Melanie Dicks

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About Melanie Dicks

Melanie is a film producer, Sustainability and Production Consultant, who for over a decade has championed the drive towards a carbon neutral filming industry - advising crew, production companies and policy makers globally on environmental sustainability, innovation, education and supply chain management. She is the Co-founder at Greenshoot and led on the design and implementation of the online platform with industry producers, stakeholders and crew. To date Green Screen has been used in 24 countries and has reached over crew. About Fingerprint Content: Founded by Melanie Dicks, Jess Hines, Lia Walton, and former Secretary of State John Kerry, Fingerprint Content was created with a clear and urgent mission: to spark change in the way we portray social issues on the screen. We empower the world's most exciting storytellers to bring their deeply-held passions to life; exploring inequality, race and gender, the power of big business, and, most particularly, climate change, where we encounter all these issues. By engaging audiences with the compelling stories of this disruptive time, we aim to inspire, organise and focus the conversation across film, TV and digital platforms. Championing new voices and script discovery, with a focus on stories that deal with challenging subjects in engaging ways, we create bespoke production and distribution partnerships for each project to reach a global audience. About Greenshoot: Melanie co-founded the independent sustainability consultancy in 2009, with a team of senior industry colleagues to support the filming industries move towards carbon neutrality. The first to market Greenshoot, an award-winning consultancy places environmental sustainability at the heart of film production & the creative process on all media platforms for all budgets.* CSR * Social and Environmental Strategy * Stakeholder & Community Engagement * Compliance & environmental legislation * Carbon footprint calculation * Training & Education programmes * Ethical supply chain strategy * Community legacy * ISO 14001, BS 8909 compliant Clients partners & collaborators worked and partnered with include: Film London, Left Bank Pictures, BFI, Sky, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Hat Trick, Avalon, Hammer, Film London and Sony SPE and Warp Films.