Life in a Day 2020 is a 2021 American crowd-sourced documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald. The sequel to the 2011 film Life in a Day, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on February 1, 2021, and on YouTube February 6, to generally favorable critical reviews. [1] Like its predecessor, it comprises a wide array of selected video clips showing things happening in the world on one day: July 25, 2020. [2]

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Theme and production

The announcement of the film was published on the movie’s YouTube channel on July 8, 2020, [3] coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic, the George Floyd protests, natural disasters, etc., which Sundance Film Festival director Tabitha Jackson sees as «the perfect time to premiere this for a new edition of a work that so powerfully demonstrates the power of cinematic storytelling to reveal and celebrate our shared humanity». [2]

The film follows the same structure as its 2011 predecessor, comprising selected vlogs of people all around the world, talking about themselves on the same day, July 25, 2020. Submissions were open from July 25 to August 2. [4] [5] A team of multilingual editors and researchers selected noteworthy submissions. [2]

Kevin Macdonald sees the film as a «time capsule,» stating: [6]

I guess any movie reflects its moment, whether you consciously want it to or not, but this even more so. I think it will be a time capsule for the ages. We’re living through this time of great political upheaval, and that’s maybe at the forefront of our thoughts. But for a lot of people, the lived day-to-day experience, which is what I’m hoping we’ll capture in the film, is not going to be about those big issues, at least not directly. It’s going to be about, you know, ‘it’s bath time for the baby,’ or, ‘what do I do on my Saturday off,’ or, ‘I don’t have enough food to eat, and here’s how I get by.’ I always say to people, ‘What’s boring to you, what’s normal to you, is gonna be fascinating to other people.’

The producers did not compensate individual film-makers whose work was included for their creative efforts, although they were credited as co-directors of the project. [7]

Critical response

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes had Life in a Day 2020 an overall critical percentage of 71 using 21 reviews (15 positive and 6 negative), with an average rating of 6.70 out of 10. [8]

Most critics came to an agreement that the film is a comprehensive depiction of life during the COVID-19 pandemic, [9] [10] [11] with the Chicago Sun-Times calling it «wholly predictable yet undeniably effective», [12] and Variety comparing it favorably with its predecessor for focusing on highlighting themes of unity, though noted that this approach caused the film to lack themes of «seeking and stressing life’s more diverse and disorienting juxtapositions». [13] Many also praise the choice of videos and compilation style, which they observed to be emotional and heartwarming, feelings ambient in a variety of ways during the pandemic, [14] [9] [10] though Variety called certain choices «irregular», [13] and Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian criticized its apparent context-free nature and that the compilation «look[s] more like a corporate ad». He, however, praised many of the videos, which he found to be lively. [15]

The San Francisco Chronicle ‘s G. Allen Johnson went so far as comparing the film to that of the Voyager Golden Record, labelling Life in a Day 2020 «an ethnographic record of our planet in a moment of time», and expresses anticipation for future follow-ups. [11]

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‘Life in a Day 2020’ Review: A Pretentious Take on ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’

Sundance: Calling the crowdsourced YouTube doc a serious “America’s Funniest Home Videos” is unfair to “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”

Fancy rat Rex teaches human boy to read in “Life in a Day 2020.”

You’re not likely to find a more jarring — and ultimately exhausting — collision of high pretension and low execution at Sundance this year than the crowdsourced YouTube doc “Life in a Day 2020.” The internet video behemoth foretold a new era of DIY filmmaking when it launched in 2005, and just five years later it tried give an artistic patina to the amateur works that defined the site with “Life in a Day,” an assortment of uploaded clips given some coherence by veteran documentarian Kevin Macdonald. The result was meant to be profound, a glimpse at the beauty of the ordinary. But it was just ordinary.

A decade later, YouTube and Macdonald have doubled down with “Life in a Day 2020,” which leans into the gravitas — and what better year to get “deep” than 2020? Over 320,000 amateur videographers from 192 countries uploaded videos shot on July 25, 2020, and the footage could be anything. Some are performance works: a Black guy sings the Schubert Lied “The Elf King” in crisp, precise German (he’s a talent, but like all participants, uncredited); one teenage Italian girl poses coquettishly in the woods while talking about love and how great it is to be 18.

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Most clips feature people showing their “real” lives or talking about them. Some are far-flung indeed: a Sakha man from the far north of Siberia — thawed, being that it’s July 25 — wanders shirtless through an ankle-deep stream and pronounces his desire to live until 100. A young Eastern European girl (“Life in a Day 2020” includes no captions that might allow you get your bearings) milks a goat. An American military vet films himself running while proudly proclaiming that he’s outside without a mask — then, back home, he shows off a decoration signed by President Trump. And some juxtapositions simply puzzle: why does footage showing a man repairing shoes, something he’s done for 43 years he says, cut directly into a grim scene of an Islamic undertaker washing a body for burial?

The pandemic doesn’t explicitly factor into “Life in a Day 2020” as much as you think it might; it probably accounts for the sheer number of videos featuring people doing quotidian things at home. Or is that just the nature of YouTube? Certainly, it’s striking to see anyone roaming about outside in more remote locations, where the pandemic had less of an impact. And one guy “who’s lost everything” because of the pandemic and lives in his car certainly elicits our sympathy.

Macdonald, and three credited editors, structures the footage around weighty themes. He opens with the theme of birth, and footage of a woman standing while pushing out her baby follows. It recalls a similar moment in Dziga Vertov’s silent 1929 collage “Man with a Movie Camera,” something Macdonald clearly strives for here with his careful grouping of elemental subjects. “Birth” is followed by “dawn,” images of people starting their day. “Work,” “love,” “proposals,” “food,” “protest,” “humanity’s affect on nature,” “faith,” and “celebration” are among those that come after.

