Life in a Day (2011)

A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.

Directors:

Kevin Macdonald, Hiroaki Aikawa,

Stars:

Cindy Baer, Caryn Waechter, Hiroaki Aikawa

2 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Cindy Baer	...	Herself
Caryn Waechter	...	Herself
Hiroaki Aikawa	...	Himself
Ranja Kamal	...	Herself
Moica	...	Actress (as Mojca Brecelj)
Ashley O'Dell	...	Herself (as Ashley Meeks)
Jaap Dijkstra	...	Himself
Drake Shannon	...	Himself
David Jacques	...	Himself
Ayman El Gazwy	...	Himself
Arsen Grigoryan
Ester Brym	...	Herself (as Ester Brym Ortiz Guillen)
Jennifer M. Howd	...	Herself
Lilit Movsisyan
Cec Marquez	...	Himself

Storyline

What do you get when you ask the people of the world to chronicle a single day in their lives? You get 80,000 submissions, 4500 hours of footage, from 192 countries. Kevin Macdonald has taken this raw material, all shot on July 24, 2010, and created a 90-minute paean to what it means to be human in the world today.

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Plot Keywords:

year 2010 | talking to the camera | earth | prologue | nonlinear timeline | 

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Taglines:

Filmed by You

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Genres:

Documentary | Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for disturbing violent images, language and a sexual reference

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA UK

Language:

English Italian Japanese German Spanish Indonesian Balinese Portuguese Ukrainian Vietnamese Creole Catalan Dutch Bengali Masai Hindi Arabic Quechua Russian

Release Date:

27 January 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

La vida en un día

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$45,202 (USA) (29 July 2011)

Gross:

$247,215 (USA) (23 September 2011)

Company Credits

Production Co:

LG, Scott Free Productions, YouTube

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Man: I actually love my refrigerator. It's such a cool thing. It remains at one corner. It keeps its mouth shut. I love my refrigerator. Nothing else but my refrigerator!

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Connections

Featured in Breakfast: Episode dated 14 June 2011 (2011)

User Reviews

The Power of Connection

Life in a Day is a historic cinematic experiment that attempts to capture what life looks like on one day, July 24th, 2010, around the entirety of the world. Thousands of hours of video were captured and then compiled to give a glimpse into what constitutes an average day amongst humanity.

This film is ultimately about connection; the connection of humans to one another and all of the mundane, regular, everyday things that we share despite our differences in culture, location, and upbringing. The fact that we all sleep. We all wake up in the morning. We all eat breakfast. We brush our teeth. We walk around. We smile. We love. We fear. We breathe. This film is an affirmation of the simple joys and sorrows that we experience merely as a result of living on this earth and being human. It is an affirmation of life at its rawest, truest, grittiest, and loveliest.

The summarization of this project can be found in the words a young teenage girl who vocalizes that, although she went through her whole day with nothing particularly out of the ordinary occurring, merely by partaking in this social experiment and something greater than just her own life, she was left with the feeling that something amazing was happening.

This simple statement speaks of our innate human desire to be a part of something that is larger than just ourselves. We long to belong, to connect, to be understood, and to be a part of something meaningful and worthwhile. This film speaks directly to this need and is able to transcend religion, culture, age, and gender to get at the heart of what it means to be a human being on earth today. What an amazing time capsule treasure for generations to come.