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Life in a Day: Now in theatres
Monday, 5 September 2011
On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their day to YouTube to take part in
Life in a Day
, a historic cinematic experiment to create a documentary film about a single day on earth. From over 80,000 submissions, i
ncluding 1,500 from Australia
, executive producer Ridley Scott and Oscar winning director Kevin Macdonald have crafted a 90-minute feature film that paints a surprising, moving and entertaining portrait of the world today.
The movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and was simultaneously live streamed on YouTube. The film
arrived down under
at the Sydney Film Festival and subsequently at the Melbourne Film festival, and we’re proud to announce that
Life in a Day
is now playing in select
Chauvel Cinemas
.
Happy watching!
Posted by Ernesto Soriano, YouTube Australia, recently watched
Kevin McDonald & Joe Walker discuss Life in a Day
Mapping the Aussie Summer: We Were Here brings YouTube to the Sydney Film Festival
Thursday, 9 June 2011
What does an Australian summer really look like? We asked you to submit your answers and from Brissie to Broome and everywhere in between, YouTubers responded with hundreds of videos, creating a
map of Australia
through an archive of events, experiences and people. Over the past two months, director Amy Gebhardt worked with
Dr. George Miller
to create a film made from your YouTube videos to put together a unique vision of the Australian summer, as told by you.
This Saturday, the film
We Were Here
premieres at the Sydney Film Festival at 8:35pm EST, and will be available on YouTube at the same time! You can have a sneak preview of the trailer right here:
Can’t get enough YouTube on the big screen?
We Were Here
also premieres alongside
Life in a Day
, the first full-length user-generated documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in
January
. Life in a Day was crafted into a feature film by Ridley Scott and Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald, and chronicles a single day on earth. The world premiere was live streamed right here on YouTube, but it’s also coming to theatres soon.
Have a look at the Life in a Day trailer which has only recently gone live:
Together, these two works represent a new generation of truly radically inclusive filmmaking, pulled together through the help of YouTubers from all over Australia, and all over the world! Come back to
youtube.com/mapmysummer
to watch
We Were Here
, which will be available online for a limited time. And be sure to subscribe to
youtube.com/lifeinaday
for updates on the Australian theatrical release.
Posted by Ernesto Soriano, YouTube Team, just watched
Summertime Rolls
Thousands of Australians capture their Life in a Day
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Editor's Note: This is a cross post from
Official Google Australia Blog
Nearly 1,500 Aussies picked up a video camera on Saturday, July 24 and captured part of their day for an ambitious new YouTube project.
Life in a Day
is a global experiment aiming to create the first ever user-generated feature film, and when entries closed last weekend we found out we’d received 80,000 submissions from people around the world, representing 197 countries and 45 languages.
Australians filmed themselves walking on the beach in Melbourne, skiing in Thredbo, and answering the questions
posed by Life in a Day director Kevin Macdonald
: “What do you love? What do you fear? What makes you laugh? What’s in your pocket?”
The next step? Over the coming months, the most compelling and distinctive footage received will be edited into a feature-length film, produced by Ridley Scott (of Gladiator fame) and directed by Kevin Macdonald (director of the Last King of Scotland).
A gallery of submitted footage will go live on YouTube’s
Life in a Day channel
in early September, and the final film will screen at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011 and be available on YouTube. We can’t wait to see the result, and whether any Australians will be co-credited as directors when the film is released.
Posted by Ernesto Soriano, YouTube team
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