With the struggling U.S. indie film sector deeply impacted by the COVID 19-era industry shutdown, being without Coronavirus insurance cover needed to return to production, filmmakers at the Toronto Film Festival were told to look overseas for solutions. "There can be in a moment of crisis a tendency to look inwards and build barriers and to think about local first.
But this is a point where we need to look internationally with renewed focus," Neil Peplow, director of international at the British Film Institute, told a virtual panel on film financing during the pandemic.
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