YouTube Received Over 300,000 Submissions for ‘Life in a Day 2020’ Documentary Sequel
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorHere’s a daunting editing assignment: Take more than 300,000 videos and boil them down into one 90-minute documentary film.For YouTube’s forthcoming “Life In A Day 2020,” the video platform says it received more than 300,000 submissions from 191 countries in more than 65 languages, representing thousands of hours of footage, all recorded on the same day: July 25, 2020.The film project, “Life in a Day 2020,” comes 10 years after the original YouTube-commissioned documentary, which garnered 80,000 submissions back in 2010 from the same day (July 24, 2010). Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald is returning as director, reteaming with executive producer Ridley Scott.