Inspiring awareness and appreciation for mother
Earth, ‘One Day on Earth’, a unique movie experience, was screened in
170 countries all over the world on April 22, to coincide with
International Earth Day. The film was also screened in Sri Lanka at
Liberty Cinema.
‘One Day on Earth’ is the first film made with the contribution of all countries on the same day, directed by Kyle Ruddick and produced by Brandon Littman. It’s simply about the cycle of human life. Exploring the progression of life from birth to death and birth again, ‘One Day on Earth’ employs images of birth, love, creativity, war and death. We all face unprecedented challenges and tragedies despite where we come from. Yet there is always hope and choice for a better future until the day we die.
‘One Day on Earth’ involved 3,000 hours of footage in 70 languages from 19,000 volunteer filmmakers around the world. All events features were filmed during a single day, October 10, 2010 (10.10.10) across the world. Not only professional filmmakers but amateur filmmakers across the world made their contribution to the making of this motion picture. All events that take place in the film are actual incidents that happened on the day around the world. People in the movie are not actors but normal people, who had no idea that they would be contributing to the making of a film that would be screened worldwide.
Featuring music by Grammy winners Paul Simon and Tinariwen, Fela Kuti, Sigur Rós, and DJ Cut Chemist, ‘One Day on Earth’ captures a dazzling array of human experiences, from the birth of a newborn in Mongolia to a woman who collects clocks in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. The film fluidly links crises from water shortage to poverty, connects people across the globe and offers rarely seen images from life in North Korea, Iran and Kosovo.
Filming in every country requires a lot of friends, supporters and resources. ‘One Day on Earth’ community has spent long days and nights establishing communication with organizations such as United Nations, Red Cross and Red Crescent, NGOs and filmmakers across the World. According to their records there were about 15,000 members of ‘One Day on Earth’ by the day it was filmed. Producers of the ‘One Day on Earth’ were very keen not to miss any of the significant events that happened on the October 10, 2010. Director Kyle Ruddick has mentioned that the movie is showing the poverty in a world of wealth, in a more encompassing manner than a foreign newspaper. The movie makes you feel more interconnected with the rest of the world fulfilling the dreams of its creators.
Beyond the film, the project has established a community platform of filmmakers worldwide and a shared public archive of video footage. The film has been financed by an array of sources, including significant support by the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative. ‘One Day on Earth’ online community founded in 2008, is set out to explore our planet’s identity and challenges including poverty, environment, education, gender equality, human rights, migrations and refugees, health, humanitarian aid and child welfare.
‘One Day on Earth’ is also hoping to release a film of the November 11, 2011 (11.11.11) footage. And it’s planning to attempt the same feat again on December 12, 2012 (12.12.12), compiling that footage into a feature film as well. With the simultaneous filming event they created on the Earth Day 2012, the world will wait for the next steps of ‘One Day on Earth’, the story of the world they try to tell.
April 29, 2012
Link : https://www.nation.lk/edition/environment/item/5404-%E2%80%98one-day-on-earth%E2%80%99-poverty-within-world-of-wealth.html
‘One Day on Earth’ is the first film made with the contribution of all countries on the same day, directed by Kyle Ruddick and produced by Brandon Littman. It’s simply about the cycle of human life. Exploring the progression of life from birth to death and birth again, ‘One Day on Earth’ employs images of birth, love, creativity, war and death. We all face unprecedented challenges and tragedies despite where we come from. Yet there is always hope and choice for a better future until the day we die.
‘One Day on Earth’ involved 3,000 hours of footage in 70 languages from 19,000 volunteer filmmakers around the world. All events features were filmed during a single day, October 10, 2010 (10.10.10) across the world. Not only professional filmmakers but amateur filmmakers across the world made their contribution to the making of this motion picture. All events that take place in the film are actual incidents that happened on the day around the world. People in the movie are not actors but normal people, who had no idea that they would be contributing to the making of a film that would be screened worldwide.
Featuring music by Grammy winners Paul Simon and Tinariwen, Fela Kuti, Sigur Rós, and DJ Cut Chemist, ‘One Day on Earth’ captures a dazzling array of human experiences, from the birth of a newborn in Mongolia to a woman who collects clocks in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. The film fluidly links crises from water shortage to poverty, connects people across the globe and offers rarely seen images from life in North Korea, Iran and Kosovo.
Filming in every country requires a lot of friends, supporters and resources. ‘One Day on Earth’ community has spent long days and nights establishing communication with organizations such as United Nations, Red Cross and Red Crescent, NGOs and filmmakers across the World. According to their records there were about 15,000 members of ‘One Day on Earth’ by the day it was filmed. Producers of the ‘One Day on Earth’ were very keen not to miss any of the significant events that happened on the October 10, 2010. Director Kyle Ruddick has mentioned that the movie is showing the poverty in a world of wealth, in a more encompassing manner than a foreign newspaper. The movie makes you feel more interconnected with the rest of the world fulfilling the dreams of its creators.
Beyond the film, the project has established a community platform of filmmakers worldwide and a shared public archive of video footage. The film has been financed by an array of sources, including significant support by the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative. ‘One Day on Earth’ online community founded in 2008, is set out to explore our planet’s identity and challenges including poverty, environment, education, gender equality, human rights, migrations and refugees, health, humanitarian aid and child welfare.
‘One Day on Earth’ is also hoping to release a film of the November 11, 2011 (11.11.11) footage. And it’s planning to attempt the same feat again on December 12, 2012 (12.12.12), compiling that footage into a feature film as well. With the simultaneous filming event they created on the Earth Day 2012, the world will wait for the next steps of ‘One Day on Earth’, the story of the world they try to tell.
April 29, 2012
Link : https://www.nation.lk/edition/environment/item/5404-%E2%80%98one-day-on-earth%E2%80%99-poverty-within-world-of-wealth.html
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