Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald is working on a crowdsourced film project telling the real story of the world’s collective mental health.
I Hope this Helps comes from the team behind Macdonald’s Life in a Day, which they describe as the “largest mass-participation feature film in history.”
Kevin Macdonald
For I Hope this Helps, charitable foundation Wellcome has asked people to send in footage documenting the realities of their mental health journeys. The film hopes to match the scale of Life in a Day but with “a new social impact objective at its heart.”
Whitney director Macdonald recently struck a multi-project deal with Banijay and has also made social issues docs such as ITV’s It Takes a Flood.
He said I Hope this Helps will capture the “raw, personal experiences of individuals from all walks of life.”
“The world has faced an extraordinary period of uncertainty and upheaval, and...
I Hope this Helps comes from the team behind Macdonald’s Life in a Day, which they describe as the “largest mass-participation feature film in history.”
Kevin Macdonald
For I Hope this Helps, charitable foundation Wellcome has asked people to send in footage documenting the realities of their mental health journeys. The film hopes to match the scale of Life in a Day but with “a new social impact objective at its heart.”
Whitney director Macdonald recently struck a multi-project deal with Banijay and has also made social issues docs such as ITV’s It Takes a Flood.
He said I Hope this Helps will capture the “raw, personal experiences of individuals from all walks of life.”
“The world has faced an extraordinary period of uncertainty and upheaval, and...
- 4/21/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Eleven of the projects are debut features.
European development programme Less Is More (Lim) has selected 16 feature film projects for its 2022 scheme, plus the 12 ‘development angels’ who will follow the development of the projects, and four tutors who will provide guidance to the selected teams.
Among the titles are Bethan, the debut feature of UK writer-director Zillah Bowes; and Deborah Viegas’ Brazilian-Portuguese debut feature Young Woman Seen From Behind.
Scroll down for the full list of projects, filmmakers and development angels
Eleven of the 16 films are from debut filmmakers, with four from second-time directors and one – Christian Volckman’s Herself – from a third-time filmmaker.
European development programme Less Is More (Lim) has selected 16 feature film projects for its 2022 scheme, plus the 12 ‘development angels’ who will follow the development of the projects, and four tutors who will provide guidance to the selected teams.
Among the titles are Bethan, the debut feature of UK writer-director Zillah Bowes; and Deborah Viegas’ Brazilian-Portuguese debut feature Young Woman Seen From Behind.
Scroll down for the full list of projects, filmmakers and development angels
Eleven of the 16 films are from debut filmmakers, with four from second-time directors and one – Christian Volckman’s Herself – from a third-time filmmaker.
- 3/1/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Amazon Prime Video today announced that filmmaker Kevin Macdonald’s 'The Mauritanian' will see its digital premiere from the 1st of June. The man behind films such as 'The Last King of Scotland' and 'Life in a Day', tackles a sensitive subject of unethical torture in his latest legal drama.
'The Mauritanian' examines the thin line between necessary evils and needless crimes when an innocent man is unjustly held behind the brutal bars of Guantanamo Bay. Trapped alone with all his hope dwindling away, he finds compassionate allies in a righteous defense attorney and her fiery associate.
Based on the remarkable true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the movie follows his journey from living a normal life, being imprisoned in hell, to eventually breathing free again. Opening to immense critical acclaim, the film was theatrically released in India by PVR Pictures on 9th April,...
'The Mauritanian' examines the thin line between necessary evils and needless crimes when an innocent man is unjustly held behind the brutal bars of Guantanamo Bay. Trapped alone with all his hope dwindling away, he finds compassionate allies in a righteous defense attorney and her fiery associate.
Based on the remarkable true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the movie follows his journey from living a normal life, being imprisoned in hell, to eventually breathing free again. Opening to immense critical acclaim, the film was theatrically released in India by PVR Pictures on 9th April,...
- 5/31/2021
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
"I want them to grow up in a world that's kind." YouTube Originals has debuted a second trailer for their documentary sequel Life in a Day 2020, a follow-up to the original Life in a Day film from 2010. This just premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and debuts streaming this weekend. YouTube and the filmmakers asked people all over the world to record their lives to tell the story of a single day on Earth. The filmmakers received more than 300,000 submissions, nearly 4x the number of submissions to the previous film, which includes thousands of hours of footage from 192 different countries, in more than 65 languages. This second trailer (watch the first here) includes the song "Strangers," a new recording of The Kinks classic by Black Pumas and Lucius. This looks like the kind of film to experience with family or friends, to remind you of all the beautiful life on...
- 2/4/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Chicago – The compact 2021 Sundance Film Festival is on the sixth day of seven, but the offerings are still coming. This year’s festival is virtual and online, meaning anyone with a ticket or a pass can indulge in the film offerings throughout the festival, which runs until Wednesday, February 3rd.
For the premieres of 2021, the cutting edge potential influencer films and all the ancillary new voice filmmakers, the Sundance Film Festival is the one that begins every film year with the movies that ultimately become the talk of the town and the gatherer of year end awards. Your ticket to the festival is your chance to see these films and filmmakers before the general public.
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Photo credit: Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Sundance Institute – an organization founded by actor Robert Redford in 1980 – and dedicated to the growth of independent artists.
For the premieres of 2021, the cutting edge potential influencer films and all the ancillary new voice filmmakers, the Sundance Film Festival is the one that begins every film year with the movies that ultimately become the talk of the town and the gatherer of year end awards. Your ticket to the festival is your chance to see these films and filmmakers before the general public.
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Photo credit: Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Sundance Institute – an organization founded by actor Robert Redford in 1980 – and dedicated to the growth of independent artists.
- 2/2/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
It’s been precisely a decade since the first edition of “Life in a Day” debuted at Sundance, though in internet years, that amounts to several eons. YouTube was young, Facebook was the hip subject of a hot movie, and TikTok was not yet a glimmer in a millennial developer’s eye. The film’s concept was simple but seemed quite radical: A fully crowdsourced documentary, assembled by director Kevin Macdonald and editor Joe Walker from a vast haul of amateur footage shot on a single day by over 80,000 international applicants, it sought to elevate the scrappy YouTube video into art. Since then, however, the ultra-short-form online video has become its own art form, free of assistance from prestige filmmakers. YouTube is now the old-school daddy of such faster, flashier platforms as Vine (Rip), TikTok and Triller, exploited with increasing wit and invention by content creators who were still watching...
- 2/2/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Kevin Macdonald’s film aims to give a snapshot of the modern world but its context-free clips look more like a corporate ad
Sensory overload and incoherence are sadly the dominant qualities of this idealistic crowdsourced YouTube video project from director Kevin Macdonald and executive producer Ridley Scott, which is about everything and nothing.
