UnArchive Green

UnArchive Found Footage Fest and AAMOD – Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico ETS adopt and promote environmental and social sustainability right from the cinema they collect, preserve and narrate, to the reuse of whose images the idea of recycling and ecology are inherent, as well as creativity.

AFIC (Association of Italian Film Festivals) has developed the Green Festival Guidelines, which indicate some good practices, which the Festival has tried to follow.

 

SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY

We raise awareness of staff, guests and audiences about the festival’s desire to promote sustainable forms of mobility for the enjoyment of the event. All UnArchive Found Footage Fest locations are min. 400 m and max. 1 km apart, allowing people to get around on foot or with bicycles, scooters, and shared electric vehicles.

On the site and within the press materials we present a map with the festival venues, all public transportation lines (metro, trains, streetcars, buses) that reach them and their nearest stops. Specifically on the site, we highlight all the ride-sharing apps that operate in Rome.

 

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY CONSUMPTION

Archives staff and workers are committed to adopting behaviors aimed at maximum energy conservation.

 

PRINTING MATERIALS

To avoid paper waste, employees and staff are urged to reduce the printing of materials, favoring electronic format, and providing guests, audiences and visitors with the most convenient and quickest ways to have access to digital materials by affixing QR codes at festival venues and throughout its merchandise.

All materials are printed front and back on certified environmentally sustainable paper.

The promotion campaign is based on online activity, through the website, social media, online press communication, and distribution of targeted printed materials in a few strategic locations.

Some of the materials are made only in digital format when printing is not deemed necessary.

 

WASTE MANAGEMENT

UnArchive Found Footage Fest commits to reducing waste generation as much as possible. With this in mind, among our merchandise, we are offering a water bottle with a QR Code attached from which you can download the I Nasoni di Roma app where you can find a map indicating the location of all the public water fountains (in Roman parlance, the Nasoni of the name) in the city. In Rome, there are 2,500 and, in the Trastevere area where all the festival locations are located, 10.

We generally avoid the use of plastics and encourage the use of water bottles and pitchers for all events that include speakers.

 

HOSPITALITY

Guests are encouraged to choose the most environmentally friendly option for their travels, particularly to prefer rail to air, for those trips that allow it.

Preference is given to accommodations that demonstrate attention to sustainability, located within a short distance of the festival venues. The main facility that accommodates guests, Casa San Giuseppe, is located less than 40 m from the Intrastevere Cinema, where most of the festival events take place.

 

FOOD SUSTAINABILITY

The festival’s buffets and guest corners offer locally grown, zero-mile foods and offer a vegan and/or vegetarian alternative at each meal. In addition to guests, the corner is also available in the same manner for festival staff.

 

ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURE AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

Found footage cinema is, in the happy definition given to it by our artistic director Marco Bertozzi, in all its meanings-artistic, ideological, political, aesthetic and not least ecological-Recycled Cinema.

In general, much of the content of the films presented at the festival helps to raise awareness of environmental issues and the need for action for sustainability, demonstrating that the environmental dimension goes hand in hand with the social dimension.

All festival locations are barrier-free and accessible to people with disabilities and special needs. In addition, they have a management system for workplace safety and worker health.

All initiatives promoted within the festival and by AAMOD are inclusive, promoting gender equality and full participation, including autonomous enjoyment, safety, comfort and well-being. At the same time, in all the works, sections and team structure in which UnArchive is divided, gender equality and the most universal inclusiveness are found, with dedicated moments of reflection within the program.

The festival enhances young talents, proposing in all its competitive and non-competitive sections, works made by authors under 35 and dedicating an entire section to works from Italian and European educational backgrounds; and involving a trans-generational staff in the organization.

There are many actions aimed at enhancing the area. Specifically, the staff is always available to recommend specific destinations to visit depending on the guests’ interests. The location of the festival in the heart of Rome and in close proximity to the historic center then offers the possibility of visiting the city in the ways indicated as in point 1.

 

The staff of UnArchive Found Footage Fest