And “death,” as in life, is simply unavoidable. The single most moving and memorable bit of footage is a clip of a bereaved mother — holding the camera and not appearing herself — aiming her lens at at TV, where she’s playing a clip of her son featured in the “Life in a Day” from 10 years ago. She then says she wants to introduce her son now. The camera pivots and trains itself on a funerary urn. He died in February 2020 from Covid-19, she says. Just as powerful is a young African American girl speaking directly into the camera about how two of her brothers died in police custody.

These are the kinds of moment that will stay with you forever. “Life in a Day 2020” needed many more, but most people experiencing the highest highs and the lowest lows of their lives probably aren’t in the mood to capture them on video. In this age of social-media vanity, the highest highs are more likely — but that raises the question of why YouTube would back this film rather than Instagram or Twitter. We’re not getting “real life,” anyway; with Instagram and its bevy of preening Influencers, you might end up with more carefully composed images instead of these endless shaky cam and selfie close-ups.

“Life in a Day 2020”

Macdonald clearly aspires to art. “Man with a Movie Camera” and many of the “city symphony” documentaries of the 1920s aimed for something similar: a chance to capture real life, to see what’s really around you and find the poetry and profundity. He has directed many excellent documentaries, including the Oscar-winning “One Day in September,” but here he’s a curator assembling YouTube playlists.

So many of these images are exactly what you’d expect to see on YouTube. Animal videos in “Life and a Day” include kittens lapping milk from a shared bowl, a Russian boy and his pet rat Rex, and the aforementioned goat, which throws a fit and scampers off before the little girl who’s milking her can finish the job. Is humanity this boring? Can our fellow humans show us nothing new?

“Life in a Day 2020” is similar to the many montages favored by the Oscars each year, but those images are professionally framed by the industry’s finest craftspeople. The closest analogue is “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” a show that also groups its footage based on theme — “vacation silliness,” “birthday party mishaps” — but “Life in a Day 2020” isn’t funny, or memorable. Individual videos go viral; playlists don’t.

Macdonald, from whom a documentary on any other subject would be far more warmly greeted, has now made two of these “Life in a Day” movies. To borrow from Oscar Wilde: to make one “Life in a Day” movie is a misfortune. To make two, carelessness.

Grade: D+

“Life in a Day 2020” will premiere for free on YouTube on Saturday, February 6.

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Парень у нее получше. Хотя бы не выносит мозг сразу.

И все, что между ними произошло.

Тупость и бредятина.

Фильм очень длинный, поэтому я смотрел его в два приёма, чтобы не потерять вкус к этому произведению. Несмотря на сумасшедшую динамику (темп), иногда становилось скучно. Отдаю должное главному исполнителю роли Элвиса Остину Батлеру: думаю, что роль далась ему непросто. Именно из-за него я оценил фильм на 8 баллов из 10.

Кстати, Тома Хэнкса сначала не узнал: срок годности у актёра по внешнему виду явно вышел.

Фильм шедеврален богатым и талантливым использованием киноязыка. Режиссер хорошо создает нужную атмосферу. С помощью киноязыка создается повествование, в котором теряется грань между реальностью, галлюцинацией и сном. Затем и вовсе главным заблуждением оказывается самое казалось бы правильное решение. Не случайно и то, в чем развивается основной конфликт. Здесь Скорсезе продолжает рефлексировать над своим консервативным воспитанием. В фильме именно дьявол, а не бог, говорит, что бог не хочет страданий. В католицизме (и шире в христианстве) это не так. Именно бог все устроил так, чтобы страдания были нужны. Теологическая проблема. Как это так получается. За столетия богословы нагенерировали десятки объяснений на счет того, что все на самом деле не так как кажется. Скорсезе, как видно из фильма, ни одно объяснение не удовлетворило. Ага, все не так как кажется. Ну тогда и я сниму о том, что все не так, как кажется. Разумное объяснение, наверное, куда проще. Христианство пришло из тех веков, в которые человечество было менее чувствительным, и поэтому бог, который требует страданий, ни у кого вопросов не вызывал.

Примечательна роль Иуды у Скорсезе. Он самый последовательный и стойкий ученик. И фактически спасает Иисуса.

К сожалению, фильму не повезло. И сегодня он воспринимается не как «размышления о природе Христа», а как «тот фильм, против которого протестовали». Это искажает не только интерес, но и восприятие картины. История конфликта сама по себе не впечатляющая. В конце 60-ых американское общество устало от реформ и было напугано. Оно захотело спрятать голову в песок старых добрых времен и старых устоев. 70-ые и 80-ые стали временем увлечения религией и прихода религии в политику. Религиозные круги сочли, что пришло их время, и можно добиться закрепления в законодательстве религиозных норм. По большей части добиться этого им не удалось. И конец 80-ых стал временем разочарования для христианского возрождения. Несмотря на все усилия, успехи были скромными. Разочарование стало той почвой, из которой вырос бурный протест, когда кому-то в руки попал сценарий к «Последнему искушению». Сценарий содержал всяческие непотребства и вольности, которые пылких верующих возмутили и заставили воскликнуть «Вставай страна огромная». Разъяснения того, что все нехорошие места из сценария удалены, и в грядущем фильме их не будет, не помогли. В конечном счете, христианской общественности прокат фильма удалось в основном сорвать. Но фильм пережил время, в отличие от многих когда-то кассовых лент, которые сегодня успешно забыты.

Удивительно, сколь узка целевая аудитория фильма. Не религиозным людям фильм будет не интересен. Религиозным людям вообще не понятно, зачем снимать не то, что в Библии. Фильм для тех, кому интересно христианство, но кто осмысливает его на общекультурном уровне, выходящем за рамки церковных трактовок. То есть для узкой прослойки образованных людей. Таковых мало.

