What happens when you send a request out to the world to chronicle, via video, a single day on Earth?... You get over 81,000 YouTube submissions and over 4,500 hours of footage from 192 countries.
Producer Ridley Scott and Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald took this raw material - all shot on 24th July, 2010 - and created Life in a Day, a unique and interesting, feature-length documentary that portrays this kaleidoscope of images we call life.
The individual clips are accompanied with answers to three questions: What do you love? What do you fear? What’s in your pocket? These questions, as well as all the various activities and daily human experiences produce an interesting juxtaposition, as well as contrasts and similarities between everyone all around the world. The film also follows interesting individuals who almost deserve a whole film in their own right.
Kevin Macdonald, most notable for directing The Last King Of Scotland, State Of Play, and more recently The Eagle, has previously directed other successful documentaries as well, such as Touching The Void, and the Academy Award winning One Day In September. However, what makes this film a unique experience is that it consists entirely out of raw personal footage from people that are letting you into their lives themselves, which is something you don’t normally get in any documentary.
Like other successful documentaries released this year, such as TT3D: Closer to the Edge, and more recently Senna, Life In A Day is getting a cinematic release and is already out now.
From our Film Editor
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