It is a follow-up to Macdonald’s Life in a Day movie from 2011, in which legions of people responded to a request to send in homemade videos on what they were doing on a certain day in 2010: a time-capsule snapshot mosaic from all over the world. This time he and Scott put out a worldwide call for people to record all the various sad, funny, passionate or banal things they were doing on 25 July 2020; he got 324,000 videos from 192 countries.
Sensory overload and incoherence are sadly the dominant qualities of this idealistic crowdsourced YouTube video project from director Kevin Macdonald and executive producer Ridley Scott, which is about everything and nothing.
It is a follow-up to Macdonald’s Life in a Day movie from 2011, in which legions of people responded to a request to send in homemade videos on what they were doing on a certain day in 2010: a time-capsule snapshot mosaic from all over the world. This time he and Scott put out a worldwide call for people to record all the various sad, funny, passionate or banal things they were doing on 25 July 2020; he got 324,000 videos from 192 countries.
- 2/2/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
than the crowdsourced YouTube doc “Life in a Day 2020.” The internet video behemoth foretold a new era of DIY filmmaking when it launched in 2005, and just five years later it tried give an artistic patina to the amateur works that defined the site with “Life in a Day,” an assortment of uploaded clips given some coherence by veteran documentarian Kevin Macdonald. The result was meant to be profound, a glimpse at the beauty of the ordinary. But it was just ordinary.
A decade later, YouTube and Macdonald have doubled down with “Life in a Day 2020,” which leans into the gravitas — and what better year to get “deep” than 2020? Over 320,000 amateur videographers from 192 countries uploaded videos shot on July 25, 2020, and the footage could be anything. Some are performance works: a Black guy sings the Schubert Lied “The Elf King” in crisp, precise German; one teenage Italian girl poses coquettishly...
A decade later, YouTube and Macdonald have doubled down with “Life in a Day 2020,” which leans into the gravitas — and what better year to get “deep” than 2020? Over 320,000 amateur videographers from 192 countries uploaded videos shot on July 25, 2020, and the footage could be anything. Some are performance works: a Black guy sings the Schubert Lied “The Elf King” in crisp, precise German; one teenage Italian girl poses coquettishly...
- 2/2/2021
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Starting today, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival gives us a first glimpse at the year in cinema, and this year it’s available to a wider audience than ever before in virtual form. With many tickets still available, we’re now providing our yearly trailer round-up for those interested in a preview of the lineup.
Ahead of our coverage, bookmark this page for a continually-updated round-up of trailers and clips, kicking off with Taming the Garden, A Glitch in the Matrix, Land, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, Life in a Day 2020, and more.
Check out the trailers (and clips) below thus far in alphabetical order and we’ll be published reviews soon, so follow along here.
Coming Home in the Dark (James Ashcroft)
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet (Ana Katz)
Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
A Glitch in the Matrix (Rodney Ascher)
In the Same Breath (Nanfu Wang...
Ahead of our coverage, bookmark this page for a continually-updated round-up of trailers and clips, kicking off with Taming the Garden, A Glitch in the Matrix, Land, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, Life in a Day 2020, and more.
Check out the trailers (and clips) below thus far in alphabetical order and we’ll be published reviews soon, so follow along here.
Coming Home in the Dark (James Ashcroft)
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet (Ana Katz)
Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
A Glitch in the Matrix (Rodney Ascher)
In the Same Breath (Nanfu Wang...
- 1/28/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"Let's shake it up!" YouTube Originals has unveiled an official trailer for their exciting new collaborative documentary project / sequel titled Life in a Day 2020, a follow-up to the original Life in a Day film from 2010. This is premiering at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, then debuts streaming a week later. YouTube and the filmmakers asked people all over the world to record their lives to tell the story of a single day on Earth. The filmmakers received more than 300,000 submissions, nearly 4x the number of submissions to the previous film, which includes thousands of hours of footage from 192 different countries, in more than 65 languages. Among the massive number of submissions received for consideration, notable individuals featured in the footage include Covid-19 vaccine researchers in Oxford, Rohingya & Syrian refugees, Black Lives Matter protesters, a US Army veteran reflecting on his service, a woman and her challenging fertility journey, and many more personal portraits.
- 1/25/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“It’s been an absolute beast,” says festival director Tabitha Jackson.
Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut Passing starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, Metro Manila director Sean Ellis’ horror Eight For Silver, and Nikole Beckwith’s comedy Together Together starring Ed Helms are among 72 features selected for 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which runs online and in select US arthouse venues from January 28-February 3.
The line-up, announced on Tuesday (December 15), includes One For The Road, Thai filmmaker Baz Poonpiriya’s follow-up to Bad Genius; Edgar Wright’s music documentary The Sparks Brothers; Robin Wright’s feature directorial debut Land; Ben Wheatley...
Rebecca Hall’s feature directorial debut Passing starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga, Metro Manila director Sean Ellis’ horror Eight For Silver, and Nikole Beckwith’s comedy Together Together starring Ed Helms are among 72 features selected for 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which runs online and in select US arthouse venues from January 28-February 3.
The line-up, announced on Tuesday (December 15), includes One For The Road, Thai filmmaker Baz Poonpiriya’s follow-up to Bad Genius; Edgar Wright’s music documentary The Sparks Brothers; Robin Wright’s feature directorial debut Land; Ben Wheatley...
- 12/15/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
And for our final item on our predictions list we have a documentary that is technically made a whole bunch of people. It’s a sequel. It’s put together by Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald. And it’s going to give us a bunch of Covid19 perspectives. Life In A Day 2020 follows in the footsteps of the 2010 film. You can find out all the details in this piece.
Gist: This is a bunch of submitted videos shot on Saturday, July 25 – 2020.
Production Co./Producers: Tbd.
Prediction: Documentary Premieres
U.S. Distributor: Youtube.
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Prediction: Documentary Premieres
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- 11/26/2020
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
In about a month, director Kevin Macdonald will sit down to review around 500 hours of the best video footage submitted by YouTube users from around the world and then make a movie from the contributions — all captured on one day: Saturday, July 25, 2020.
The film project, “Life in a Day 2020,” comes 10 years after the original YouTube-commissioned documentary, which Macdonald also directed. But amid the global coronavirus pandemic, Macdonald tells Variety that he doesn’t want to focus specifically on people’s experiences during the crisis.
“I’m hoping it’s not all people in face masks,” he says. “We’re definitely not trying to tell the story of Covid. We’re just trying to show people’s lives. It’s about what is important in your life today – what’s the emotional story you are telling today.”
