Our friends Filmmakers for Future based in Germany are working to make ALL genres of filmmaking more sustainable by raising awareness and knowledge exchange. You can sign their statement to show solidarity and the growing numbers of people wanting to help speed up this shift:

We are #Filmmakers because we love to tell stories. We are #forFuture , so we don’t become the story. More than 1,000 filmmakers from around the world have already joined our cause and signed our statement. You want to get involved as well? Look no further!
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Filmmakers for Future continues to support the demands of @FridayforFuture and call on all #filmmaker |s to take part in the #GlobalClimateStrike !
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The point is really that any gun on any set is treated as if it is loaded. For rehearsals they have plastic guns. The reports that a real gun was used during a rehearsal and fired by a cast member is a perfect example of the blatant disregard for crew health and safety IATSE // #IASolidarity

Because yes, we DO NOT need real guns on set. They use real guns because it’s much more expensive to do gun barrel explosion and firing effects with post-production CGI. Every single threat to our health and safety is another way they maximize profit margins #IASolidarity

And yes often time they would use the more dangerous/louder half loads in guns for the larger explosive effect from the barrel. They would do that, the more dangerous thing, because it’s much *cheaper* than adding that effect with CGI

Has never been a single moment that I didn’t trust my fellow IATSE // #IASolidarity members in the Special FX department with my life. They would set up building-size explosions right next to us. I trust them with my life. And yet ANYONE I trust can make a mistake while working 12-14+ hours

And guess what happens when they do scenes with guns? Every take they have to reset the guns. Rushing the overworked and exhausted one or two IATSE // #IASolidarity armorers working 12-14+ hour days to reload the guns as fast as possible, where they hand them off to.. actors with no training

A half load “blank” in a movie set prop gun(which are REAL GUNS!) can easily kill you if fired within five feet. Our job as grips was often to protect the camera operator from the literal explosive charge coming at them.

There was one night on The Punisher when the armorer(also working 12-14+ hours a day) was handing out like thirty fully loaded automatic rifles with “blanks” and i was like wow we have to trust all of these strangers with our lives #IASolidarity

I have been on many sets with LOTS of guns shooting “blanks”. They don’t shoot out projectiles, but they DO shoot out an explosive force depending on “load” (1/2 load is strongest, 1/4 load, “NY load”).

MANY times I saw the more dangerous/deadly (and LOUD) 1/2 load used

Filmmakers for Future continues to support the demands of Fridays for Future and call on all filmmakers to take part in the strike!
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#uprootthesystem #crew4climate #filmmakers4future #filmstrike4climate Filmmakers for Future

— GERMANY / BERLIN —
Join us tomorrow at Brandenburger Gate at 12 noon.
You find all kind of filmmakers under the inflatable Wale with other „for Future“-Groups like Parents, Architects, Grandmothers and more!
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We continue to support the demands of Fridays For Future and call on all filmmakers to join the strike! Join us!
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Once again, a global climate strike by Fridays For Future together with a broad alliance
Find out where to strike and what we are demanding at: fridaysforfuture.org/October22/
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@gerechtigkeitjetzt Together For Future 🌍 Fridays for Future Berlin

Ecosocialist Alliance to Protest at COP26 – Ecosocialism not Extinction londongreenleft.blogspot.com/2021/09/ecosoc… #greenparty #ecosocialism #climateaction #climatecrisis #climateemergency #climatestrike #extinctionrebellion #socialism #capitalism #anticapitalist #greennewdeal #COP26 #degrowth

FILM STRIKE FOR CLIMATE
COP26
NOVEMBER 6TH
We are inviting industry members to create an internationalist display of honesty and solidarity to our own industry, world leaders and the rest of the globe during COP in London and Bristol. . . .
More info @
FilmStrikeforClimate.org/projects

We’ve got our tickets to #SPF21 ! Do you?! We can’t wait for a week of panels, roundtables, workshops & networking w/ some of the best (and greenest!) in the industry @SPF_Vancouver. See you there!
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