Festivals - Sundance Film Festival 2021 : Life in a day 2020 directed Kevin Macdonald will have its world premiere

By Mulder, 30 december 2020

Ten years after the 2011 Sundance Film Festival premiere of Life in a Day, award-winning director Kevin Macdonald returns to Sundance to present the story of another day on Earth: July 25, 2020. Following the concept of the original, Life in a Day 2020 is an extremely ambitious crowdsourced documentary, this one compiled from 15,000 hours of footage submitted from 192 countries and made in collaboration with YouTube and Ridley Scott’s RSA Films.

Social interaction was a tricky thing in 2020. In-person experiences were deemed unsafe, so we had to find new ways to gather and to stay connected. And this is exactly what Life in a Day 2020, an extraordinary collective effort, does: It unites individuals from around the world and creates a feeling of connectivity, a sense of belonging. Macdonald masterfully combines seemingly unrelated snapshots into beautiful stories—stories of love, loss, struggle, parenthood, and everything in between. It’s a very special “action” movie, a reminder that there’s real beauty in our everyday lives, even though it might not always seem that way.

Synopsis :
Life In A Day 2020 will call on millions of people around the world to film their lives on July 25.

Life in a day 2020 (United Kingdom/U.S.A)
Directed by Kevin Macdonald
Produced by Jack Arbuthnott, Tim Partridge
Executive Producers : Ridley Scott, Kai-Lu Hsiung
Post-Production Producer : Charlotte Dean
Edited by Nse Asuquo, Mdhamiri Á Nkemi, Sam Rice-Edwards
Release date : February 2, 2021 (Sundance)
Running time : 90 minutes

Premiere : feb. 2 - 12:00am // Second screening : feb. 3 - 4:00pm (local time)

(Source : press release)