For the new movie — produced in a process Macdonald calls “communal filmmaking” — YouTube is accepting submissions at lifeinaday.
The film project, “Life in a Day 2020,” comes 10 years after the original YouTube-commissioned documentary, which Macdonald also directed. But amid the global coronavirus pandemic, Macdonald tells Variety that he doesn’t want to focus specifically on people’s experiences during the crisis.
“I’m hoping it’s not all people in face masks,” he says. “We’re definitely not trying to tell the story of Covid. We’re just trying to show people’s lives. It’s about what is important in your life today – what’s the emotional story you are telling today.”
For the new movie — produced in a process Macdonald calls “communal filmmaking” — YouTube is accepting submissions at lifeinaday.
- 7/24/2020
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
"What if we could capture one day?" Get ready to film and submit your day this coming weekend! YouTube has announced a brand new Life in a Day 2020 doc project, a "sequel" to the original Life in a Day from 2010/2011. Ten years ago, a documentary film was created from submissions on YouTube from all over the world, to show us what a "life in the day" is like for millions of people on planet Earth. Now they're following up with another version of this same day. All the footage must be filmed on July 25th (this Saturday) and submitted online via YouTube next week. Director Kevin Macdonald states: "I am thrilled, ten years later, that we are making Life in a Day 2020. In that time, how have we changed? How has our relationship to filming ourselves changed? And at this extraordinary turning point in history what are we hoping for in our future?...
- 7/23/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald are reuniting to show you what Life In A Day in 2020 is like. And it’s more than just quarantine videos, though the executive producer and director of the YouTube documentary want your quarantine videos too. A decade after the original Life In A Day crowdsourced documentary, Scott and Macdonald are teaming up […]
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- 7/11/2020
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
EntertainmentThe feature film, which will have entries from around the world, will be directed by Kevin Macdonald and produced by Ridley Scott.Tnm StaffHow would you like a video that you made of your life to be added to a feature film which will be directed by Kevin Macdonald and produced by Ridley Scott? Sounds like a dream? What if we told you that the film will premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival? Life In A Day was initiated as part of YouTube Originals and made into a feature length documentary in 2010 with crowdsourced footage, and is set to unfold once again this year. An open call has been placed for participants to film their day on July 25 and upload it on YouTube. Submissions from across the world will be stitched together and made into a feature documentary. In 2010, 80,000 clips were submitted from 189 countries. A 90-minute feature film was made...
- 7/10/2020
- by Anjana
- The News Minute
A sequel to the 2011 documentary film “Life in a Day” is in the works from executive producers Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald at YouTube Originals that will solicit footage from individuals around the world in order to capture a look at what life looked like on a single day in 2020, YouTube announced Wednesday.
“Life in a Day 2020” will arrive 10 years after the original film, which Macdonald directed and Scott produced that weaved together homemade footage uploaded to YouTube from hundreds of individuals sharing a look at a day in their lives. The new film will follow the same model and will debut at next year’s Sundance Film Festival and on YouTube in 2021.
People hoping to submit their footage for consideration in the documentary can film moments from their lives on July 25, 2020, only and have until Aug. 2 to upload their content to YouTube.
Also Read: YouTube TV Increases Subscription Fee...
“Life in a Day 2020” will arrive 10 years after the original film, which Macdonald directed and Scott produced that weaved together homemade footage uploaded to YouTube from hundreds of individuals sharing a look at a day in their lives. The new film will follow the same model and will debut at next year’s Sundance Film Festival and on YouTube in 2021.
People hoping to submit their footage for consideration in the documentary can film moments from their lives on July 25, 2020, only and have until Aug. 2 to upload their content to YouTube.
Also Read: YouTube TV Increases Subscription Fee...
- 7/8/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Documentary to premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2021.
Ten years after Life In A Day, Ridley Scott and Kevin MacDonald are reuniting for YouTube Originals documentary Life In A Day 2020.
The upcoming production from Rsa Films in association with Flying Object will premiere at Sundance Film Festival and on YouTube in 2021 and sees MacDonald and Scott reprise their roles as director and executive producer.
The filmmakers are encouraging people around the world to film themselves on July 25 with the ambition of editing together the selected submissions to tell the story of a single day on Earth in 2020. Participants will have until...
Ten years after Life In A Day, Ridley Scott and Kevin MacDonald are reuniting for YouTube Originals documentary Life In A Day 2020.
The upcoming production from Rsa Films in association with Flying Object will premiere at Sundance Film Festival and on YouTube in 2021 and sees MacDonald and Scott reprise their roles as director and executive producer.
The filmmakers are encouraging people around the world to film themselves on July 25 with the ambition of editing together the selected submissions to tell the story of a single day on Earth in 2020. Participants will have until...
- 7/8/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald are reuniting to make a sequel to their 2010 YouTube feature Life In A Day, which relied on user-generated footage to create a portrait of the world in one day.
Life In A Day 2020 will call on millions of people around the world to film their lives on July 25. The footage will then be whittled down and woven together in a Macdonald-directed documentary, which will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and on YouTube in 2021. It is produced by Scott’s Rsa Films in association with Flying Object.
The original Life In A Day film was filmed in July 2010 to mark YouTube’s fifth birthday. The documentary attracted 80,000 submissions and premiered at Sundance in 2011 followed by a theatrical worldwide release. It has since been watched on YouTube more than 16M times.
The Last King Of Scotland helmer Macdonald said: “Making the first Life In A Day...
Life In A Day 2020 will call on millions of people around the world to film their lives on July 25. The footage will then be whittled down and woven together in a Macdonald-directed documentary, which will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and on YouTube in 2021. It is produced by Scott’s Rsa Films in association with Flying Object.
The original Life In A Day film was filmed in July 2010 to mark YouTube’s fifth birthday. The documentary attracted 80,000 submissions and premiered at Sundance in 2011 followed by a theatrical worldwide release. It has since been watched on YouTube more than 16M times.
The Last King Of Scotland helmer Macdonald said: “Making the first Life In A Day...
- 7/8/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Ten years after the original film, YouTube has ordered a sequel to “Life in a Day,” reuniting executive producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin Macdonald for a new documentary that will stitch together hundreds of user-submitted videos from across the globe on a single date.
“Life in a Day 2020” is slated to premiere at next year’s Sundance Film Festival and on YouTube in 2021. The project marks one of the first titles to be confirmed for Sundance, which doesn’t normally reveal selections until early December.
