From 7th-10th June 2022, FilmEU, the European Universities Alliance for Film and Media Arts will hold its second annual summit. This event is to showcase progress in the development of the project, share results with the broader academic community and explore a topic the consortium considers pivotal. This year’s theme is Environmental Sustainability in Film Education and the wider Film and Media Arts Industries.
Speakers at the open sessions will include policy makers, industry professionals, academic staff and crucially, students.
The event will host over one hundred attendees in person and many more online. It takes place between June 7th - 10th at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dublin, Ireland and the DLR Lexicon in Dun Laoghaire Town. Several bilateral events including the inaugural FilmEU Doctoral Summer Seminar, the showcasing of the first undergraduate film pilot and the launch of the 2022/23 Student Challenge.
The public sessions will be streamed on FilmEU YouTube channel. Register here for the online participation and updates about the FilmEU Summit.
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Key Notes
The FilmEU Summit Keynote speakers have been announced for June 8th as Prof Pat Brereton from Dublin City University, Ireland “Greening Irish Film and Television Production” and Tim Wagendorp, Sustainability Coordinator from the Flanders Audio Visual Fund, Belgium “Sustainawhat?”
Prof Brereton is a co-director of Climate and Society Research Centre at DCU and a member of the School of Communications. Committed to all aspects of critical media literacy and supporting effective environmental communication, he is a director of ScreenGreening which facilitates the leasing of the Albert Carbon Calculator from the UK which is currently being used by all television and film production in Ireland. His most recent book 'Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication: An A-Z Guide' is just published by Routledge.
Having an environmental background, Mr Wagendorp feels “somehow atypical in the audio-visual sector.” After working as an environmental scientist and policy expert for a federation of reuse companies, he has been the sustainability coordinator at the VAF since March 2017. “My main focus is on VAF-supported film and media productions, but I also raise awareness at other VAF-related areas like at physical cinemas, during the screenwriting process, games, animation and in education. We use the Sustainable Development Goals as a moral compass for our work. We exchange our knowledge as much as possible and play an active role within Green Screen (and EURECA), Cineregio and EFAD.”
Panels
Also, on June 8th we will host three panels presentations, followed by discussions focussing on sustainability approaches in industry, education and the student perspective.
From industry, speakers include Gareth Lee & Sharon O’Hara from Screen Ireland who will present the agency’s recently launch action plan; Madis Tüür from Münchhausen Films, Estonia and Latvia who will give an Estonian perspective and Ms. Riet De Prins a Producer at VRT, Belgian Broadcaster.
On the education panel we have Ms. Geert Werkers from Luca introducing the wider Strategic Development Goals, Ms. Mette Jellinge and Mr. Henrik Højer presenting the outcome of a sustainability project at VIA university, Denmark and Elen Lotman from BFM in Estonia.
We’ll then hear from our students - Anastasiya Maksymchuk (Lusófona University, Portugal), Lennart Mathias Männik (BFM, Estonia), Lukas Martens (LUCA, Belgium), Aoife Dowd Bedidi (IADT, Ireland). Our student guests will share sustainable practices that exist within their schools and fromFn work practices and the challenges they face. Also, on what their countries are doing to promote sustainability within the Film and Media. And what they think future students going into this industry should be thinking about. The session will be moderated by Stella Carneiro (Lusófona University, Portugal). From 7th-10th June 2022, FilmEU, the European University of film and media arts will hold its second annual summit. This event is to showcase progress in the development of the project, share results with the broader academic community and explore a topic the consortium considers pivotal. This year’s theme is Environmental Sustainability in Film Education and the wider Film and Media Arts Industries.
FilmEU_RIT (Research | Innovation | Transformation)
On June 10th we’ll be screening a mini-conference on Artistic Research in. In the form of a debate between the two European Universities in the file of applied arts. EU4ARTS and FilmEU From EU4ARTS we’ll hear from Till Ansgar Baumhauer, Manuel Angél Macía and Franco Ripa di Meana. From FilmEU we’ll have Elen Lotman, Veerle Van der Sluys and Daithí Mac Síthigh.
Announcements
Stay tuned to our social channels to hear about what practical steps we’ll be taking to play our part in a sustainable future.
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