Turn a hundred questions into one honest film.
Sustainability teams arrive with a hundred things they could say. A ten-minute documentary can carry one. This workshop narrows the pile to a single bounded story — then writes a treatment that can't hide behind a slogan.
- One place.
- One person.
- One change.
- One test.
A real site, someone responsible for it, an observable change underway, and evidence that could show whether it worked.
Targets aren't achievements. Offsets aren't cuts. One clean site isn't a clean company. The engine keeps a real limitation and a credible challenge in every treatment it produces.
How the workshop narrows
Cluster, keep everything
Group the raw questions into themes. Nothing is deleted — what you don't use is parked in view, not thrown away.
Make them filmable
Turn clusters into candidates: a person, a place you can reach, a change underway, an obstacle, evidence you could check.
Reject what you can't film
No access, no observable action, or no checkable evidence — it's out. Survivors score on human stakes and real uncertainty.
Force one spine
One question becomes the film's spine; at most three support it. The rest are parked, on the record.
Shape the ten minutes
A fixed three-act arc — why change, what makes it hard, what changed and what's still unresolved.
“Can the engineer running this factory replace gas-fired heat without stopping production?”
That's a spine. Cost, technology and accounting support it; global energy policy does not — so it gets parked. See the workshop pick it, or read the treatment it writes.