The 2020 Sonscreen Film Festival was on track to be held with new partner CoLab on April 2-5, 2020. But those plans changed the second week of March as novel coronavirus disease closures caused the North American Division (NAD) to cancel the festival that was to be hosted at the Loma Linda University Church in California. By April 13, after weeks filled with long hours reorganizing, shuffling, and creating, the festival moved online. It became the first NAD event to successfully occupy virtual space over a week-long period. More than 250 “attended” the film festival—watching film blocks, sending Instagram photos, and engaging in a question and answer segment through film comment sections.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://spectrummagazine.org/news/2020/sonscreen-film-festival-2020-goes-virtual