Academy Award-winning director Kevin MacDonald has made gripping documentaries and dramas before, including "One Day in September," for which he won an Oscar, "Touching the Void," "State of Play" and "The Last King of Scotland." But his latest film is unlike anything he's ever been a part of, he says.
For "Life in a Day," a 90-minute documentary film, MacDonald, with help from a team of researchers, pieced together real-life footage selected from more than 80,000 YouTube submissions (which added up to over 4,500 hours of tape) all shot on July 24, 2010, from all over the globe.
Despite the radical differences that separate human beings on earth, MacDonald says the thing that stands out is how fundamentally similar we all are. The most common subjects? Children, love, work, illness and death -- the whole life cycle is played out in a single 24-hour period.
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