6:30pm: Pre-event socialising and networking

A cash bar will be available for refreshments.

7:00pm: Event begins

8:30pm: Event ends

Speakers:

Lucian Msamati is a SAG award-winning actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in theatre, film, television and radio. His notable screen roles include Salladhor Saan in the HBO series Game of Thrones, J.L.B. Matekoni in the BBC/HBO adaptation of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, David Runihura in the Netflix/BBC thriller Black Earth Rising, Ed Dumani in the Sky/AMC series Gangs of London and Cardinal Adeyemi in Conclave.

Will Attenborough is an actor (The Outpost, Dunkirk, Our Girl) and activist, who co-founded the Green Rider campaign. Green Rider empowers actors and screen workers to collaborate in finding solutions to the climate crisis, moving the industry away from promoting high consumption and instead modelling a greener and fairer way of working. Will has also run successful divest-invest campaigns with the Mayor of London and Equity, bringing their pension funds out of fossil fuels and into climate solutions. Until recently, he was UK climate finance strategist for Insure our Future, a campaign for major insurance companies to support cleaner and healthier energy systems.

Kiren Dhadwal is a TV consultant working across the scripted slate for content developer Climate Spring. She is also a Story Producer with over a decade of experience in TV drama, working on shows for Sky, Disney, Channel 4, and the BBC. Passionate about championing writers from underrepresented backgrounds she helps them tell stories for social and environmental change. Kiren also teaches yoga, encouraging healing while doing the work.

Mark Donne is a writer, producer & long term collaborator with Massive Attack. In 2019, he and Robert Del Naja created ‘ACT 1.5’ – an initiative to decarbonise major live music productions at a rate compatible with the Paris Agreement. Their festival in Bristol last year was attended by 32,000 people and broke all world records for producing the lowest ever carbon emissions. This year, Mark spearheaded the creation of the world’s first ‘UN Accelerator City’ in Liverpool, pioneering clean, green production of film, TV and music.

Mandy Cayford is a Lead Consultant at Picture Zero, one of the UK’s biggest sustainable production consultancies for the creative industries. After a long career in broadcast television production, she now advises tv productions and feature films how to produce content more sustainably both on and off screen, working with major UK and US broadcasters and studios including NBCUniversal, BBC, C4 and Sky.  Picture Zero implemented the Green Rider during the pilot phase on Gangs of London, Funny Woman, Wolf Hall, and Strike.  Mandy is currently working on S3 of The Capture, where Holliday Grainger has a Green Rider Handshake.