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Tilly Ashton
Severn Screen
Production Sustainability Advisor
Speaker Biography
Tilly’s background is in PR, campaign management and journalism, working within the broad field of sustainability, She has moved into coordination roles in recent years and has spent the last few years working in film production, aiming to encourage and initiate better sustainable working practices.
Having worked as Production Sustainability Advisor on the Netflix feature film Havoc (Severn Screen/XYZ Films) during 2021, Tilly then coordinated a Ffilm Cymru/ Clwstwr funded project (‘Maximising Havoc’) for Severn Screen as part of the Green Cymru Challenge Fund. This project highlights the environmental challenges, successes and opportunities for the future identified while making this film.
More recently, Tilly has been teaching Sustainable Production and Planet Placement/Editorial courses for BAFTA albert, as well as undertaking consultancy projects. Tilly is currently working for Severn Screen in Cardiff as their Production Sustainability Advisor.
Tilly lives with her four teenage children in the Wye Valley in South Wales. Raising her family in this beautiful landscape serves as daily motivation to make a positive difference in a challenging and exciting world, finding creative solutions in the workplace and in wider society to tackle the climate emergency and inspire others to embrace a vision for a cleaner, healthier, more sustainable world in the future.