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Caroline in Cannes

So here I am in Cannes and only now just getting into my stride.  I'm still recovering from yesterday's early start - I was moderating a panel exploring ways in which the film industry could act in a more environmentally-responsible manner.  As many of you will know the film business with its catering trucks, generators and international travel is hardly the most sensitive and socially responsible industry.  Fergus Rolfe of the Low Carbon Innovation Centre, who was one of my guests on yesterday's panel, calculated that the average feature film created carbon emissions equivalent to driving around the planet 250 times!  Other speakers included Lucy Walker director of Countdown to Zero which screens today, environmental journalist Christine Robert from Bright Green Pictures, distributor Andy Whittaker from Dogwoof, Melanie Dicks whose company Greenshoot provides a complete re-cycling and environmental audit for film production and Laurie Hayward who is here to lauch his 3.2m venture capital fund for low carbon digital production projects.  Over the last couple of years South West Screen has been working on a number of initiatives helping companies reduce their environmental impact and I've taken away many more ideas from the session which I hope will help us up our game in the South West.
 
Today South West Screen are talking in the UK Pavilion about our iFeatures initiative and have Damien Wise from Empire chairing the session for us.  We're expecting a big crowd as many micro-budget movies are increasingly generating some really good films that audiences are keen to see and everyone wants to know the secrets for success. 
 
It's not all work of course - the London Film Festival had their reception last night and so I'm still suffering from rather a lot of champagne on an empty stomach.  Must get a coffee from somewhere soon.......

Caroline in Cannes