Фильм обогнал свое время. В «Девушке» затрагивается тема сексуальных домогательств. Кинематограф осознает эту социальную проблему еще лет через двадцать. Расовая проблематика тоже была революционной. В США проходили демонстрации, марши, протесты, судебные процессы, бойкоты, в активистов стреляли, церкви поджигали, в дома бросали самодельные бомбы, полиция и ФБР потакали преступлениям на расовой почве, а политический класс лихорадило. Ничего этого Голливуд не замечал. Расовые вопросы были табу для «фабрики грез» в 50-ых и 60-ых. Целевая аудитория не хотела такое видеть, а кинокомпании боялись протестов, бойкотов и политического давления, если они попытаются затронуть болезненную тему. Только в 1967 году голливудский провокатор Стэнли Крамер выпустит семейную драму с расовой проблематикой и чернокожим героем второго плана. «Девушка» Бунюэля не вызвала масштабного скандала только потому, что из-за мексиканского производства ее не заметили зрители. В сам фильм снят по классическому образцу кино-пьессы. От нее он унаследовал сентиментальность и пафосность. Это на мой взгляд, фильм портит. Напротив саспенс, злая ирония и прорисованность персонажей – лучшая сторона картины.

А женщина любит боль и подчинение.

Снято очень весело. Фильм очень смешной, веселый и позитивный. Режиссер нашел тонкую грань между карикатурностью персонажей и отсутствием фальши, тем более в такой неоднозначной теме. Браво!

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You’re invited to participate in ‘Life In A Day 2020’ on July 25

On July 25, executive producers Ridley Scott (“The Martian,” “Gladiator”) and Kai Hsuing (“Lords of Chaos”), along with director Kevin Macdonald (“Whitney,” “One Day in September,” “The Last King of Scotland”), invite you and the YouTube global community to pick up your cameras to create “Life In A Day 2020.”

Exactly 10 years after the original “Life In A Day,” the world will once again come together to create a YouTube Original feature-length documentary that tells the story of a single day on Earth. Selected footage sourced from participants like you will be woven together in this documentary to tell the story of an ordinary day during these extraordinary times. “Life In A Day 2020” will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and on YouTube in 2021.

How the project works

On a single day, Saturday, July 25, people around the world are invited to film their day.

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Life in a Day 2020

On July 25th, 2020, Ridley Scott and Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald invite you to be part of Life in a Day—a historic, global documentary capturing a single day on Earth. Videos from around the world are woven into a feature film.

Actors: Despina Mirou, Shaira Yasmin Berg, Karim Jovian

Director: Kevin Macdonald, Howard Hong, Danica Jensen

Country: United States

Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid

As told to a psychiatrist: Mr. Peabody, middle-aged Bostonian on vacation with his wife in the Caribbean, hears mysterious, wordless singing on an uninhabited rock in the bay. Fishing in the vicinity, he catches. a mermaid. He takes her home and, though she has no spoken language, falls in love with her. Of course, his wife won’t believe that thing in the bathtub is anything but a large fish. Predictable complications follow in rather tame fashion.

Little Caesar

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

A Star Is Born

A movie star helps a young singer/actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Oklahoma!

This joyous celebration of frontier life combines tender romance and violent passion in the Oklahoma Territory of the 1900s with a timeless score filled with unforgettable songs. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s hit Broadway musical.

Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book is given the full treatment in this lavish retelling filled with huge sets, exotic animals, a large cast and the incomparable Sabu, starring as Mowgli, the young orphan boy raised by wolves. Curious to reconnect with his human village, Mowgli returns only to find disappointment in the greed and treachery of man. Over time, Mowgli and the village members do grow to trust one another, but not before the village finds itself under siege. It’s up to Mowgli and his jungle friends to save the day.

The Young Savages

A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.

The Quatermass Xperiment

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer’s field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.

King and Country

During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.

The 400 Blows

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.

Hellfighters

The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.

Where the Sidewalk Ends

A police detective’s violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

The Odd Couple

In New York, Felix, a neurotic news writer who just broke up with his wife, is urged by his chaotic friend Oscar, a sports journalist, to move in with him, but their lifestyles are as different as night and day are, so Felix’s ideas about housekeeping soon begin to irritate Oscar.

Trailer: Life in a Day 2020

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Жизнь за один день (Life in a day)

Прямая трансляция с кинофестиваля

24 июля 2010 года тысячи людей со всего света прислали видеоклипы о своей жизни на Youtube. Они стали участниками проекта «Жизнь за один день» (Lifeinaday) — исторического эксперимента по созданию документального фильма об одном дне из жизни планеты.
Обладатель «Оскара» режиссер Кевин Макдональд и его помощники просмотрели более 80 000 видеороликов, превратив 4500 часов видео в 90-минутный фильм — яркую, правдивую зарисовку о нашем мире.

Кевин Макдональд о «Жизни за один день»

Вы можете оказаться в числе его первых зрителей! Будет вестись прямая трансляция с мировой премьеры, которая состоится на кинофестивале «Sundance» 28 января в 04:00 по мск (повтор — 28 января в 19:00).
После премьеры вас ждет интерактивное интервью с Кевином Макдональдом и другими приглашенными на фестиваль участниками проекта.
Оставить вопросы можно прямо сейчас. (в том числе на русском).

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Sundance 2021: “Life in a Day 2020” is a 90-minute vlog compilation

The gimmick to Kevin Macdonald’s worldwide snapshot of 24 hours has lost its novelty this deep into the social media age.

(This review is part of our coverage of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.)