The film will be compiled from video clips submitted by people on the same day — Saturday, July 25, 2020 — to tell the story of a single day on Earth, following the conceit of the original.
“Making the first ‘Life in a Day’ was one of the most joyful and eye-opening experiences of my life,” Macdonald said in a statement. “I am thrilled, 10 years later, that we...
“Life in a Day 2020” is slated to premiere at next year’s Sundance Film Festival and on YouTube in 2021. The project marks one of the first titles to be confirmed for Sundance, which doesn’t normally reveal selections until early December.
The film will be compiled from video clips submitted by people on the same day — Saturday, July 25, 2020 — to tell the story of a single day on Earth, following the conceit of the original.
“Making the first ‘Life in a Day’ was one of the most joyful and eye-opening experiences of my life,” Macdonald said in a statement. “I am thrilled, 10 years later, that we...
- 7/8/2020
- by Todd Spangler and Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Ten years after he directed the groundbreaking crowdsourced feature documentary Life in a Day — made up of amateur video clips selected from 80,000 submitted to YouTube and depicting people's lives around the world on a single day (July 24, 2010) — director Kevin Macdonald is set to open a cinematic window onto human existence once more.
Life in a Day 2020, as the title suggests, is set to repeat the process a decade later, with anyone who wants to encouraged to film their life and tell the story of a day on Earth, this time on July ...
Life in a Day 2020, as the title suggests, is set to repeat the process a decade later, with anyone who wants to encouraged to film their life and tell the story of a day on Earth, this time on July ...
Ten years after he directed the groundbreaking crowdsourced feature documentary Life in a Day — made up of amateur video clips selected from 80,000 submitted to YouTube and depicting people's lives around the world on a single day (July 24, 2010) — director Kevin Macdonald is set to open a cinematic window onto human existence once more.
Life in a Day 2020, as the title suggests, is set to repeat the process a decade later, with anyone who wants to encouraged to film their life and tell the story of a day on Earth, this time on July ...
Life in a Day 2020, as the title suggests, is set to repeat the process a decade later, with anyone who wants to encouraged to film their life and tell the story of a day on Earth, this time on July ...
Oscar-winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatores (“Mediterraneo”) is making “Voyage in Italy” a doc using material from social media and other sources chronicling life in lockdown in the country that at present has suffered the most deaths due to coronavirus.
The veteran helmer, who in 2014 made user-generated doc “Italy in a Day” based on the Ridley Scott “Life in a Day” format, has teamed up with Milan-based Indiana Production and Rai Cinema on this collective project that intends to provide a tapestry of fresh first-hand accounts of how Italians are “living this dramatic adventure,” says Salvatores.
The director and producers are launching a call to all Italians to provide videos, which must be shot at home, telling the story of what they are going through. The call for materials for the collective “Voyage in Italy” doc is being combined with a fundraising campaign to raise money for Italy’s Civil Protection...
The veteran helmer, who in 2014 made user-generated doc “Italy in a Day” based on the Ridley Scott “Life in a Day” format, has teamed up with Milan-based Indiana Production and Rai Cinema on this collective project that intends to provide a tapestry of fresh first-hand accounts of how Italians are “living this dramatic adventure,” says Salvatores.
The director and producers are launching a call to all Italians to provide videos, which must be shot at home, telling the story of what they are going through. The call for materials for the collective “Voyage in Italy” doc is being combined with a fundraising campaign to raise money for Italy’s Civil Protection...
- 3/25/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Indiana Production and Rai Cinema announce the collective doc Viaggio in Italia which looks to paint a film portrait of what we’re currently experiencing, incorporating many different voices. The documentary announced by Indiana Production and Rai Cinema will be intitled Viaggio in Italia, just like Roberto Rossellini’s 1954 film and Goethe’s world famous diary. It will explore the dramatic moment in history which the country and the wider world is currently experiencing and will be directed by Gabriele Salvatores. Back in 2014, the Oscar-winning director also shot the collective documentary Italy in a Day (likewise produced by Indiana), which was modelled upon Ridley Scott’s Life in a Day, seen to be the “first crowd-sourced movie” in history. Here too, in Viaggio in Italia, Salvatores asks everyone to use their mobiles so that they might act as his eyes, allowing him to travel through houses, different worlds, stories, emotions and images.
Tea Uglow.
Google Creative Lab creative director Tea Uglow will deliver a keynote address on leaning into doubt and anxiety at Screen Producers Australia’s (Spa) annual conference, Screen Forever.
As per the Spa statement: “These are anxious times for the Australian screen industry. Doubt can wear us down – but it can also help us to grow and create, and change our lives. While society generally espouses the value of logic and certainty, as producers of creative content we grow because we doubt. Culture and science are rooted in unknowns and when we accept doubt, we are more creative and generous – more human. Self-doubt is the indubitable baddie of many aphorisms, but what would life without doubt look like?”
Uglow, who identifies as transgender and neurodivergent, is responsible for a portfolio of experimental design and culture projects. She works with cultural organisations and practitioners to enable artists, writers and performers...
Google Creative Lab creative director Tea Uglow will deliver a keynote address on leaning into doubt and anxiety at Screen Producers Australia’s (Spa) annual conference, Screen Forever.
As per the Spa statement: “These are anxious times for the Australian screen industry. Doubt can wear us down – but it can also help us to grow and create, and change our lives. While society generally espouses the value of logic and certainty, as producers of creative content we grow because we doubt. Culture and science are rooted in unknowns and when we accept doubt, we are more creative and generous – more human. Self-doubt is the indubitable baddie of many aphorisms, but what would life without doubt look like?”
Uglow, who identifies as transgender and neurodivergent, is responsible for a portfolio of experimental design and culture projects. She works with cultural organisations and practitioners to enable artists, writers and performers...
- 9/30/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Heymann brothers to direct latest instalment from Scott Free.
Israel is set to get its own Life In A Day instalment, with Tel Aviv production house 2-Team Productions (Sand Storm) teaming up with Jonathan Agassi documentary duo the Heymann brothers on the project.
Overseen by Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions, the format sees filmmakers compile homemade footage submitted by thousands of individuals, subsequently editing the material into a feature.
The original 2011 instalment Life In A Day was directed by Kevin Macdonald and Loressa Clisby and featured scenes selected from 4,500 hours of footage from 80,000 submissions and 192 nations. Since then, single-country...
Israel is set to get its own Life In A Day instalment, with Tel Aviv production house 2-Team Productions (Sand Storm) teaming up with Jonathan Agassi documentary duo the Heymann brothers on the project.
Overseen by Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions, the format sees filmmakers compile homemade footage submitted by thousands of individuals, subsequently editing the material into a feature.
