L.A. Film Festival to get local food, biodiesel

Last year, the Los Angeles Film Festival had a "Green Day," showcasing 50 short eco-films and lining a block in Westwood with a few green booths (photo above). This year, the festival has declared its plans to incorporate environmentalism into more aspects of its festivities, happening June 19-29.

Most impressively, the festival is supporting local food: "catering will use organically-grown produce purchased from local farms within a 150-mile radius of Los Angeles," announces the press release -- though exactly how much of the food will be local isn't specified. The festival will also use biodiesel-fueled generators.

Aside from those, the steps are rather unremarkable things to be sending out a press release about, in the vein of "We'll use recycled paper -- then recycle it! Also, we'll buy carbon offsets!"

Still, the greening's a step forward for the film and television industry, which is known as the second largest contributor of criteria air pollutants in the L.A. metro area. SoCal film festivals' efforts to go green is something I noted last year, when all of them started sending out press releases about how they plan to include an eco-themed film or two. Hopefully these efforts will get darker green each year.

Photo by Siel

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