Story by
Chad Catacchio
Chad Catacchio is a contributor writing on a variety of topics in tech. He has held management positions at a number of tech companies in th Chad Catacchio is a contributor writing on a variety of topics in tech. He has held management positions at a number of tech companies in the US and China. Check out his personal blog to connect with him or follow him on Twitter (if you dare).
YouTube’s worldwide documentary “Life in a Day“, produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin MacDonald will premier at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2011 at 8:15PM EST.
The 94 minute movie will be shown during a live broadcast from Sundance, followed by a live Q&A from MacDonald. YouTube will then replay the movie shortly afterwards, and will release it as a YouTube video later in the year.
According to a post on the YouTube Blog, the hour and a half film – which documents one specific day in July earlier this year, was culled from 5,000 hours of video from 80,000 users in 192 countries – all from that one day. Here’s a video message from MacDonald, who seems like one tired guy (you probably would be too if you just turned 5,000 hours of video into 1.5 hours):
Get the TNW newsletter
Get the most important tech news in your inbox each week.