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Calling in favors from their global connections, the BC team was then able to produce a unique series of Facebook and Instagram videos featuring such names as mainland auteur Jia Zhangke, Hong Kong's very own Cheuk Cheung and Locarno Film Festival head Lili Hinstin sharing their thoughts on what they've missed during the lockdown.

"We found it has actually resonated with what people are thinking and what they would watch on a proper screen, in the cinema, with all the trappings. It's actually interesting in that it shows that the big-screen experience can't be replicated. We have people who talked to the camera and then we have people like Lili Hinstin who did something that wouldn't look out of place in a (Jean-Luc) Goddard film."