Steve Smith

BAFTA award-winning filmmaker

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. For the past two years he has overseen the Screen New Deal Transformation Plan for Wales and 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. One of Picture Zero’s first projects was the BBC Two documentary The People Vs Climate Change.

Picture Zero provides sustainable production and editorial storytelling support to the screen sector and work across a broad range of productions and content types – from feature film and HETV, to cookery programming and studio-based entertainment shows. We are regularly seeing emissions reductions of up to 50% in comparison to previous series of the productions we’re supporting.