New Mexico leads enviro-friendly filmmaking

September 18, 2007 New Mexico initiated a green filmmaking program earlier this year in an effort to educate productions about the use of alternative materials and environmentally friendly practices, and Haggis, who was directing Warner Independent Pictures' "In The Valley of Elah," became one of the first filmmakers to put the program into practice. Because of Haggis' directive, "the production designer spent three months just trying to find materials that were eco-friendly," Haggis confides. Every place we went (to shoot), we brought our own bins for recycling, and then we had to have trucks pick the stuff up.

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