We previously reported that producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin Macdonald (State of Play, Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland) teamed up with YouTube to create a film described as being the first user-generated feature length documentary.
The film is called Life in a Day and it incorporates footage shot YouTube users from all over the world. The film incorporates about 4,600 hours of footage submitted by YouTube users from 192 countries, 80,000 clips created on 500 cameras distributed to “remote areas of the world” on one single day — July 24th 2010. Macdonald took all of this footage and compiled it into a feature film.
Read the full press release below for all the the details:
YouTube has announced the premiere of director Kevin Macdonald's Life in a Day and that the film will stream live twice online:
Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (State of Play, Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void...
The film is called Life in a Day and it incorporates footage shot YouTube users from all over the world. The film incorporates about 4,600 hours of footage submitted by YouTube users from 192 countries, 80,000 clips created on 500 cameras distributed to “remote areas of the world” on one single day — July 24th 2010. Macdonald took all of this footage and compiled it into a feature film.
Read the full press release below for all the the details:
YouTube has announced the premiere of director Kevin Macdonald's Life in a Day and that the film will stream live twice online:
Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (State of Play, Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void...
- 1/6/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
We've previously told you about [1] a documentary from producer Ridley Scott, director Kevin Macdonald (helmer of State of Play, Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland) titled Life in A Day. The movie is set to premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and is being billed as "the first user-generated feature-length documentary." The film incorporates about 4,600 hours of footage submitted by YouTube users from 192 countries, 80,000 clips created on 500 cameras distributed to "remote areas of the world" on one single day -- July 24th 2010. They have announced that "Contributors whose submissions were chosen are credited as co-directors, and 26 of them have been invited to attend the world premiere of the film on Thursday, January 27, as part of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival." But more importantly, the film will be live streamed on youtube.com/lifeinaday at 6pm mt, for those of you who want to see it before the movie is released in select theaters,...
- 1/6/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Academy Award-winning director Director Kevin Macdonald (State of Play, Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void ) set out to create the world’s largest user-generated film compiled from 4,500 hours of footage sent in from 192 countries, with each selected contributor credited as a co-director. The landmark film, culled from 80,000 video submissions, is intended as a cinematic experiment to capture life around the world in a single day. Now 26 of these contributors have been invited to attend the world premiere of Life in a Day on January 27th as part of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The 26 contributors invited to attend the premiere span the globe from Egypt to the Ukraine. Their film clips capture a wide array of life experiences, including a Korean man who has been cycling the world for nine years, a young mother battling cancer, and a Russian free-runner making Moscow his playground.
The premiere will be streamed live on youtube.
The premiere will be streamed live on youtube.
- 1/6/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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