The original 2011 instalment Life In A Day was directed by Kevin Macdonald and Loressa Clisby and featured scenes selected from 4,500 hours of footage from 80,000 submissions and 192 nations. Since then, single-country...
- 7/30/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
“The Magicians” will have a difficult task ahead in Season 4, which was previewed at the Comic-Con panel on Saturday in San Diego. On hand to tease what comes next were co-creators Sera Gamble and John McNamara, stars Jason Ralph, Stella Maeve, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Hale Appleman, and Summer Bishil. Actress and ultimate geek girl Felicia Day, who has guest-starred on the Syfy series, moderated the panel.
“The Magicians” hit reset last season by restoring magic to the world, but it’s controlled and rationed out by the Librarians. Also, the Brakebills students who weren’t able to foil that plan have undergone an unwilling magical witness protection program of sorts in which they each have new identities that even they are fooled by. In short, they’re living new lives under new names with no memory of who they were before. Also, a creature known as the Monster took on...
“The Magicians” hit reset last season by restoring magic to the world, but it’s controlled and rationed out by the Librarians. Also, the Brakebills students who weren’t able to foil that plan have undergone an unwilling magical witness protection program of sorts in which they each have new identities that even they are fooled by. In short, they’re living new lives under new names with no memory of who they were before. Also, a creature known as the Monster took on...
- 7/22/2018
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Screen considers potential runners and riders.
The BBC is likely to announce its new head of film within the next two weeks, according to sources close to the process.
Scroll down for potential candidates and the original job spec
That timetable should come as a relief to those under consideration for the role and to wider industry who will want to begin building or growing their relationship with the new boss.
The job, which is considered one of the UK’s most prestigious posts, became vacant in autumn 2016 following the departure of long-time chief Christine Langan. BBC Films veteran Joe Oppenheimer has been serving as acting head of film since then.
The incoming head of film is expected to have an annual war chest of around £12m for production, cementing BBC Films’ position as one the three mainstays of public funding in the UK along with the BFI and Film4.
The organisation advertised the position (as ‘director...
The BBC is likely to announce its new head of film within the next two weeks, according to sources close to the process.
Scroll down for potential candidates and the original job spec
That timetable should come as a relief to those under consideration for the role and to wider industry who will want to begin building or growing their relationship with the new boss.
The job, which is considered one of the UK’s most prestigious posts, became vacant in autumn 2016 following the departure of long-time chief Christine Langan. BBC Films veteran Joe Oppenheimer has been serving as acting head of film since then.
The incoming head of film is expected to have an annual war chest of around £12m for production, cementing BBC Films’ position as one the three mainstays of public funding in the UK along with the BFI and Film4.
The organisation advertised the position (as ‘director...
- 2/15/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Kevin Macdonald To Direct Whitney Houston Documentary, And Amazon Sci-Fi Series 'Strange New Things'
Try as you might, you can't pin down director Kevin Macdonald. As a documentary filmmaker, he won an Oscar for "One Day In September," and has also helmed "Life In A Day" and "Marley" among others. And in features, he's bounced between true life tales ("The Last King Of Scotland"), swords and sandals epics ("The Eagle"), submarine thrillers ("Black Sea"), and political potboilers ("State Of Play"). And once again, he's got his hands in a few different pots. First up, Macdonald will be helming an officially authorized documentary about Whitney Houston. Folks who were involved with "Searching For Sugar Man" and "Amy" will be backing the project, which promises not to sugercoat the legendary singer's life, which had more than it's fair share of controversy and tabloid worthy headlines. And crucially, Clive Davis, who discovered Houston and propelled her to fame, will be part of those...
- 4/28/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
"What do you like about living on Earth?" Google Play has just premiered a short 10-minute documentary called Emic, made in promotion for/and inspired by the sci-fi movie Interstellar and the idea of one day leaving Earth. Google has been working with Paramount on promoting Christopher Nolan's big epic sci-fi movie all along, with virtual websites for screenings during its release last year. Now it's about to hit Blu-ray soon and is out on iTunes now, so Google is putting out its centerpiece video, the final "culmination" of everything they've worked together on. Similar to Life in a Day, it's a doc that explores what life is like on Earth, to create a time capsule-like video to save and take with us when we one day leave Earth. It's actually quite beautifully made from wonderful footage. "This film is intended to go wherever mankind goes next." Here's a quick trailer for the short,...
- 3/17/2015
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Director Kevin Macdonald’s Black Sea an is a sturdy old-fashioned thriller, an adventure and treasure hunt set within the confines of a submarine. its captain is played by a burly Jude Law, who leads a group of ruffians down to the bottom of the Black Sea to find a sunken Nazi sub that is rumored to have tons and tons of gold on board. With the drama of the film ratcheted up with crew tension and water conditions, Macdonald’s film is a tense throwback, albeit a parable about the 99% helping each other since they’re on the same boat.
Macdonald previously directed films like How I Live Now, The Last King of Scotland, The Eagle, and Touching the Void. He was also the filmmaker chosen to compile a worldwide stack of footage for the documentary endeavor Life in a Day.
I sat with Macdonald in a roundtable interview...
Macdonald previously directed films like How I Live Now, The Last King of Scotland, The Eagle, and Touching the Void. He was also the filmmaker chosen to compile a worldwide stack of footage for the documentary endeavor Life in a Day.
I sat with Macdonald in a roundtable interview...
- 1/30/2015
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
Scott Free London, the Ridley Scott-backed indie, plans to expand its TV development team after it struck a first-look deal with Sonar Entertainment.
Sonar, formerly known as Rhi, will distribute all of Scott Free London’s projects following the deal which was agreed by its chief executive Gene Stein. The two companies signed a distribution deal for forthcoming BBC and FX drama Taboo [pictured] earlier this year and have now formalised a long-term arrangement.
The deal has enabled Scott Free to beef up its development team.
It has hired Strike Back exec producer Gabriel Silver as development producer. Silver has previously worked on Life on Mars, Spooks, Waking The Dead and Dci Banks.
Scott Free London is also recruiting for a junior development role.
Head of TV Kate Crowe said: “The deal with Sonar has meant that we can increase the team and ramp up development. It will give us the wherewithal to expand.”
Scott Free London...
Sonar, formerly known as Rhi, will distribute all of Scott Free London’s projects following the deal which was agreed by its chief executive Gene Stein. The two companies signed a distribution deal for forthcoming BBC and FX drama Taboo [pictured] earlier this year and have now formalised a long-term arrangement.
The deal has enabled Scott Free to beef up its development team.