A little over 10 years ago, Kevin Macdonald & Zillah Bowes directed a documentary fully comprised of footage that people across the world recorded over one day. That was July 24, 2010, and the documentary, Life in a Day, premiered that following January. On July 25 of last year, the same production method went into effect to create Life in a Day 2020. Of course, 2020 was a much different year. Hell, it’s still going on now, and some even turned it into a meme of a year. What a difference a decade makes.

The big shift here isn’t just the time. It’s the fact that the approach isn’t special at this point. We all know what 2020 was like because we all lived it, sure, but on top of that, the entire world documented it ad nauseum. There’s no reason to consolidate all of this into a movie. It doesn’t even quite feel like a movie at this point. This gimmick may have worked 10 years ago, but that’s because it was a specific time when people recorded a lot, not quite everything. The sliver of novelty is gone now.

Truthfully, it doesn’t even feel entirely like a movie. It feels like a bunch of vlogs strung together instead, and how is that much different than the medium that cinema and television are competing against? The structure is the same. At the very most, it’s impressive that Nse Asuquo, Sam Rice-Edwards, and Mdhamiri Á Nkemi edited this much footage into 90 minutes. Distilling that is quite the feat regardless of content or medium, but aside from that, there’s not much setting it apart.

This gimmick may have worked 10 years ago, but that’s because it was a specific time when people recorded a lot, not quite everything. The sliver of novelty is gone now.

Like in the original, we get a variety of people all over the world. There are some people working on farms, some celebrating birthdays. One guy spends the day trainspotting. There’s a difference between vérité and fluff, and the first 30 minutes are virtually nothing but the latter. Just fluff? In 2020? It’s crazy, right? One woman’s TV plays a news report about police brutality off-screen, and that’s it. The fact that Life in a Day 2020 spends so much time avoiding all the elephants in the room just adds to the whiff of insincerity.

And then, just what you were expecting but not waiting for: social tensions and coronavirus. Hordes of people convene at weddings, parties, and concerts without masks. One woman laments how two Black family members of hers died in police custody. One man complains about masks and protests. We later get some footage of protests, yet there’s no lyricism to how the film sifts through it all. For everything going on, it’s bizarre that the documentary feels so apolitical. It makes the disclaimer at the beginning about each person’s views being their own even more redundant.

Instead, one piece really sticks out. A woman records herself watching Life in a Day, which included a piece of her trying to wake up her son. When she turns the camera away from her TV and to her left, we see a memorial for him. He passed away toward the beginning of the pandemic due to COVID-19. It’s not like the entire film had to carry this tone; that’d be as untrue as it would be exploitative. It should have, on the other hand, at least had more variety. If modern technology happens to have rendered this type of movie obsolete, find something specific in the editing room. Stick to a perspective. Everyone else has one. Why can’t this thing have its own?

Life in a Day 2020 played in the Special Screenings category of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and will be released by YouTube on February 6, 2021.

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On July 25th, 2020, people all over the world filmed their lives and shared their stories to be part of a documentary film. When all the submissions were tallied, the filmmakers had received over 300,000 videos from 192 countries. The result is a stirring film about love, death, heartbreak, and hope that looks beyond geography and circumstance to explore what connects us as humans. Directed by Academy Award® winner Kevin Macdonald. Produced by legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott. And filmed by YOU.

On July 25th, 2020, people all over the world filmed their lives and shared their stories to be part of a documentary film. When all the submissions were tallied, the filmmakers had received over 300,000 videos from 192 countries. The result is a stirring film about love, death, heartbreak, and hope that looks beyond geography and circumstance to explore what connects us as humans. Directed by Academy Award® winner Kevin Macdonald. Produced by legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott. And filmed by YOU.

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Robin Basselin and Bruce Gulland look at the film “Life in a Day”. It was created from videos recorded around the world – videos from people like you!

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Welcome to Spotlight. I’m Robin Basselin.

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And I’m Bruce Gulland. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.

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“We are all under the same moon.”

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These are the words of film director, Kevin Macdonald. What do you think he meant when he said them?

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Macdonald said these words to the Telegraph news organization. And he was talking about a film he recently directed. A film called “Life in a Day.” Macdonald worked on this film with the famous film producer Ridley Scott. Together, they created this film about life around the world. However, they did not record it themselves. Instead, they used short films or videos recorded by people all over the world.

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Life in a Day is a film recorded by people like you. It shows the many differences between people and cultures. However, it also shows that there are things that connect all people – like the fact that we all live under the same moon. Today’s Spotlight is on the film Life in a Day.

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On July 1st, 2010, Kevin Macdonald released a video on the Internet. He used the popular video sharing website YouTube. Macdonald asked YouTube users to create a video of their life. And he asked everyone to do this on one particular day – July 24th, 2010.

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In his message, Macdonald asked YouTube users to film all parts of life. He wanted to see both normal and not normal life. He asked users to answer questions like “What do you love?” “What do you fear?” “What makes you laugh?” and “What do you carry with you?”

Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay

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Macdonald asked users to put their finished videos on YouTube. From these shared videos, Macdonald wanted to make one long film about global life. However, this is an unusual way to make a film. It uses a method called “crowd-sourcing.” Crowd-sourcing is when a large group of people help complete a project usually done by a few paid workers. In crowd-sourcing, the group completes the project for less money or even for free. Usually, there is a public announcement for a crowd-sourced project. And often people use the Internet to send in their work.

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Crowd-sourcing can be helpful in completing many kinds of projects. For example, companies have used crowd-sourcing to find just the right picture for a particular project. Other people have used crowd-sourcing to find the answer to difficult science problems. In recent years, crowd-sourcing has become more and more popular. Now, Kevin Macdonald has made the first ever crowd-sourced film produced in Hollywood.

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At first, Macdonald did not believe the project would be very popular. However, people sent over 80,000 videos! And they sent them from over 190 countries. This made Macdonald and producer Ridley Scott believe that their idea could work.

