Italians around the globe can submit footage of their lives on 26 October 2013 to Italian TV’s RAI website for the ‘Italy In A Day’ social filmmaking project.
Oscar-winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatores will select and edit the footage, which will be turned into a 90-minute movie. RAI will air ‘Italy In A Day’ on television and release it as a film for cinemas in 2014.
Italians can make their digital submissions using a phone, camera or tablet. Information on how to participate in the first collaborative film by Italian citizens is at the RAI site http://www.italyinaday.it. Videos can be uploaded until 17 November 2013. The project is a collaboration between RAI Cinema and multimedia company Indiana Production.
Salvatores won the 1991 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for ‘Mediterraneo’. More recently he has directed ‘Io non ho paura’ (I’m Not Scared, 2003) and ‘Come Dio comanda’ (As God Commands, 2008). He told journalists at a press conference announcing ‘Italy In A Day’ that he was excited by its creative potential because it provides the opportunity for Italians to film whatever they want to create “a symphony of images” and millions of viewpoints.
The movie is part of Oscar-winning English film director Sir Ridley Scott’s user-generated documentary project ‘Life In A Day’, which was announced in 2010 and released a year later. Subsequently, Fuji TV licensed the format for ‘Japan In A Day’ and the BBC for ‘Britain In A Day’.
