Inarguably among the industries whose work forces have been rendered unemployed amid the ongoing pandemic, the entertainment industry has a lot riding on its back. Eager to resume work on its productions, cine bodies from across the globe hopped aboard a Zoom call on May 11 to set standard operating procedures (SOP) that will be in place once shooting resumes.

Joint secretary and chairperson of CINTAA's outreach committee, Amit Behl, who represented India at the conference that saw delegates from America and the UK, says the meeting was vital owing to the interactive nature of filming. "Big countries, like India, will have to adhere to the sops since we go abroad to shoot, and foreign productions come here. We have to get a global handshake before we start filming. If a second spike happens, we must be prepared. We want to resume filming, but not at the cost of lives," Behl tells mid-day of the interaction that had 20 countries participate in it.