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Macdonald and Scott paid 25 people to sort all the videos. These people spent months watching all 4,500 hours of film. Then Macdonald and Scott chose the best pieces of video. From these, they created the 95 minute film Life in a Day.

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Life in a Day began playing in theatres during the summer of 2011. The film includes great stories of birth and love. It also includes terrible stories of fear and death. One of the main stories from the film is about Okhwan Yoon. Yoon is a Korean man. He travels around the world on a bicycle. He rides this two-wheeled vehicle from country to country. His purpose is to teach peace, patience and discovery. He does this by meeting the local people. He talks with them about kindness. Yoon believes that understanding people is the first step of showing kindness. He has travelled to 191 countries to understand people everywhere.

Image by Quang Nguyen vinh from Pixabay

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Another emotional part of the film shows a Japanese father and his young son, Taiji. They are in their apartment. This living space is dirty and not organized. There are many clothes on the floor. The boy quietly watches television. His father performs the morning work. Then they walk over to a large picture of a woman. The father lights a candle. The father and son honour the woman in picture. It is the man’s wife and the boy’s mother. And they are showing respect to her because she has died.

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The film’s producers wanted the film to show life from all parts of the world. So, they sent 400 cameras to people living in places with little or no Internet connection. And these cameras produced some of the most beautiful parts of the film.

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One example is the story of a boy named Cain Able. Cain lives in Peru. And he is about 10 years old. Cain is friendly. And he works shining shoes. He does this because, like Taiji, his mother is dead. However, Cain is joyful. His smile makes everyone’s day better. It brings joy to the people he meets in the film. It also brings joy to the people watching the film.

Image by Jamie Norman from Pixabay

Voice 2

Life in a Day is interesting because of its method and its message. When people watch it, they will see their own lives. They will also see what life is like for people who are not like them. But most importantly, they will see what is common to all people. As Macdonald told the Telegraph news organization,

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“This is what people chose to film. Those of us in the news and film industries think we know what films should be about. But most people are interested in a few, simple things – family, children, love, not being alone, not wanting to live through a war, feeling frightened of illness and death. That is it – that is what life is.”

Voice 1

What do you think about the idea of crowd-sourcing? Do you think it can make a great film? What would you put in a video about your life in a day? Tell us what you think. You can email us at radio@radioenglish.net. Or, you can leave a comment on our website. You can also learn more about the Life in a Day film at www.youtube.com/lifeinaday.

Voice 2

The writer of this program was Graham Bates. The producer was Robin Basselin. The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom. All quotes were adapted and voiced by Spotlight. You can find our programs on the Internet at www.radioenglish.net. This program is called, “Life in a Day.” We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program. Goodbye!

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July 25. Film your day. Share your story.

On July 25th, 2020, Ridley Scott and Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald invite you to be part of Life in a Day—a historic, global documentary capturing a single day on Earth. Videos from around the world are woven into a feature film.

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SUNDANCE 2021: film #24

wanted to check this out for the editing and that didn’t disappoint. for something like this it’s all about the art of the edit, because good montage editing can convey love, hate, joy, despair and humanity itself, tying themes together to spark emotion. and those sequences did often give me goosebumps, but otherwise i wasn’t as invested in this or moved by it like some will be. i would love to edit something as ambitious as this one day

The raw intricacies of humanity on full display. A type of voyeurism rooted in celebrating life’s most beautiful and painful moments. Magic and honest. Rooted in its simplicity. Bravo.

For my final film at the Sundance Film Festival, I was a little bit disappointed by the randomness and lack of cohesiveness. Also, this is a docu-sequel to Life in a Day (2011). There is a lot of referencing to the first one, because several subjects are revisited.

This one takes place during the pandemic. An elementary school aged child complains that his life is «ruined» because he can’t go to Six Flags, and a man vehemently says, “I ain’t wearing no darn mask.” An African-American teenage girl also talks about how she had two unarmed brothers die in police custody which was the only moving part of the documentary.

As someone who didn’t see the original ten years ago, LIFE IN A DAY 2020 floored me. An amalgamation of submitted footage from all over the world showcasing the big & small moments of life, from the pandemic to BLM, from happiness to heartbreak. I could’ve watched this for hours.

Where would society be without train guys?

Maybe equating the rant of anti vaxxers, a veteran being congratulated by Trump and the ‘normal’ day of a cop, with a black woman talking about the death of his two brothers by cops and other glances of black experience isn’t a great idea.

I hate how cutesy it’s. I hate it never allows to differentiate the experiences of these people and, through its editing exercise and premise, gives such a narrow and reductive view of life, more or less the apolitical approach that it has of the pandemic. Of course, it will be impossible for something like one day encapsulate our zeitgeist, but there’s a difference between limitations and have earlier stages of our current situation be nothing more…

Okay, so, long story, but I’m in this movie.
I plan to make a video about it on YouTube in the coming week, but I figured I’d log this “contributors-only” premiere, as it’s the first time I was able to see this great film! I highly recommend it!

Here’s a link to a video I made about my inclusion in the project: youtu.be/D5Hn7grEl6A

The last first time watch and this was good. I enjoyed it, especially the editing and just how daunting a project like this may be. But with all the aspects and things going on here everything feels cluttered and I couldn’t connect to a narrative. It also feels emotionally manipulative and maybe that’s just me but Idk.

