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World: 7/24/2010

That’s the day Oscar-winning director Kevin McDonald (Last King of Scotland) and Hollywood icon Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) asked the people of the world to document what they did that day and send their video chronicles to YouTube. The result? More than 80,000 submissions from 192 countries. The basis for the world’s biggest documentary. McDonald and team edited it down to about 90 minutes. That crowdsourced final cut debuted tonight at Sundance. Early reports: Reaction among festivalgoers ranged from hilarity to unabashed weeping. Watch the teaser below. The actual film will be live-streamed again (outside the United States) on YouTube on Friday at 7 p.m. in your time zone. Wherever your time zone is on this blue jewel of the planet we call home. 

  

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Photo: Life in a Day poster © 2011 Scott Free, et al.