Life in a Day (2011 film)

Life in a Day
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKevin Macdonald
Produced byLiza Marshall
Edited byJoe Walker
Music byHarry Gregson-Williams
Matthew Herbert
Production
companies
Distributed byNational Geographic Entertainment
Release dates
  • 21 January 2011 (2011-01-21) (YouTube)
  • 27 January 2011 (2011-01-27) (Sundance)
Running time
95 minutes[1]
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguagesEnglish
Italian
Japanese
German
Spanish
Indonesian
Balinese
Portuguese
Ukrainian
Vietnamese
Creole
Catalan
Dutch
Bengali
Masai
Hindi
Arabic
Quechua
Russian
Telugu
Tamil
Box office$252,788[2]

Life in a Day is a crowd-sourced documentary film comprising an arranged series of video clips selected from 80,000 clips submitted to the YouTube video sharing website, the clips showing respective occurrences from around the world on a single day, 24 July 2010.

The film is 94 minutes 53 seconds long[1] and includes scenes selected from 4,500 hours of footage in 80,000 submissions from 192 nations.[3][4] The completed film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on 27 January 2011[5][6] and the premiere was streamed live on YouTube.[7] On 31 October 2011, YouTube announced that Life in a Day would be available for viewing on its website free of charge, and on DVD.[8][9]

  1. ^ a b "LIFE IN A DAY | British Board of Film Classification". bbfc.co.uk.
  2. ^ Life in a Day at Box Office Mojo
  3. ^ "World awaits YouTube's 'Life in a Day' premier at Sundance". International Business Times. 24 January 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  4. ^ "World invited to watch premiere of life through a lens". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 July 2010. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  5. ^ "Life in a Day | Kevin Macdonald". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 July 2010. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  6. ^ "YouTube's 'Life in a Day' Project – CBS News Video". CBS News. 22 July 2010. Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  7. ^ "Howell: Tears flow during Sundance's 'Life in a Day'". Toronto Star. Toronto. 25 January 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  8. ^ "Life in a Day now available on YouTube". 31 October 2011. Archived from the original on 1 November 2011. Retrieved 31 October 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), YouTube's official blog ().
  9. ^ Barrett, Brian, Life in a Day: Watch the Beautiful YouTube-Fueled Epic Right Now (archive), Gizmodo, 31 October 2011.