The 28th will be the last time it’s possible to see Life in a Day for a while — thanks to a pick-up by National Geographic Films, Life in a Day will premiere theatrically on July 24, 2011, exactly one year after the day that was chronicled by contributors to the project.

Credited to not just executive producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin MacDonald, but “the YouTube community,” Life in a Day promises to provide a global picture of the world using the microcosm of daily routine. According to the official press site, the 20 filmmakers featured in the film, who are attending tonight’s premiere are as follows:

• Massoud Hossaini – Kabul, Afghanistan
• Cristina Bocchialini, Ayman El Sayed Hassan – Cairo, Egypt
• Soma Helmi – Bali, Indonesia
• Hiroaki Aikawa, Taiji Aikawa – Tokyo, Japan
• Marek Mackovic, Okhwan Yoon – Kathmandu, Nepal
• Alberto Rauizo Gonzalez, Cain Abel Tapia Chavez, Aveliro Tapia – Arequipa, Peru
• Renat Ardilanov, Alexander Bayturin – Moscow, Russia
• Patricia Marinez del Hoyo, Toniu Xou, Virginia Salvado Segu, Araceli Segu Muste – Barcelona, Spain
• Boris Grishkevich – Zakarpatska, Ukraine
• Harvey Glen – Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Caryn Waechter – New York, NY – United States
• Christoper Brian Heerdt – Naperville, IL – United States
• David Jacques – Woonsocket, RI – United States
• Betsy DelValley – Urbana, IL – United States
• Bob Liginski, Jr., Bobby Liginski III, Catherine Anne Liginsky – Grayslake, IL – United States

But all of the additional footage from all of the other 79,980 filmmakers is still available on the Life in a Day gallery, browsable by an tagging system implemented by the team which catalogued all the submitted clips.

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Life In A Day is a collaboration between YouTube, acclaimed producer and director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner), and Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, The Last King of Scotland). Together, they’ve aimed to create a feature film from user-generated video submissions. The goal is to choose representative clips from the submissions and edit them into a documentary that will be unveiled at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. YouTube will also debut the film online on the same day that it is screened at Sundance.

YouTube asked users to submit clips from their lives on July 24, and they responded in droves, uploading more than 80,000 submissions from 197 countries around the globe, according to the YouTube blog. The Life In A Day gallery page showcases a number of videos in the shape of a globe and can be searched by geography or tags, depending on what the viewer is looking for. YouTube has even built a heat map to show which countries were most active in submitting videos.

Videos are being added to the gallery page as they are reviewed by Macdonald and his team, so more will become available as time goes on. With 80,000 entries, the director has his work cut out for him in whittling the submissions down into a feature-length film — but Sundance isn’t until January, so he still has several months.

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As part of the project, YouTube is asking its users to record moments from their lives on July 24, 2010 and upload those videos to the site. The most compelling moments will then be edited together by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, The Last King of Scotland) and released as a documentary at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. YouTube will debut the final cut of the film at the same day it is shown at the film festival.

YouTube says users can submit any video footage from July 24, so long as it is personal and doesn’t include trademarks or material — such as music, movie clips, etc. — that the user didn’t create. In addition to clips from their life during that day, Macdonald has asked users to answer a few other questions on film, such as “What do you love?,” “What do you fear?,” “What makes you laugh?,” and “What’s in your pocket? Is there a story behind any of the objects?”

According to the Wall Street Journal, executive producer Ridley Scott’s production company, Scott Free, will distribute between 400 and 500 digital cameras to non-profits in 20 different countries to ensure that people from communities that would not otherwise have access to that technology could participate. In addition, Macdonald has assembled an international team to help find and catalog usable non-English material.

Life In A Day follows other crowdsourced projects through which YouTube has solicited material from its users, including YouTube Play, a recent collaboration with the Guggenheim through which the site hopes to find innovative and artistic videos to be shown off at a presentation ceremony at the museum, and the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, which collected musical auditions from more than 3,000 users in 33 countries worldwide and culminated in the best participating in a concert at Carnegie Hall.

YouTube users that plan to contribute can upload multiple videos or just one cut from the day in question on the Life In A Day website by July 31. Whether or not their videos are chosen for the film, all of the videos submitted for the film will reside on a dedicated YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/lifeinaday. YouTube users won’t be paid for their videos, but contributors whose work makes the final cut of the film will be credited as co-directors, and up to 20 users will be selected to attend the premiere at Sundance.

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