idea that we are not (yet) living in the best of all possible worlds: It is about the power of storytelling, concrete utopias and the possibilities that open up when we join forces with others and demand change.
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Photo: Yvonne SchmedemannPheline Roggan
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Pheline Roggan is a well know actress from Hamburg, Germany. She started her career playing the female lead in Fatih Akins Soulkitchen which won the Grand Price of the jury on the Venice Film Festival 2009. Since the she is continually working for Film, TV and VoD Productions as well as playing Theatre and having readings. Being a climate activist in her private life, she cofounded the Initiative Changemakers.film in 2019 to help transform the film industry towards a more sustainable way of producing movies. They were part of a group that negotiated the “ecological standards“ which are now included in the law of german film funding, so that since August 2023 every production that is applying for state funding has to maintain sustainable working methods. As an author she wrote a concept for the climate fiction series Die Welt kippt/ the tipping point and she wrote and Co-hostet the Dokuseries Wir können auch anders to help changing the narrative in fictional and documentary films towards a positive future vision.
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Presented in the context of the Studiotopia project. Studiotopia is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
