September 2025

GFSA is honored to have collaborated with the Environmental Media Association in creating the first-ever EMA Student Award this year! We hope to use this award, which has garnered international interest among student filmmakers, to shed light on the world of climate storytelling for all film students. We're thrilled to watch the next generation of filmmakers and creators engage with the environment and sustainability in their productions; our three finalists have produced incredible documentaries and narratives that we're proud to give industry-level acclaim. Congratulations to MJ Cali, Teresa Castillo, and Bibesh Roy! We hope this year marks the first of many for the Student Award! 

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April 2025

Submissions for the second annual Climate Film Festival NYC are now live! Submit your film by May 16 via FilmFreeway platform. CFF welcomes a broad range of climate storytelling, including: Animation; Children’s Programs; Documentary; Episodic; Experimental; Music Videos; Shorts; and Narrative Film. .  Read More

April 2025

Author, filmmaker, professor, and GFSA founding memebr, Kent Hayward is featured in an exclusive Sundance Collab Advisor Studio where he goes through key principles from his new book, Green Filmmaking: A Guide to Sustainable Movie Production. This book is a step-by-step look at the ways that each person in a film’s production can make simple changes to reduce the environmental footprint of moviemaking.  Read More

March 2025

NYU’s Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center achieved LEED Platinum certification and will receive a LEED Platinum plaque presented by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) at a ceremony March 25. This is the university’s first LEED Platinum Commercial Interior project and another milestone in its sustainability efforts.  Read More

December 2024

Shoutout LA talks with prodcuer and former GFSA student ambassador Marguerite Truckey.

"When I was in college, I was student ambassador of the Green Film School Alliance, who is partnered with the EMA (Environmental Media Association) to promote sustainability efforts on sets, starting at the student level. Being from the mountains of Colorado, I am very passionate about our environment and our individual roles in its health, while preventing further added waste into the system. Film sets can be very wasteful, but it’s actually very simple to make effective changes. Many crew members have had interest in EWA’s green seals for their own films and programs, so it’s a field I’m happy to be a part of and hope will continue to grow!"  Read More

July 2024

It’s official: Southern Oregon University’s Digital Cinema program makes SOU one of the best film schools in North America. The current edition of MovieMaker magazine, which bills itself as the world’s most widely read independent film magazine, includes SOU among its picks for the “30 Best Film Schools in the U.S. & Canada.”  Read More

April 2024

The College of Motion Picture Arts at Florida State University has become a member of the Green Film School Alliance. This organization is dedicated to incorporating sustainable production practices at the industry level into film school programs.  Read More

November 2023

The filming process as a whole is resource-intensive. It takes a significant amount of energy and materials to build and operate sets, transport people and props, ensure a healthy and safe working environment, and meet the needs of all the people who work on set. To mitigate some of this impact, sustainable production guidelines have been in place at Paramount Pictures since 2013 and at Paramount Television Studios since 2014. These programs and initiatives keep evolving over time. In 2022, Paramount expanded its use of sustainable production guidelines and hired a dedicated employee to oversee sustainable production initiatives for additional studios and brands. Read More

November 2023

Peter Byck, a professor of practice at ASU’s School of Sustainability, produced a film featuring farmers and scientists with different viewpoints discussing the carbon footprint of both conventional and regenerative cattle grazing. The Arizona premiere of “Roots So Deep (You Can See the Devil Down There)” took place in late October at ASU. Michael Crow, ASU President, said the film helps us “to better understand the relationship between agricultural production and climate change.”  

August 2023

Sustainability in filmmaking has been elevated from a mere trend to a vital necessity and California State University, Long Beach students in the Film & Electronic Arts Department at CSULB are leading the charge.

December 2022

California State University, Long Beach professor leads research into sustainable filmmaking

November 2022

Vancouver Film School is pleased to announce that it has joined The Green Film School Alliance (GFSA). Along with 15 other schools, this more than doubles the organization’s membership to 27 total schools.

November 2022

GFSA announces the addition of sixteen new schools, more than doubling its membership to 27 including in its ranks the top nine in The Hollywood Reporter’s 25 Top Film Schools.

October 2022

Twenty-four student projects from five schools (AFI, NYU, UCLA, the University of Arizona, and the University of New Orleans) earned an EMA Green Seal for Students.

October 2022

The first student film to use GFSA’s tool, Shedding Angels, received a Bronze Medal at the Student Academy Awards in the Narrative category.

September 2022

GFSA launched its Student Ambassador initiative with seven school representatives.

February 2022

The University of Southern California film school is making sustainability a requirement for student productions — and is joining other schools in spreading the word on green filmmaking. 

August 2021

GFSA launches the Production Environmental Activities Checklist for Young Filmmakers (PEACHy) simultaneously with the Environmental Media Association's Green Seal for Students

August 2021

Eight of the eleven founding schools are among The Hollywood Reporter's Top 25 American Film Schools

October 2020

GFSA soft launches with 11 film schools

October 2020

Motion Picture Association, Producers Guild of America, Green Production Guide, Sustainable Production Alliance, and GFSA  air a conversation with sustainability experts speaking from studio, producer, professor, and student perspectives on in an Episode of Film School Friday.