With over 15 years working inside the Illinois entertainment industry, we are active members of the production community with direct relationships with the Illinois Film Office, DCASE | Chicago Film Office, Chicago Department of Environment, Illinois Production Alliance, and more. Our goal is to function as a natural extension of your production team.
With Ecofixr, sustainability is built around your workflow, not imposed on top of it.
Our work is based on a simple belief: the film industry has the power to tell stories that shape culture, but production too often generates excessive waste, intense carbon emissions, and missed opportunities for community impact. We believe sustainability on set can be seamless, strategic, and empowering for everyone involved. On and off screen.
Sustainability in film production is often treated as a checklist or compliance requirement.
We see it differently.
Our Midwest roots mean we see sustainability as an opportunity: to strengthen your process, attract more clients, and help solidify work in Illinois for Illinois. We’ve worked the long days, coordinated the departments, and navigated the budget conversations with you, so we understand your process and want to use our skills to maximize your production’s impact and elevate your creative brand.
We focus on the intersection of production efficiency, community resource rescue, and environmental responsibility. By connecting these systems together, sustainability becomes an asset to production rather than a disruption.
Producers and production managers need partners they can rely on.
Ecofixr is committed to delivering professional, polished, and dependable services that make sustainability feel effortless for our clients.
We are a qualified third-party sustainability verification company with direct relationships with the Illinois Film Office. When we say your documentation is audit-ready, it is.
Film productions move fast. Sustainability solutions must move just as fast.
We focus on real-world systems that work on set from resource rescue to clean energy integration so productions can meet ambitious goals without slowing down.
We believe sustainability works best when crews feel engaged, empowered, and proud of the process.
Our role is not to police productions it’s to support them.
Ecofixr integrates into the team as another department on set, helping crews achieve goals while maintaining the pace and creativity of production.
Every production generates resources that can benefit the community.
Food, materials, equipment, and supplies that would normally be discarded can instead support local organizations and reduce environmental strain.
Rescuing these resources is one of the most meaningful parts of our work.
From crew training to free community advocacy events, education runs through everything we do. We stay current on evolving standards and emerging technology because this field moves fast, and we want sustainability to be part of Illinois film culture, not an afterthought. We are committed to help production move from sustainability as compliance to sustainability as innovation and pride.
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Ellen is a Chicago-based producer, production manager, and sustainability consultant with 15 years of experience in film, theater, and live events. Where others saw waste and missed opportunity on set, she built systems; founding Ecofixr to bring practical, production-focused sustainability to the Illinois entertainment industry.
In addition to her producing work, Ellen oversaw a multi-million dollar Covid-19 testing facility for NBCUniversal across Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, and Chicago PD — managing large-scale operations under strict compliance requirements while earning the trust of studio leadership, producers, and crew alike. That experience is the foundation of how Ecofixr operates: precise, dependable, and built for the pace of network productions.
Her work has been recognized by the Chicago Reader, and she has collaborated directly with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events | Chicago Film Office, Chicago Department of Environment, One Earth Collective, IFA Chicago, and others on sustainability and environmental advocacy programming.
Ellen is an active member of the Chicago Sustainability Task Force and Green the Bid, and has worked with clients including Sundance Institute x Chicago, Independent Film Exhibition Conference, and Filmscape Chicago.
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