Screen International is profiling all the winners of the fourth Global Production Awards, which were held tonight (May 18) at the Mademoiselle Gray Barriere in Cannes.
Sustainability Initiative
Winner: NES — Nordic Ecological Standard (the Nordics)
This award sought to crown an outstanding single green initiative, demonstrable by results in practice from a film commission, office or production studio/company. The judges looked for an individual initiative — a big idea — that is making a difference to one area or element of the production process, and making it more environmentally friendly with tangible results.
The winning entry provided demonstrable evidence of how their particular initiative, idea or innovation — think Green Screen, Green Film or a carbon calculator — delivered measurable and defined benefits to the environment/community.
The Nordic film and television industry has drawn up the Nordic Ecological Standard (NES) for sustainable production being implemented in all the Nordic countries from 2026. Initiated and developed by the five Nordic countries — Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden — and Nordisk Film & TV Fond, NES aims to significantly reduce the environmental footprint of the audiovisual industry across the territories.
“A great and innovative concept,” noted one judge, while another praised the NES initiative’s “cross-border sustainability”.
Other nominees:
- AssetFlow (From Wrap to Reuse: digitalising circularity with AssetFlow, UK)
- Disney Studios Australia (First studio in Australia to install solar, Australia)
- Evergreen Prisma (LAFC & Dept for Art and Culture Lower Austria, Austria)
- The Fuel Project (Film London & Creative Zero, UK)
- Sustainability Action Plan (New Zealand Film Commission, New Zealand)
- Reel Green™ (BC Film Commission at Creative BC, Canada)
- Wicked: For Good’s ‘Green for Good’ campaign (NBCUniversal, US)
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