A Day At a Time

Life in a Day is a global film experiment that enlists the global community to capture a moment of their lives on Saturday,July 24 and to upload that footage on http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday.

Academy award-winning director Macdonald,who has films like State of Play,Last King of Scotland and Touching the Void to his credit,will be directing,while Scott (of Robin Hood,Gladiator,Black Hawk Down fame) will be producing it under his company,Scott Free Productions. Individuals whose footage makes it to the finished film will be credited as co-directors and 20 of these contributors will be flown to the 2011 Sundance Film Festival for the film’s world premiere.

“Over the past five years,You Tube has changed the way media is created and consumed. Life in a Day is one of several efforts by us to push the boundaries of music,art,and now film. YouTube Symphony Orchestra and the recently announced YouTube Play partnership with the Guggenheim are examples of the convergence of online video with traditional arts. The latest documentary takes this effort into the cinematic realm,” says Eric Schmidt,CEO of Google,YouTube’s parent company via email. For Macdonald,“Life in a Day 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.”

“A vital part of our mission is to support individual storytelling around the globe and to provide a platform for expression and experimentation,” says John Cooper,director of the Sundance Film Festival.

As part of this global project,Scott Free will be working with Rick Smolan,creator of A Day in the Life and CEO of Against All Odds Productions,a California-based organisation that specialises in the execution of large-scale global projects that combine story-telling with state-of-the-art technology. Smolan’s company will be distributing cameras to individuals in remote regions of the world in an effort to ensure that the film is as inclusive and representative as possible. To learn more and upload footage on July 24,visit http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday. .