Oct 27, 202641 minS3
This week on The Tie-In, Zena sits down with Kent Hayward, a filmmaker, author of Green Filmmaking (Routledge, 2025), professor of production at California State University Long Beach, and co-founder and Vice-Chair of...
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Behind the scenes, sustainability in action. Entrepreneurs Zena Harris and Mark Rabin talk shop with filmmakers, event producers, and entertainment professionals from around the world in a quest to amplify the voices of people who are innovating, leveraging their influence, connecting ideas, and inspiring crews to make the entertainment we love more sustainable.
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What is The Tie-In about?
Behind the scenes, sustainability in action. Entrepreneurs Zena Harris and Mark Rabin talk shop with filmmakers, event producers, and entertainment professionals from around the world in a quest to amplify the voices of people who are innovating, leveraging their influence, connecting ideas, and inspiring crews to make the entertainment we love more sustainable.
What has The Tie-In covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Green Filmmaking in Film School: Teaching Sustainable Production, Climate Storytelling & Battery Power on Student Sets | Kent Hayward, Green Film School Alliance" (27 October 2026, 41 minutes), "Inside the Little People Social Club: Designing a New York Members Club for Everyone, the Rise of Social Clubs & a Solar-Powered Rom-Com | Jonathan Bricklin, SPIN & LPSC" (20 October 2026, 34 minutes), and "How Certified Compostable Packaging Gets Back to the Soil: Composting Access, Packaging Regulations & Closing the Loop | Elly Ventura, World Centric" (13 October 2026, 42 minutes).
How often does The Tie-In publish?
The Tie-In publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 25 minutes.
How hard is it to get booked on The Tie-In?
Booking probability for The Tie-In is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Tie-In requires a Pod Score of 82 or higher. The Tie-In's contact route on record: verified email.
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The strongest fits for The Tie-In are Film & Video. The Tie-In has a business audience.
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Oct 20, 202634 minS3This week on The Tie-In, Zena and Mark sit down with Jonathan Bricklin: an entrepreneur, filmmaker, writer, and co-founder of SPIN ping-pong social clubs and the Little People Social Club (LPSC), opening in Lower...
Oct 13, 202642 minS3This week on The Tie-In, Zena sits down with Elly Ventura, Manager of Circularity & Customer Engagement at World Centric and a US Composting Council Certified Composting Professional, to talk about what it takes to get...
Oct 6, 202637 minS3This week on The Tie-In, Mark and Zena catch up with returning guest Kerri Coombs, former gaffer, longtime energy consultant, and now tool designer at the GreenShot, about GridPro, the free power-planning app she built...
- Sep 29, 202630 minS3
What does sustainability actually look like backstage on Broadway? Molly Braverman, Executive Director of the Broadway Green Alliance, joins Zena and Mark to break down how theatre's culture of resourcefulness and reuse...
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- Sep 22, 202646 minS3
What if the most powerful tool for teaching regenerative agriculture wasn't a documentary, but a love triangle? Kelsey Crane, debut author of The Vanishing (Book One of The Exiles series) and a certified permaculturist...
- Sep 15, 20268 minS3
️ Zena Harris and Mark Rabin are back! Catching up on what's been on their minds, from AI's growing role in daily work to wildfire season out West. WHAT'S IN THIS EPISODE: — Mark's summer in British Columbia, powering...
- Sep 8, 202642 minS3
This week on The Tie-In, we're here with Brandon Geller, Director of Sustainability for Quixote and Sunset Studios (part of Hudson Pacific Properties' portfolio), where he oversees sustainability across facilities...
- Sep 1, 20261h 2mS3
Recorded live at Pacific Northwest Climate Week, Zena Harris is joined by climate influence strategist Andrea Learned, host of Name & Fame, for a conversation on where film and TV production and city government actually...
- Aug 25, 202612 minS3
What does climate storytelling actually look like when it's done right? Not a green campaign or a lecture, but a reusable water bottle sitting on a table in a Scandinavian film. A farmer's daughter in a Hindi love story...
- Aug 18, 202613 minS3
In this Best Of excerpt, Alex and Allison, co-chairs of IATSE Local 600's Sustainability Committee, break down how the camera department is tackling waste before it becomes waste — from a year-round e-waste drop-off in...
- Aug 11, 202612 minS3
Tanner Watt, Director of Partnerships at Reverb, breaks down the Music Decarbonization Project — the campaign that took Luck Reunion from diesel generators to full battery power in three years, and the model Reverb now...
- Aug 4, 202616 minS3
In this Best Of excerpt, Neel Vasavada, founder and CEO of Overdrive Energy Solutions, gets honest about the one real failure in 50+ events, the 99.9% uptime record that followed it, and why he thinks backing up a...
- Jul 28, 202616 minS3
Hans Dayal is a local fixture in the Vancouver film production scene, and one of the earliest voices building the actual business case for sustainable power on set. In this Best Of The Tie-In episode, he breaks down...
- Jul 21, 202618 minS3
What if you could build one set — and use it for three different shows? Emmy Award-winning production designer Adam Rowe did exactly that. In this Best Of clip from The Tie In, Adam walks through the real-world case...
- Jul 14, 202612 minS3
Dr. Ryan Wartena — PhD electrochemical engineer and battery innovator — joins Mark and Zena on The Tie-In to break down the clean energy framework any production can use today. This Best Of episode covers Ryan's...
- Jul 7, 202615 minS3
What does it actually take to eliminate diesel generators from one of the world's largest music festivals — not as a statement, but as a business decision that saves money? Ken Deans has been the power and production...
- Jun 30, 202616 minS3
Before Hollywood Trucks announced their multi-year deal with NBCUniversal, before the Ecoluxe trailers were deployed on Amazon and Universal productions, Andre Champagne sat down with The Tie In live at the Sustainable...
- Jun 23, 202612 minS3
<p>David Sinfield is one of the most in-demand gaffers in the world and co-founder of Green Voltage, a UK-based battery power rental company serving major film productions. In this episode, he breaks down how...
- Jun 23, 202612 minS3
David Sinfield is one of the most in-demand gaffers in the world and co-founder of Green Voltage, a UK-based battery power rental company serving major film productions. In this episode, he breaks down how...
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