Work in the film industry? Tell us how coronavirus has affected you

Releases are being cancelled, shoots scrapped and ticket sales are in free fall. But what's the human cost? We want to hear from people on the frontline of the industry

It's becoming increasingly clear that most sectors have not faced a crisis in modern times remotely on the scale of coronavirus. The threat it poses to most businesses, the people employed by them and the economies propped up by them, it hard to underestimate.

Film is no exception. Already, the impact of widespread cinema closures around the globe, combined with endless release and event postponements or cancellations, as well as production mayhem, is estimated to cost the industry more than $20bn. Given that this figure was $5bn a week before, it seems safe to assume it's at the conservative end.