Single-use plastics and disposable masks are essential workplace tools right now, and you could argue that environmental sustainability is the last thing we can afford to worry about. And yet, for Anna Kaplan, Impact Producer and Sustainable Screens campaigner, this is an ideal time to rethink processes.
‘Obviously the industry is in survival mode and health and safety are the priorities,’ she says on the phone to Screenhub. She’s talking from semi-lockdown in her home in Melbourne, where she’s been grappling with the joys of homeschooling, as well as some very nimble pivots on a US release strategy for the environmental documentary phenomenon that is Damon Gameau’s 2040.