In 2011, I remember coming across the documentary Life in a Day, a unique documentary that took hundreds of hours of footage from people from all around the world in one day and combined it into a 90 minute documentary. Around that time, I was in a big documentary phase where I’d watch the most random documentaries. So I somehow came across that documentary and watched it and was fascinated about these regular everyday people from all different backgrounds, countries, lifestyles, religions etc documenting their life on a particular day

Now a decade later, Kevin MacDonald brings us its sequel film, Life in a Day 2020. Here, thousands of people from across the globe document their day…

This might actually be the first time I’ve gotten the chance to have an advanced screening of a movie! Why is that? Because I’m actually a small part of this film! An incredibly small piece of some of my footage is in this film, and even though it’s not in the film for long, it’s still incredible to be a part of such an incredible, heartfelt documentary. I think a lot of people worried that this film was just going to focus on the good moments of people’s lives and just pretend like the world is completely peachy, but in my opinion, this film does the best job it can at presenting as many perspectives of the world as possible.…

Really great documentary. It’s uplifting and poignant in equal measure, taking a tender yet striking approach towards depicting the entirety of life across the entire world. I haven’t seen the original, so I missed some of the context behind the recurring ‘characters’, but it was really quite lovely (and funny!) seeing everybody pouring their heart into this project.

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Here’s a daunting editing assignment: Take more than 300,000 videos and boil them down into one 90-minute documentary film.

For YouTube’s forthcoming “Life In A Day 2020,” the video platform says it received more than 300,000 submissions from 191 countries in more than 65 languages, representing thousands of hours of footage, all recorded on the same day: July 25, 2020.

The film project, “Life in a Day 2020,” comes 10 years after the original YouTube-commissioned documentary, which garnered 80,000 submissions back in 2010 from the same day. Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald is returning as director, reteaming with executive producer Ridley Scott. Rsa Films managing director Kai-Lu Hsiung also is an executive producer on the film.

The final film will be composed entirely of selected contributions from participants, winnowed down by a team of editors before Macdonald makes the final picks. “Life In A Day 2020” will premiere as part of the Sundance Film Festival next January and on YouTube in

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“Life In A Day 2020,” debuts on YouTube February 6, when it will also be available on the YouTube app on smart TVs including LG’s award-winning LG OLED TVs. The feature-length documentary is composed entirely of selected contributions from people around the world who filmed their day on July 25, 2020. LG OLED TVs deliver content the way the filmmakers intended it to be seen featuring more than 8 million self-lit pixels that deliver the deepest blacks, richest colors and realistic picture quality for the best possible experience when watching movies, sports, and playing video games.

Ten years after the original «Life In A Day,» YouTube and the filmmakers asked people all over the world to record their lives to tell the story of a single day on Earth. The filmmakers received more than 300,000 submissions, nearly four times the number of submissions to the previous film, which includes thousands of hours of footage from 192 different countries, in more than 65 languages.

Directed by Academy Award-winning director Kevin MacDonald (The Mauritanian, One Day in September, The Last King of Scotland), and executive produced by Ridley Scott (The Martian, Gladiator) and Kai Hsiung (Lords of Chaos), “Life In A Day 2020” aims to showcase just how extraordinary life can be on an ordinary day.

“The profoundly beautiful film «Life In A Day 2020» deserves to be experienced on a stunning and immersive canvas,” said Angela Courtin, Vice President, YouTube Marketing. “We’re incredibly excited to partner with LG to let audiences know that, in addition to mobile and desktop, they can also view «Life in a Day» on LG’s amazing screens through the YouTube app on LG OLED smart TVs.”

“We are proud to collaborate with YouTube to feature this incredible and moving documentary live in Times Square on our LG digital billboard,’ said Peggy Ang, Vice President of Marketing. LG USA. “We hope visitors to Times Square will take a moment in their own daily life on February 8 to watch a part of Life In A Day and then enjoy its full impact at home with their families on an LG OLED TV.”

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Life in a Day 2020

El 25 de julio de 2020, Ridley Scott y el ganador del Premio de la Academia Kevin Macdonald lo invitan a ser parte de Life in a Day, un documental histórico y global que captura un solo día en la Tierra. Vídeos de todo el mundo se entretejen en un largometraje.

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Emocionante, buen documental para la posteridad! Ridley Scott no produce y dirige solo ciencia ficcion, ya lo ha demostrado varias veces.

Ridley Scott no produce o dirige solo ciencia ficcion, ya lo ha demostro varias veces. Emotiva y buen testimonio para la posteridad.

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Parents need to know that Life in a Day 2020 is the second compilation of videos about individual lives around the world on a single day, woven together from hundreds of thousands of submissions. Like the first edition from a day in 2010, the contributed videos are edited together with like material, and themes revolve around birth, death, family, friends, relationships, work, food, spirituality, hobbies, sports, racial justice, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the experiences described or filmed are intense and emotional; others are light and humorous. People around the world live with varying degrees of comfort; some are content with their station in life, others are not. People talk about loved ones lost to COVID or elsewise. Several women give birth, and one birth is filmed in detail. Dead bodies are cleansed and buried. Couples kiss and suggest they’ll be doing more off camera. Language includes «f—k,» «f—ker,» «f—king,» «dammit,» «bitch,» and «fart.» Some drinking. The film promotes empathy for and curiosity about each other across the human experience.

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What’s the Story?

The makers of LIFE IN A DAY 2020 asked people from around the world to send in videos of their lives on one specific day: July 25, 2020. They received 324,000 videos from 192 countries, representing 65 languages. The clips, organized loosely from morning to nighttime, capture a very different globe than the film’s predecessor ten years ago due to the COVID pandemic. People talk about losing loved ones or their jobs and homes. Essential workers complete thankless tasks. Some people share their hobbies, others their homes, families, special events, religious practices, and hopes and fears for the future. People fall in and out of love. Some of the videos tackle political topics of racial or climate justice. What pulls them all together is the commonality of the human experience, despite superficial differences.

Is It Any Good?

