Green Film and WEMW: a partnership for sustainability
January 10, 2025
The 3-day co-production market to be ISO 20121 certified
The next edition of WEMW (January 19-22, 2025) will fully embrace the values of environmental awareness, economic responsibility and social sustainability.
This year at its fifteenth edition, WEMW is a 3-day co-production market that takes place yearly in Trieste (IT) at the end of January during the Trieste Film Festival. Over the past years WEMW has increasingly prioritized a more eco-conscious approach, aiming to implement more sustainable and inclusive solutions in all aspects of the market’s management. Starting in 2025, thanks to the collaboration with Trentino Film Commission and Green Film, WEMW is taking a big step forward and launching a full-scale process to certify the market as a sustainable event within the next three years. Together with Green Film, WEMW improvement programme is also inspired by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The actions will not only be aimed at minimizing waste – including limited printing, plastic-free packaging, reusable set-ups, food surplus donation, recycled or ethically made gadgets and a tailored climate strategy – but also at making WEMW truly inclusive, creating a more accessible market for all participants. Discover more by reading the complete Sustainability Policy.
Amongst the services implemented for the upcoming edition of WEMW, there will be a free Baby Lounge, a new comfortable and safe space for children, designed to promote a healthier work-life balance for the market participants. The lounge will provide professional daily childcare for the WEMW youngest visitors aged 1 to 6, allowing participants to fully engage in the market’s activities.
In addition to the collaboration for obtaining the ISO 20121 certification, the partnership between WEMW, Trentino Film Commission and Green Film also includes Inspirational Gifts: 15 participants of the Ispirational Labs will be offered a consultancy session on green production, with the aim of exploring feasible and effective sustainable practices for their own project, based on the experience of Green Film.
We are thrilled to collaborate with WEMW to build a greener and more inclusive market and to translate our vision into concrete actions. By sharing our progress and findings along the way, we also hope to ignite a real change towards a more environmentally responsible film industry.
Meet Green Film @WEMW: if you will be in Trieste, do not hesitate to contact Linnea Merzagora, Green Film Project Manager, to book a meeting.
