Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Removing single-use plastics from Hollywood sets is important to help address plastic pollution, but if storylines continue to be littered with plastics we are missing a critical opportunity for societal awareness and transformative change. Entertainment is a powerful way to engage audiences on the issue, and while we’re seeing more references to the impacts of plastics on human health, animals, and the ocean in film and television, it’s not enough. So how do we ensure our stories set the scene for a plastic-free future without turning our favorite films and shows into a PSA on plastics?
During the September 14 webinar, we discussed tips and tools to help scriptwriters seamlessly craft plastic-free and plastic-aware worlds, and talked about the opportunities and challenges of going plastic free from the start—in the script.
PANELISTS
Scott Z. Burns, one of the producers of An Inconvenient Truth, and the screenwriter behind Contagion and AppleTV+’s upcoming Extrapolations
Emily Gallagher & Austin Elston, Fishtown Films’ creative team behind the first ever zero-waste feature film “Citywide”
@fishtownfilms
MODERATOR
Kate Folb, Director of Hollywood, Health & Society
hollywoodhealthandsociety.org
To learn more, please visit:
plasticpollutioncoalition.org/flipthescript
Removing single-use plastics from Hollywood sets is important to help address plastic pollution, but if storylines continue to be littered with plastics we are missing a critical opportunity for societal awareness and transformative change. Entertainment is a powerful way to engage audiences on the issue, and while we’re seeing more references to the impacts of plastics on human health, animals, and the ocean in film and television, it’s not enough. So how do we ensure our stories set the scene for a plastic-free future without turning our favorite films and shows into a PSA on plastics?
During the September 14 webinar, we discussed tips and tools to help scriptwriters seamlessly craft plastic-free and plastic-aware worlds, and talked about the opportunities and challenges of going plastic free from the start—in the script.
PANELISTS
Scott Z. Burns, one of the producers of An Inconvenient Truth, and the screenwriter behind Contagion and AppleTV+’s upcoming Extrapolations
Emily Gallagher & Austin Elston, Fishtown Films’ creative team behind the first ever zero-waste feature film “Citywide”
@fishtownfilms
MODERATOR
Kate Folb, Director of Hollywood, Health & Society
hollywoodhealthandsociety.org
To learn more, please visit:
plasticpollutioncoalition.org/flipthescript
