Steve Smith is Picture Zero’s lead sustainability adviser. He is also a BAFTA award-winning director who’s helped create some of the UK’s most popular television programmes. Steve is the former Chair of Directors UK and a former non-executive director of Elstree Film Studios where he chaired the studios Net Zero committee. In 2023... Read More

Steve Smith is Picture Zero’s lead sustainability adviser. He is also a BAFTA award-winning director who’s helped create some of the UK’s most popular television programmes. Steve is the former Chair of Directors UK and a former non-executive director of Elstree Film Studios where he chaired the studios Net Zero committee. In 2023, Steve project managed the Screen New Deal Transformation Plan for Wales and oversaw the first two years of the Studio Sustainability Standard for BAFTA albert.
 
Steve believes passionately that culture is a powerful force for galvanising climate action and challenging high-carbon lifestyles. To that end, in 2019 he co-founded Picture Zero with a dedication to making the film and TV sector a zero-carbon, zero-waste industry, integrating sustainability into storytelling. He executive produced the documentary The People Vs Climate Change broadcast on BBC Two after COP 26 in November 2021. www.picturezero.com
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