Tag: SUNDANCE

By now, you've probably heard about the Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald project 'Life in a Day,' a film culled entirely from videos submitted to YouTube. (The project knits together videos that document how approximately 1,125 people spent July 24th, 2010.) The footage was culled from over 80,000 submissions, and whittled down to a feature-length film, which will be making its debut later today ...

Last July, renowned directors Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald implored the public to submit personal videos for a YouTube crowd-sourcing project titled, 'Life in a Day.' According to The Next Web, 1,125 submissions -- which were all captured on July 24th of 2010 -- eventually made the final cut. The finished product will reportedly debut January 27th at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival, but ...

We're getting a little sick of crowd-sourcing, but 'Life in a Day' -- a new project by Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald -- seems like it could have some promise, if only due to the cinematic weight that the directors bring to the table. Macdonald, who directed 'The Last King of Scotland,' and Scott, who directed sci-fi favorites like 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien,' have partnered with YouTube to ...

Share The now former CEO of Sun Microsystems shared his resignation with the world late last night. Via Twitter. In haiku form. "Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more." With those words Jonathan Schwartz stepped down from the position he's held since 2006, a move which is partially in response to the company being acquired by Oracle. According to the New York Times, ...

Following last year's 'Where the Wild Things Are,' director Spike Jonze has returned to the screen at the Sundance Film Festival with yet another work inspired by a children's book. Instead of stretching a 338-word book into a feature-length film, however, he's decided to keep things a bit more compact with his latest 30-minute short about robot love in Los Angeles. Inexplicably financed by ...

Could it be true? Is YouTube finally shedding its viral training wheels and pedaling its way up to the paid-content big kids' table? Sure seems like it. According to USA Today, YouTube plans to begin offering online movie rentals this week, in an attempt both to help independent filmmakers gain more exposure, and to test the waters of the paid-content market. Starting on Friday, YouTube will ...