The film was scheduled to open in an East Village theater before the coronavirus outbreak closed the city’s cinemas. Instead, “Tape” will screen online at 7 p.m. on Thursday, followed by screenings at the same time every evening through April 9. Each screening will be followed by an online panel discussion; the creators hope to replicate the experience of being together in a theater.

“Tape” is based on the account of an actress, Annarosa Mudd, who works with Ms. Kampmeier and helped turn her story into the film. She also joined the cast — not to play the actress, but to portray a former victim-turned-avenger who is stalking the agent.

Ms. Mudd, 35, said in an interview that she met Mr. St. Surin in 2010 through Casting Networks, a site for actors seeking exposure. “I am eager to learn and to develop myself into a professional,” she wrote in an email exchange with the man who went by “Lex” that she shared with The New York Times.

She was invited to audition for a reality show about young actors and met Mr. St. Surin at a rehearsal space near Astor Place in Manhattan. “He seemed like the people you meet when you do that,” she said. “He knew how to create a dialogue that created support and comfort.”

She was told she wasn’t selected for the show, and the following day, she received an email from Mr. St. Surin: “Your potential was impeded by your fear, nervousness and lack of preparation,” he wrote, before offering to place her in his “protégé program.”

“As a protégé you will have a certain set of responsibilities to me as your patron,” he wrote, according to the emails provided by Ms. Mudd. He offered to help her “expression and body articulation” in a screen test that would include “a love-scene and a fight-scene.”

She agreed. The two met at an apartment in Downtown Brooklyn in March 2010. Together, they acted from a script about a husband and wife facing hard times.