Sustainable cities and their effects on the cinema industry

In the effort to fight climate change, sustainable city models are necessary to reduce our carbon footprint. This actually has some effects on the cinema industry, the bigger studios can reach ridiculous scale, the biggest one right now, Hengdian World studios in china, has 13 filming bases which add up to 330 ha and building areas that occupy almost 500 000 square meter[1]. Every scene shot uses up massive amounts of electricity because of the lighting effects, camera and other various other equipment needed to shoot a movie. In the case of Hengdian studios, the studio itself is as big as a…