Take a look at a few films and series that were shot in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown across the globe.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world last year many of the large and small scale industries, institutions, organizations shut their shop to prevent themselves and their employees from the virus and allowed them to work from the confinement of their homes. The film industry across the globe was one such industry that was majorly hit.
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Many actors and filmmakers decided either to indefinitely postpone until the situation turns better and safer to film. Some filmmakers across the world turn this into another opportunity and instead of sitting at home ideally decided to make some interesting films and series from their homes over the highly popular video chat app Zoom and Skype.
Check out a few of them in detail below:
'Social Distance'
Social Distance is an American TV anthology series created by Hilary Weisman Graham and Jenji Kohan that premiered on Netflix in October 2020. The entire series was shot remotely during the quarantine period. It’s an eight-part series, set during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, centres around how families, friends, and couples were forced to cope with the effects of quarantine as well as during the Black Lives movement. Each episode narrates a different story and highlights "the power of the human spirit in the face of uncertainty and isolation," and how technology turned out to be the last resort to stay connected during this difficult time across the globe.
'Songbird'
Songbird coming from the house of Michael Bay, Adam Goodman, Andrew Sugerman and Eben Davidson is a 2020 American dystopian science fiction thriller film based on the coronavirus pandemic. It is said to be the first film to be shot entirely after the shutdown was imposed between July and August in Los Angeles. The film is directed by Adam Mason, who wrote the screenplay with Simon Boyes. The film stars KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Craig Robinson, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, Alexandra Daddario, Paul Walter Hauser and Demi Moore. Songbird was released through premium video on demand in December 2020.
'The Agoraphobics Detective Society'
The Agoraphobics Detective Society is currently being shot from home starring Brian Cox, Claes Bang, and journalist-presenter Mariella Frostrup, among others. Maggie Monteith has an all-female team of writer-directors on board to conceive the idea of the project. The makers also attached the noble idea with the project by sharing the proceedings to the UK and U.S. film and TV freelancers impacted by COVID-19. The eight-episode show will see a distraught group of patient’s coming together to find a renowned expert psychiatrist who disappears without a trace.
'The Gone Game'
The Gone Game is a psychological thriller web series directed by Nikhil Bhat, starring Sanjay Kapoor, Shweta Tripathi, Arjun Mathur, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Rukhsar Rehaman, and Dibyendu Bhattacharya. The series was shot entirely within the confines of all the actors’ homes and directed remotely, during the COVID-19 pandemic in India last year. The show was premiered on Voot in August 2020. The Gone Game is a four-part series and is one of the best examples of quarantine content, the paranoia and unease is the highlight of the plot. The makers are all set to bring back season two owing to its popularity.