Life in a Day

The idea for this groundbreaking film and awesome pictorial collage surfaced in 2010 at the Sundance Institute, which was invited to take part in a worldwide cinematographic experiment. British director Kevin Macdonald proposed to film a feature-length documentary which would unfold over the course of a single day. Together the director and the film’s producer Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) decided to craft their original project using the growing popularity and appeal of YouTube: with a team of talented editors, they ultimately ended up processing 80,000 contributions coming in from 197 countries, totalling around 5,000 hours of highly personal and emotive video clips. For the first time in film history, we are given a unique documentary created from mini-stories filmed by people all over the world. The audience is thus given the chance to set out on a profoundly spiritual hour-and-a-half journey across the Planet Earth, the way it looked on July 24, 2010. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)