It has hired Strike Back exec producer Gabriel Silver as development producer. Silver has previously worked on Life on Mars, Spooks, Waking The Dead and Dci Banks.
Scott Free London is also recruiting for a junior development role.
Head of TV Kate Crowe said: “The deal with Sonar has meant that we can increase the team and ramp up development. It will give us the wherewithal to expand.”
Scott Free London...
- 12/3/2014
- ScreenDaily
"One of Hitler's U-boats is just sitting on the sea bed, full of gold." In what looks like the first promising January release in as long as I can remember, Jude Law stars in the undersea thriller Black Sea, and the first trailer has arrived. The film from director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) follows a group of of men who decide to change their luck by taking a submarine into the depths of the Black Sea to get a whole bunch of gold that's just lying in an abandoned, sunken Nazi U-boat from World War II. But soon the men's greed begins to overtake them, and not all of them may make it back alive. Watch below! Here's the first trailer for Kevin Macdonald's Black Sea from Focus Features: Black Sea is directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, The Eagle, Life in a Day...
- 10/2/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Former Scott Free London exec Liza Marshall and Kick-Ass and One Chance producer Kris Thykier are partnering in new UK-based production company, Archery Pictures. The pair will work across film and television with Thykier shuttering his PeaPie Films and moving both the staff and development slate over to Archery. He’s currently in post on Woman In Gold with Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds, is producing Kasper Barfoed’s Summer of ‘92, and exec producing John Wells’ Bradley Cooper-starrer Adam Jones for The Weinstein Company. Upcoming releases, Stephen Daldry’s Trash, and Asif Kapadia’s Ali & Nino will go out under the PeaPie banner.
Marshall is a respected exec who recently stepped down from her role as head of Ridley Scott’s Scott Free London which she established in 2009. Her producing and exec producing credits include Before I Go To Sleep with Nicole Kidman, Welcome To The Punch starring James McAvoy...
Marshall is a respected exec who recently stepped down from her role as head of Ridley Scott’s Scott Free London which she established in 2009. Her producing and exec producing credits include Before I Go To Sleep with Nicole Kidman, Welcome To The Punch starring James McAvoy...
- 9/29/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Liza Marshall is to step down as head of Ridley Scott’s London-based TV and film production arm Scott Free UK.
Since joining Scott Free UK in 2009, Marshall has overseen film projects including Welcome the Punch, Get Santa, Before I Go To Sleep and Kevin Macdonald’s documentary Life in a Day, as well as TV miniseries Labyrinth and upcoming Steven Knight TV project Taboo.
Marshall is understood to have been one of those approached by UK broadcaster Channel 4 as a potential replacement for outgoing Film4 boss Tessa Ross. However, as announced this week, the position was filled by Universal Pictures’ international chief David Kosse.
Before joining Scott Free, Marshall was head of drama at Channel 4.
The news was first reported by Variety and confirmed to Screen by Scott Free UK, which declined to comment further.
Since joining Scott Free UK in 2009, Marshall has overseen film projects including Welcome the Punch, Get Santa, Before I Go To Sleep and Kevin Macdonald’s documentary Life in a Day, as well as TV miniseries Labyrinth and upcoming Steven Knight TV project Taboo.
Marshall is understood to have been one of those approached by UK broadcaster Channel 4 as a potential replacement for outgoing Film4 boss Tessa Ross. However, as announced this week, the position was filled by Universal Pictures’ international chief David Kosse.
Before joining Scott Free, Marshall was head of drama at Channel 4.
The news was first reported by Variety and confirmed to Screen by Scott Free UK, which declined to comment further.
- 8/8/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn, Andrew Niccol’s Good Kill and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence among competition titles.Scroll down for full lists
The line-up for the 71st Venice Film Festival (Aug 27-Sept 6) has been revealed this morning by Biennale president Paolo Baratta and film festival director Alberto Barbera at Rome’s St. Regis Grand Hotel.
Early standouts include Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini, which centres on the final days of the Italian filmmaker and his death in 1975; David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn, starring Al Pacino as a locksmith in a small town who never got over the love of his life; and The Look Of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer’s highly anticipated follow-up to his award-winning documentary, The Act of Killing.
As previously announced, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, starring Michael Keaton, will open the festival on August 27 and is among the 20-strong competition titles, of which all...
The line-up for the 71st Venice Film Festival (Aug 27-Sept 6) has been revealed this morning by Biennale president Paolo Baratta and film festival director Alberto Barbera at Rome’s St. Regis Grand Hotel.
Early standouts include Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini, which centres on the final days of the Italian filmmaker and his death in 1975; David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn, starring Al Pacino as a locksmith in a small town who never got over the love of his life; and The Look Of Silence, Joshua Oppenheimer’s highly anticipated follow-up to his award-winning documentary, The Act of Killing.
As previously announced, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, starring Michael Keaton, will open the festival on August 27 and is among the 20-strong competition titles, of which all...
- 7/24/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Directors with shorts at the Jerusalem Film Festival are readying an intriguing slate of features, including an ambitious period drama about Judas Iscariot, a documentary omnibus about life in the West Bank and a drama about gay life in Israel.
Directing duo Ehab Tarabieh and Yoav Gross, whose Berlin Golden Bear nominee Smile, and the World Will Smile Back charts the exchange between a Palestinian family (the al-Haddad family are co-directors) and Israeli soldiers, are planning a Life In A Day-style doc omnibus about life in the West Bank.
As was the case with Smile, participating families will be encouraged to take an active part in the post-production process with camera training also available. Funding is likely to come from B’Tselem.
Recent Tel Aviv Film School graduate Shira Porat, director of short Has Anyone Seen Eyal Nurich?, is on course to renew her collaboration with her award-winning lead actress Hadas Yaron (Fill The Void) in...
Directing duo Ehab Tarabieh and Yoav Gross, whose Berlin Golden Bear nominee Smile, and the World Will Smile Back charts the exchange between a Palestinian family (the al-Haddad family are co-directors) and Israeli soldiers, are planning a Life In A Day-style doc omnibus about life in the West Bank.
As was the case with Smile, participating families will be encouraged to take an active part in the post-production process with camera training also available. Funding is likely to come from B’Tselem.
Recent Tel Aviv Film School graduate Shira Porat, director of short Has Anyone Seen Eyal Nurich?, is on course to renew her collaboration with her award-winning lead actress Hadas Yaron (Fill The Void) in...
- 7/13/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Karlovy Vary’s industry days continued today with the Pitch & Feedback initiative, including the new film from My Dog Killer director Mira Fornay, alongside the Docu Talents from the East showcase.
