Spanner Films - Climate change

PIE NET ZERO launches today

franny — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:50:15 +0000

Today we launch our new short film, PIE NET ZERO

500 million people on the case?

sylvia — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:05:52 +0000

The last ever day filming Crude didn't start too well for poor Lizzie as the hire car she picked up yesterday developed a flat tyre and she spent half the night organising tow trucks. Then had to get up at 5.30am to pick me and new soundman Ben up to drive to Bedford for the result of Piers's three-year battle to get planning permission for his latest windfarm.

A coherent script emerges

sylvia — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:00:00 +0000

After three very long days and nights bashing together all the ideas into a coherent script, we stocked up on pastries and got everyone into the same room for a read-through. Mark was very convincing as the geeky teenage know-it-all but Emily wasn't so keen on her slightly wimpy teenage girl (maybe should swop those roles over. can't have the girl being feeble).

Spices then gold now oil next water

sylvia — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:54:49 +0000

Rain, Cameras, Action....

Photograph: Charlotte Rushton

"Scriptwriting for Beginners"

sylvia — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:38:50 +0000

Am totally stuck on the animation script, so decided to try to do something - anything - positive and cleaned up three years of cat shit from my roof. Then started clearing the overgrown ivy with the thought of planting some veg up there. But as soon as the ivy went I could see a bloody great big crack in the wall.

Money and website solved in one

sylvia — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:53:41 +0000

Slightly frightening that Crude pal Mark Lynas has dreamt up, researched, written and published a book, 'Six Degrees', all within the Crude timescale. Lizzie and I went to the launch in a cold church hall in Oxford tonight. Mark was doing one of his favourite slide-show talk presentation things - think Al Gore, but way bleaker - which I've now seen plenty of times, but never fails to scare the bejeezus out of me.

Renewed our vows

sylvia — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:41:44 +0000

Lizzie and I have made up. She agrees that "a change in attitude is needed". And I said that it was the panic of steering the whole Crude ship on my own for two weeks that caused me to overreact (was that an apology?). Anyhow, we've renewed our vows to get the fucker finished.

A good thought from the Guardian. Think there may be the replacement Crude title somewhere in the
idea of "like there is no tomorrow":

So much for my last ever flight

sylvia — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:00:31 +0000

Jeh with mockup planes at Airbus in Toulouse

Photograph: Patrick Igonet

Dropped down dead when he heard the news

sylvia — Tue, 15 May 2007 21:28:58 +0000

Franny, and our fixer, Khulood, interviewing Iraqi widows on the streets on Amman<

The heatwave continues

sylvia — Tue, 15 May 2007 20:52:20 +0000

The heatwave continues.

London's response: buy more air conditioners.

I've spent the last five days lying on the floor with High Tide Mark, doing pilates (him), eating ice lollies (me) and both of us trying not to turn the electric fan on (seems inappropriate somehow).

We are attempting to nail all the arguments/positions/key points to include. Extremely glad we decided to, as Mark has demolished many of my favourite ideas. (The Sweden no-oil-after-2030 is a red herring, apparently.)