Our Story

TheGreenShot's vision


We work every day to improve the crews' working conditions,  decrease the financial risks,  lighten the administrative load and
reduce the climate impacts of productions.
Across the entire entertainment industry - films, TV series, shorts, commercials, events, festivals, broadcasters and studios.

2017 - The start 

Max - working as supervising location manager on large co-productions - was responsible for multi-million budgets. Yet he lacked reliable, up to date controls to ensure the completion of productions within planned financial envelopes. 


Putting in place his own, ad-hoc solutions, he uncovered the potential for real efficiency gains, identified the mechanisms to deliver these gains through digital tools for the crews and the administrative teams.

30 million people - 300 million tons CO2


This industry employs 30 million people, 1% of the active population. 

It reaches out to 80% of humanity – over 5 billion people watch TV programmes.

And it generates 300 million tons of CO2, close to 1% of the world-wide carbon footprint.

2018 - Think differently!  


Max’s hands on experience gave him a head start to introduce a completely disruptive model. He wanted to lighten the stress levels of the huge workforce through new ways of working.


The result? The first 3-in-1 approach - connect operations, costs and climate management in a single, fluid approach.  Embed sustainability automatically inside production workflows, make it a positive part of the production, an inclusion driver for the teams and an asset to reduce costs.

2019 - Empower the teams 


Max teamed up with Thierry, 30 years of experience in developing highly secure applications. Together, they created the 1st version of TheGreenShot’s mobile and Web app and piloted it on 4 international co-productions.

 

The crew captured data continuously, the departments' heads  and the accountants discovered the benefits of real-time dashboards.


How do you motivate mobile and changing crews to use the app? With a simple and intuitive app that gives back. Real-time salaries, fast approval flows, individual dashboards.

2019 - Tested and approved


Our first tests confirmed the gains.

TheGreenShot delivered benefits to all team members.

It shaved off up to 50% of administrative costs for productions.  it simplified  crew members' lives by delivering an individual dashboard of all their financials across productions.
It decreased the level of risks through increased budget controls. It facilitated early detection of areas of concern.

2020 - Green inside 


In 2020, Max met Catherine, 20 years of sustainability experience in large corporations. He shared  his worries about the wasteful and high climate impact of productions.


This conversation was one of our magical milestones.  Connecting TheGreenShot to external carbon calculators, we added to our operational and financial features the first ever real-time CO2 dashboards.
See the CO2 evolve as it is being generated. And give every crew member, every team, every manager the means to act.

2021 - Transparent and secure


In 2021, Véronique joined the team. A cyber-security engineer for the last 15 years, she is passionate about building security in from the start, and protecting data so that an app can combine transparency with protection. TheGreenShot became fully compliant to the GDPR regulations, the app architecture was enhanced to build in additional security  monitoring processes.

June 2023 - 2 years old and growing!


TheGreenShot launched in June 2021, at the French Cannes Film Festival with Annette, the opening movie and one of our pilot co-productions.


Fast forward to June 2023, TheGreenShot is 2 years' old. When we started, the Covid pandemic was still on-going, the entertainment industry was not yet back to normal. Yet what a ride it has been!


60 European productions trusted us

22 people are now part of the team

5 partners have signed active collaborations

10 awards confirm our innovative solution

6 incredible advisors are helping us grow

2 financial backers became strong supporters

Our dream


We are driven by the need to protect productions from complexity, using our open digital apps to deliver complete workflows that make productions’ lives easier, improve the workforce’s well being and decrease the climate impact by making it cost-efficient and easy to select alternative suppliers and processes.


We build these complete workflows through strong partnerships – working with like-minded organisations that have their own solutions. Uniting solution providers to collaborate so that together, we deliver to customers fluid production workflows with a single subscription mechanism. 


Partnerships are  at the heart of our service offer. With crews working on productions, missions to kick start changes in organisations, on and off-site training programs. 


Our dream? The collaborative production hub, co-owned by all solution providers – working together to remove the pains, delivering the ultimate production workflows to our customers. Driving the digital and climate transition of the entertainment industry.

Working together so that by 2030, environmental friendly productions become the norm and not the exception.

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