Czech and Slovak filmmakers presented seven projects in development, which are considered to have international co-production potential.
Among these was Cook, F**k, Kill (Frogs With No Tongues), the third feature from Slovakian filmmaker Mira Fornay, described an absurdist drama about domestic violence.
First pitched at the Sofia Meetings in March, the film follows her 2009 feature debut Little Foxes and 2013’s My Dog Killer, which won a Tiger Award at last year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam and was Slovakia’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Oscar.
Cook, F**k, Kill is produced by Fornay’s company, Mirafox, and is slated to shoot in spring 2015 for release in spring 2016 with a budget of €1.15m.
Fornay said of the film: “I believe that my absurd drama rendered...
Czech and Slovak filmmakers presented seven projects in development, which are considered to have international co-production potential.
Among these was Cook, F**k, Kill (Frogs With No Tongues), the third feature from Slovakian filmmaker Mira Fornay, described an absurdist drama about domestic violence.
First pitched at the Sofia Meetings in March, the film follows her 2009 feature debut Little Foxes and 2013’s My Dog Killer, which won a Tiger Award at last year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam and was Slovakia’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Oscar.
Cook, F**k, Kill is produced by Fornay’s company, Mirafox, and is slated to shoot in spring 2015 for release in spring 2016 with a budget of €1.15m.
Fornay said of the film: “I believe that my absurd drama rendered...
- 7/8/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
During its presentation at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Microsoft made several announcements about its Halo franchise. In particular, it dished out plenty of details about Ridley Scott's upcoming Halo: Nightfall web series, which is now slated for a November 11th release date. Nightfall will be co-produced by Scott's Scott Free TV and 343 Industries, which previously wowed Halo fans with the Forward Unto Dawn web series. 343 Industries is also working on a separate series will Steven Spielberg, though new rumors suggest that series will come to TV via Showtime instead of debuting on the web. Nightfall will be packaged as part of a collection that will include all four previously-released Halo games. The digital feature is meant to bridge the gap between past Halo installments, which feature Master Chief as their protagonist, and Halo 5, which will feature a new hero. “Nightfall is a specific story that basically connects the past to the future,...
- 6/9/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
South Korean star of Life in a Day to get his own feature length documentary.
A feature length documentary is currently in production based on Okhwan Yoon, the South Korean star of Kevin Macdonald’s Life in a Day.
Okhwan is a former businessman from Seoul who gave up his professional career to embark on a ten-year long cycling trip through 192 countries.
Slovakian film-maker Marek Mackovic, director and producer, commented: “Okhwan’s story is as jaw-dropping as it is poignant. It’s the ultimate tale of endurance and perseverance.
“There were times when we as the film crew simply couldn’t go on and Okhwan would still have this boundless energy, that was truly an inspiration.”
Okhwan is a Slovak/UK co-production, supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund.
A feature length documentary is currently in production based on Okhwan Yoon, the South Korean star of Kevin Macdonald’s Life in a Day.
Okhwan is a former businessman from Seoul who gave up his professional career to embark on a ten-year long cycling trip through 192 countries.
Slovakian film-maker Marek Mackovic, director and producer, commented: “Okhwan’s story is as jaw-dropping as it is poignant. It’s the ultimate tale of endurance and perseverance.
“There were times when we as the film crew simply couldn’t go on and Okhwan would still have this boundless energy, that was truly an inspiration.”
Okhwan is a Slovak/UK co-production, supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund.
- 5/13/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The Internet and digital filmmaking tools have opened up new possibilities of crowdsourcing material–Life in a Day, Declaration of Interdependence, One Day on Earth, even the interactive Star Wars Uncut–and given new life to the omnibus/anthology film format. The latest project to adopt the form is 50 Kisses, a film created by the London-based Chris Jones and hundreds of collaborators from around the world. The film, which includes 50 scenes built around a Valentine’s Day and a kiss, premiered on February 13–the day before Valentine’s–at the Genesis Cinema in London’s East End. Further distribution is now rolling out. Jones, a filmmaker […]...
- 3/11/2014
- by Randy Astle
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The Internet and digital filmmaking tools have opened up new possibilities of crowdsourcing material–Life in a Day, Declaration of Interdependence, One Day on Earth, even the interactive Star Wars Uncut–and given new life to the omnibus/anthology film format. The latest project to adopt the form is 50 Kisses, a film created by the London-based Chris Jones and hundreds of collaborators from around the world. The film, which includes 50 scenes built around a Valentine’s Day and a kiss, premiered on February 13–the day before Valentine’s–at the Genesis Cinema in London’s East End. Further distribution is now rolling out. Jones, a filmmaker […]...
- 3/11/2014
- by Randy Astle
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The celebrated Scottish director Kevin Macdonald is known for his magisterially mounted, adult-inclined works of fiction that are shaded in politics and personal hardships. His movies have leaned toward Oscar glory (Forest Whitaker won Best Actor for his terrifying turn in The Last King of Scotland), while other films have displayed his particular talent for singling out narrative greatness in true-life stories (Marley most recently, and Life in a Day and Touching The Void before it).
His latest film, How I Live Now, which was released last year, is being released on DVD on February 10th – and to celebrate that fact, he dedicated some of his precious time to give HeyUGuys the lowdown on why young actors are better than old ones, his fondness for pulling the rug from beneath the viewer, and what the future holds for him (submarines, apparently). Beware: minor spoilers ahead.
Obviously, How I Live Now...
His latest film, How I Live Now, which was released last year, is being released on DVD on February 10th – and to celebrate that fact, he dedicated some of his precious time to give HeyUGuys the lowdown on why young actors are better than old ones, his fondness for pulling the rug from beneath the viewer, and what the future holds for him (submarines, apparently). Beware: minor spoilers ahead.
Obviously, How I Live Now...
- 2/11/2014
- by Gary Green
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
None of the dozens of ads aired during last night's Super Bowl can hold a candle to '1984', the groundbreaking TV spot that helped turn Apple Computers into a household name. 30 years after that commercial first aired, Apple has come a long way, and it has paid tribute to '1984' with a new ad filmed entirely on iPhones. '1984' was all about going against the norm, but the new spot, titled '1.24.14', shows that Apple now is the norm. It features footage of Apple products from around the world, all shot using other Apple products. In contrast to the original ad, the message comes out somewhere along the lines of, 'Apple is always watching you.' How ironic. '1.24.14' would've made a great Super Bowl ad, but Apple instead took the same approach as some other brands and skipped the Big Game entirely, posting the video directly to YouTube.
