07/07/2010

YouTube has joined hands with British filmmakers Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald and are asking people around the world to create the first user-generated feature-length documentary film shot on a single day – July 24, 2010. Life in a Day is a film experiment that enlists the global community to capture a moment of their lives on that day.

BAFTA and Oscar-winning director Macdonald (One Day in September, Last King of Scotland [+see also:
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Macdonald said, “Life in a Day is a time capsule that will tell future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010. It is a unique experiment in social filmmaking, and what better way to gather a limitless array of footage than to engage the world’s online community.”

Sundance director John Cooper said, “A vital part of our mission is to support individual storytelling around the globe and to provide a platform for expression and experimentation. This is a great way to engage the YouTube community and to also provide Festival audiences with something new and unexpected.”

Scott Free will work with Rick Smolan, CEO of Against All Odds Productions, a US organization that specializes in the execution of large-scale global projects that combine storytelling with state-of-the-art technology, to distribute cameras to individuals in remote regions of the world.