This film is a labor of love, and it’s a major effort of collection, curation, and editing. The organizers received 324,000 videos that they whittled down to 87 minutes. They’ve broadly organized them into like material spread out over the course of a single day, from sun up to sun down. It’s also book-ended by babies being born and elderly people reflecting on lives well lived. Surprisingly, it’s not entirely focused on COVID, but the pandemic is omnipresent, including in a man who has made the spiders in his home his family, a segment on essential workers of all kinds, and people who have lost loved ones. There’s much to be learned about each other, most importantly that there’s more that unites us than separates us as humans on this planet. «What I fear the most is that my life will pass unnoticed,» a young man from Northern Siberia says, echoing a common human sentiment, and perhaps encapsulating the ultimate value of a project like this one: To notice, to reflect, and to care about ourselves and each other.

Families can talk about the common themes that concerned people around the world in Life in a Day 2020. What were some of the biggest differences you noticed?

Which stories or images stood out to you as the most memorable? Why?

How does this film promote empathy for and curiosity about other humans? Why are these important character strengths?

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Eleven of the projects are debut features.

European development programme Less Is More (Lim) has selected 16 feature film projects for its 2022 scheme, plus the 12 ‘development angels’ who will follow the development of the projects, and four tutors who will provide guidance to the selected teams.

Among the titles are Bethan, the debut feature of UK writer-director Zillah Bowes; and Deborah Viegas’ Brazilian-Portuguese debut feature Young Woman Seen From Behind.

Scroll down for the full list of projects, filmmakers and development angels

Eleven of the 16 films are from debut filmmakers, with four from second-time directors and one – Christian Volckman’s Herself – from a third-time filmmaker.

Jodie Foster-Benedict Cumberbatch starrer ‘The Mauritanian’ on June 1st

Amazon Prime Video today announced that filmmaker Kevin Macdonald’s ‘The Mauritanian’ will see its digital premiere from the 1st of June. The man behind films such as ‘The Last King of Scotland’ and ‘Life in a Day’, tackles a sensitive subject of unethical torture in his latest legal drama.

‘The Mauritanian’ examines the thin line between necessary evils and needless crimes when an innocent man is unjustly held behind the brutal bars of Guantanamo Bay. Trapped alone with all his hope dwindling away, he finds compassionate allies in a righteous defense attorney and her fiery associate.

Based on the remarkable true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the movie follows his journey from living a normal life, being imprisoned in hell, to eventually breathing free again. Opening to immense critical acclaim, the film was theatrically released in India by PVR Pictures on 9th April,

Second Trailer for ‘Life in a Day 2020’ Worldwide Docu Experience

Film News: Virtual 2021 Sundance Film Festival Gets Beyond Itself

Chicago – The compact 2021 Sundance Film Festival is on the sixth day of seven, but the offerings are still coming. This year’s festival is virtual and online, meaning anyone with a ticket or a pass can indulge in the film offerings throughout the festival, which runs until Wednesday, February 3rd.

For the premieres of 2021, the cutting edge potential influencer films and all the ancillary new voice filmmakers, the Sundance Film Festival is the one that begins every film year with the movies that ultimately become the talk of the town and the gatherer of year end awards. Your ticket to the festival is your chance to see these films and filmmakers before the general public.

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The Sundance Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Sundance Institute – an organization founded by actor Robert Redford in 1980 – and dedicated to the growth of independent artists.

2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Life in a Day 2020

Life in a Day 2020, 2021. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. Synopsis: Ten years after 2011’s Life in a Day, award-winning director Kevin Macdonald returns to present the story of another day on Earth: July 25, 2020. Of all the movies about the Covid-19 pandemic released as of late – from exploitative speculative thrillers to a rom-com […]

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‘Life in a Day 2020’ Review: Slickly Crowdsourced YouTube Doc Sticks to Old Forms in a Changing Age of Video

Life in a Day 2020 review – ambitious, bizarre and hugely exasperating

Kevin Macdonald’s film aims to give a snapshot of the modern world but its context-free clips look more like a corporate ad

Sensory overload and incoherence are sadly the dominant qualities of this idealistic crowdsourced YouTube video project from director Kevin Macdonald and executive producer Ridley Scott, which is about everything and nothing.

It is a follow-up to Macdonald’s Life in a Day movie from 2011, in which legions of people responded to a request to send in homemade videos on what they were doing on a certain day in 2010: a time-capsule snapshot mosaic from all over the world. This time he and Scott put out a worldwide call for people to record all the various sad, funny, passionate or banal things they were doing on 25 July 2020; he got 324,000 videos from 192 countries.

‘Life in a Day 2020’ Review: A Pretentious Take on ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’

than the crowdsourced YouTube doc “Life in a Day 2020.” The internet video behemoth foretold a new era of DIY filmmaking when it launched in 2005, and just five years later it tried give an artistic patina to the amateur works that defined the site with “Life in a Day,” an assortment of uploaded clips given some coherence by veteran documentarian Kevin Macdonald. The result was meant to be profound, a glimpse at the beauty of the ordinary. But it was just ordinary.

A decade later, YouTube and Macdonald have doubled down with “Life in a Day 2020,” which leans into the gravitas — and what better year to get “deep” than 2020? Over 320,000 amateur videographers from 192 countries uploaded videos shot on July 25, 2020, and the footage could be anything. Some are performance works: a Black guy sings the Schubert Lied “The Elf King” in crisp, precise German; one teenage Italian girl poses coquettishly

Sundance Film Festival 2021 Trailer Round-Up

Starting today, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival gives us a first glimpse at the year in cinema, and this year it’s available to a wider audience than ever before in virtual form. With many tickets still available, we’re now providing our yearly trailer round-up for those interested in a preview of the lineup.

Ahead of our coverage, bookmark this page for a continually-updated round-up of trailers and clips, kicking off with Taming the Garden, A Glitch in the Matrix, Land, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, Life in a Day 2020, and more.

