At the end of March 2020, COVID-19 forced many film productions to pause. The pandemic continues to have a huge impact on the film sector. Although many countries and film institutions provide measures in order to help productions continue in safety, the question remains as to what will become of cinema in years to come. We talked at length with Professor Jeremi Szaniawski on the subject COVID-19 and filmmaking. Professor Szaniawski is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has edited, among others, the volumes The Global Auteur: The Politic of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema (with Seung-hoon Jeong, Bloomsbury, 2016) and the forthcoming Fredric Jameson and Film Theory: Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema (with Keith Wagner and Michael Cramer, Rutgers, Rutgers University Press, 2021).

At the end of March 2020, COVID-19 forced many film productions to pause. The pandemic continues to have a huge impact on the film sector. Although many countries and film institutions provide measures in order to help productions continue in safety, the question remains as to what will become of cinema in years to come. We talked at length with Professor Jeremi Szaniawski on the subject COVID-19 and filmmaking. Professor Szaniawski is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has edited, among others, the volumes The Global Auteur: The Politic of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema (with Seung-hoon Jeong, Bloomsbury, 2016) and the forthcoming Fredric Jameson and Film Theory: Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema (with Keith Wagner and Michael Cramer, Rutgers, Rutgers University Press, 2021).