Cannes, Hollywood, Venice – we’ve all seen the red carpet but at the University of East Anglia next week, three student movie stars will walk along a green carpet of real turf as they take their seats for the premiere of the Carbon Cutters documentary. Carbon Connections, the low carbon investment body based at the University of East Anglia, will premiere the Carbon Cutters documentary from 6pm at the UEA Studio on Wednesday 8th October. The prestigious event is almost sold out as local businesses and academics have rushed to secure their places.

The film records the efforts of three year-in-industry students as they audit and reduce the carbon footprints of three Norwich companies. Aimee Etheridge, Jason Galloway and Alison Morris spent the last year at Bayer Crop Science, UCP Zeller and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital respectively and used the knowledge gained in their environmental sciences degree to advise how those organisations could reduce their energy consumption and ultimately their energy bill.

The three stars will traverse the green carpet on the way into the venue, which will be removed and planted on the UEA campus after the event. Following the screening there will be Q&A session for attending organisations to find out more about the year-in-industry programme as well as learning simple steps to reduce energy consumption in the workplace. Finally there will be a networking drinks reception at which Adnams’ low carbon beer East Green will be served.

The experience of Adnams working with CRed to monitor the carbon footprint of beer production provided the inspiration for the Carbon Cutters documentary.

Anybody wishing to attend the premiere should contact Matt Dolan through m.dolan@uea.ac.uk or 01603 591358.