Check out the trailers (and clips) below thus far in alphabetical order and we’ll be published reviews soon, so follow along here.

Youtube’s Life in a Day 2020 Trailer Looks Back on the Year Most Would Like to Forget

YouTube Originals has released a new trailer for Life in a Day 2020. Much like the original Life In A Day documentary, which debuted a full decade ago in 2011, this movie will be taking a look at people all across the world via little slices of life, showcasing the variety and depth the world has to offer in a single day. Though, as anyone who was alive last year knows, 2020 wasn’t just any year. And it’s a year many of us would like to put in our rearview mirror. Be that as it may, this promises a unique look at a year that will be long-remembered in the history books.

The trailer is not just a slice of life. It’s hundreds of slices of life. Much like the original, it is a showcase of the truly stunning vastness of existence that is human life on Earth. We see newborn babies,

First Trailer for Crowdsourced ‘Life in a Day 2020’ Documentary Film

Questlove, Rebecca Hall, Sean Ellis films among 2021 Sundance line-up

“It’s been an absolute beast,” says festival director Tabitha Jackson.

Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut Passing starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, Metro Manila director Sean Ellis’ horror Eight For Silver, and Nikole Beckwith’s comedy Together Together starring Ed Helms are among 72 features selected for 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which runs online and in select US arthouse venues from January 28-February 3.

The line-up, announced on Tuesday (December 15), includes One For The Road, Thai filmmaker Baz Poonpiriya’s follow-up to Bad Genius; Edgar Wright’s music documentary The Sparks Brothers; Robin Wright’s feature directorial debut Land; Ben Wheatley

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ridley Scott & Kevin Macdonald’s Life In A Day 2020

And for our final item on our predictions list we have a documentary that is technically made a whole bunch of people. It’s a sequel. It’s put together by Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald. And it’s going to give us a bunch of Covid19 perspectives. Life In A Day 2020 follows in the footsteps of the 2010 film. You can find out all the details in this piece.

Gist: This is a bunch of submitted videos shot on Saturday, July 25 – 2020.

Prediction: Documentary Premieres

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Kevin Macdonald on YouTube ‘Life in a Day’ Film Sequel: ‘We’re Not Trying to Tell the Story of Covid’

In about a month, director Kevin Macdonald will sit down to review around 500 hours of the best video footage submitted by YouTube users from around the world and then make a movie from the contributions — all captured on one day: Saturday, July 25, 2020.

The film project, “Life in a Day 2020,” comes 10 years after the original YouTube-commissioned documentary, which Macdonald also directed. But amid the global coronavirus pandemic, Macdonald tells Variety that he doesn’t want to focus specifically on people’s experiences during the crisis.

“I’m hoping it’s not all people in face masks,” he says. “We’re definitely not trying to tell the story of Covid. We’re just trying to show people’s lives. It’s about what is important in your life today – what’s the emotional story you are telling today.”

For the new movie — produced in a process Macdonald calls “communal filmmaking” — YouTube is accepting submissions at lifeinaday.

Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald Want Your Quarantine Videos for YouTube’s ‘Life in a Day 2020’

Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald are reuniting to show you what Life In A Day in 2020 is like. And it’s more than just quarantine videos, though the executive producer and director of the YouTube documentary want your quarantine videos too. A decade after the original Life In A Day crowdsourced documentary, Scott and Macdonald are teaming up […]

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‘Life in a Day’ is back: YouTube Originals calls for entries for documentary film

‘Life in a Day’ Sequel in the Works From Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald at YouTube Originals

A sequel to the 2011 documentary film “Life in a Day” is in the works from executive producers Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald at YouTube Originals that will solicit footage from individuals around the world in order to capture a look at what life looked like on a single day in 2020, YouTube announced Wednesday.

“Life in a Day 2020” will arrive 10 years after the original film, which Macdonald directed and Scott produced that weaved together homemade footage uploaded to YouTube from hundreds of individuals sharing a look at a day in their lives. The new film will follow the same model and will debut at next year’s Sundance Film Festival and on YouTube in 2021.

People hoping to submit their footage for consideration in the documentary can film moments from their lives on July 25, 2020, only and have until Aug. 2 to upload their content to YouTube.

Also Read: YouTube TV Increases Subscription Fee

Ridley Scott, Kevin MacDonald, YouTube reunite on ‘Life In A Day 2020’

Documentary to premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2021.

Ten years after Life In A Day, Ridley Scott and Kevin MacDonald are reuniting for YouTube Originals documentary Life In A Day 2020.

The upcoming production from Rsa Films in association with Flying Object will premiere at Sundance Film Festival and on YouTube in 2021 and sees MacDonald and Scott reprise their roles as director and executive producer.

The filmmakers are encouraging people around the world to film themselves on July 25 with the ambition of editing together the selected submissions to tell the story of a single day on Earth in 2020. Participants will have until

Ridley Scott & Kevin Macdonald Reunite To Make 2020 ‘Life In A Day’ Sequel For YouTube

Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald are reuniting to make a sequel to their 2010 YouTube feature Life In A Day, which relied on user-generated footage to create a portrait of the world in one day.

Life In A Day 2020 will call on millions of people around the world to film their lives on July 25. The footage will then be whittled down and woven together in a Macdonald-directed documentary, which will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and on YouTube in 2021. It is produced by Scott’s Rsa Films in association with Flying Object.

The original Life In A Day film was filmed in July 2010 to mark YouTube’s fifth birthday. The documentary attracted 80,000 submissions and premiered at Sundance in 2011 followed by a theatrical worldwide release. It has since been watched on YouTube more than 16M times.

The Last King Of Scotland helmer Macdonald said: “Making the first Life In A Day

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