- 2/3/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
A few years ago, exec producer Ridley Scott and The Last King of Scotland/Into the Void director Kevin Macdonald teamed up for a pretty impressive crowdsourced documentary. Life in a Day collected footage from all around the world to show people what it was like to be alive on July 24th, 2010. The feature length documentary premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is available to watch on YouTube right now, and a holiday themed variation on that idea has arrived in the form of Christmas in a Day. Macdonald scales the scope back a bit by only featuring submissions from people celebrating Christmas in the United Kingdom. It's a nice dose of genuine Yuletide joy to check out on the day after Christmas. Watch it below! Here's the full documentary Christmas in a Day, direct from Sainsbury's (via The Film Stage): Christmas in a Day is a document...
- 12/26/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Such is the age we live in, that on a single day, countless hours of video footage capturing everything from the mundane to the sublime are captured on cellphones, webcams, digital cameras and more. It was the kernel that launched the crowd-sourced documentary "Life In a Day," which saw producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin Macdonald whittle down a staggering array of submitted footage from a single 24-hour period, and turned it into a feature-length snapshot of humanity around the world. And now that concept has come for the holiday season. Macdonald has teamed with U.K. supermarket giant Sainsbury for "Christmas In a Day." And yes, you guessed right, this time the concept is focused on Christmas, with Macdonald working through material provided by a vast array of Brits in 2012, putting together a 50-minute profile of the holiday in England. And it's worth a spin. While it certainly highlights...
- 12/19/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The teenager whose illness is a moving highlight of the director's Christmas documentary is now on the mend
No one who watches Kevin Macdonald's new documentary film will forget the scene: standing at the hospital bedside of his desperately sick grandson on Christmas Day last year, 90-year-old Bill Reid, a former second world war pilot, has only one wish. He asks for the chance to see his entire family together again next Christmas Day. And it seems that, a year on, his wish has been granted.
The sickroom vignette – which shows 20-year-old Will Pope's efforts to speak, as he lies, surrounded by his relatives and attached to life-support machines – forms a key moment in Macdonald's latest cinematic collage, Christmas in a Day, about the British approach to the festive season. The Oscar-winning director, who made The Last King of Scotland and Touching the Void, has put together footage...
No one who watches Kevin Macdonald's new documentary film will forget the scene: standing at the hospital bedside of his desperately sick grandson on Christmas Day last year, 90-year-old Bill Reid, a former second world war pilot, has only one wish. He asks for the chance to see his entire family together again next Christmas Day. And it seems that, a year on, his wish has been granted.
The sickroom vignette – which shows 20-year-old Will Pope's efforts to speak, as he lies, surrounded by his relatives and attached to life-support machines – forms a key moment in Macdonald's latest cinematic collage, Christmas in a Day, about the British approach to the festive season. The Oscar-winning director, who made The Last King of Scotland and Touching the Void, has put together footage...
- 12/8/2013
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Kids. Such as Sex, Lies, and Videotape or Reservoir Dogs before it, and such as Winter’s Bone, Blue Valentine and Fruitvale Station after it, Larry Clark & Harmony Korine’s seminal film is forever connected in “spirit” to the lieu where it received its secret midnight premiere screening in 1995. The Sundance Film Festival might be known as the birthplace of U.S indie filmmaking innovation, avant-gardism, a larger definition of the low budgeted film response to Hollywood in not only narrative but in the non-fiction form, but it is a festival made strong by its renewal and familiarity. That close acquaintanceness exists in Kids‘ starlets Rosario Dawson and Chloë Sevigny filmography/career path trajectory and connection to Park City (both have several indie films slated for ’14 – of which I’ve included in our predictions list) and it is that “familiarity” that is visibly noticeable in how I map out my annual predictions list.
- 11/18/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The supermarket is filling pre-Christmas TV spots with clips from a Kevin Macdonald documentary to be shown on YouTube
An excitable small boy bouncing around a room in pyjamas as he sees his presents, old ladies dancing in Christmas hats and a man eating Christmas dinner alone after careful preparations aided by his annual planning spreadsheet all play a part in Sainsbury's festive campaign – the last of the major retailers' TV ads to launch.
In a radically different take on the annual ads bonanza, Sainsbury's will devote a number of its pre-Christmas TV spots to clips from a new documentary created by The Last King of Scotland and Marley director Kevin Macdonald.
The 50 minute film, which was funded by the supermarket, aims to tell the story of Christmas Day in Britain through a carefully edited patchwork of home videos shot last year. The film took 14 months to create from over...
An excitable small boy bouncing around a room in pyjamas as he sees his presents, old ladies dancing in Christmas hats and a man eating Christmas dinner alone after careful preparations aided by his annual planning spreadsheet all play a part in Sainsbury's festive campaign – the last of the major retailers' TV ads to launch.
In a radically different take on the annual ads bonanza, Sainsbury's will devote a number of its pre-Christmas TV spots to clips from a new documentary created by The Last King of Scotland and Marley director Kevin Macdonald.
The 50 minute film, which was funded by the supermarket, aims to tell the story of Christmas Day in Britain through a carefully edited patchwork of home videos shot last year. The film took 14 months to create from over...
- 11/13/2013
- by Sarah Butler
- The Guardian - Film News
The Oscar winner's documentary, produced by Ridley Scott Associates and Scott Free London, wants to bring to live how Britain "really celebrates Christmas."
London – Oscar-winning British director Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September) is putting the finishing touches on a Christmas version of his Life in a Day documentary, which spliced together footage shot on a single day in 2010 by people around the world tasked with capturing a moment of their lives on camera.
Macdonald's Christmas in a Day aims to bring to life how Britain "really celebrates Christmas." Life in a Day has attracted more than eight million views on YouTube to date.
Macdonald’s new film, produced by Ridley Scott Associates and Scott Free London, is comprised of footage filmed by regular people. Christmas in a Day was created by Macdonald from over 360 hours of festive footage submitted by people from all over the U.K.
The feature-length...
London – Oscar-winning British director Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September) is putting the finishing touches on a Christmas version of his Life in a Day documentary, which spliced together footage shot on a single day in 2010 by people around the world tasked with capturing a moment of their lives on camera.
Macdonald's Christmas in a Day aims to bring to life how Britain "really celebrates Christmas." Life in a Day has attracted more than eight million views on YouTube to date.
Macdonald’s new film, produced by Ridley Scott Associates and Scott Free London, is comprised of footage filmed by regular people. Christmas in a Day was created by Macdonald from over 360 hours of festive footage submitted by people from all over the U.K.
The feature-length...
- 11/13/2013
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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