Two complementary events will run online in June, one screening completed projects and the other pitching packages, both navigating multiple time zones as they avoid on-demand offerings. 

"Other parts of the world are opening up faster than the U.S., and I think we are going to have to be faster and more flexible in where and how we produce," says Brian Beckmann, CFO at Arclight Films, which has several productions — including the disaster thriller Deep Water and the actioner Long Gone Heroes, starring Guy Pearce and Ben Kingsley — on the starting blocks.