tayarisha poe, whose first film selah and the spades is rleased on amazon, thinks it is time to rethinklways necessary. whether there's a pandemic or not, we need to be rethinking how we are talking about distributing films and i wanted to make sure i was putting something out that as many people could see as possible, no matter where they were, no matter if they are watching it on the phone or computer, it doesn't matter to me, i just want people to have access to stories. nevertheless, most filmmakers aspire to one day making a big box office movie on a big screen. it's uncertain times for blockbusters such as mulan, wonder woman 1984, and black widow, all directed by women with multimillion—dollar budgets, pushed back to later this year when perhaps there'll be a cinema audience again. even now, the hopes of so many women to have their moment in the spotlight could be taken away in this seismic year. women in the film business have been quite busy, despite the pandemic, rising to the challenge. from his living room in north london, matt floyd has been surveying the activities of thre