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21 April 2012Celebrate Earth Day with ‘One Day on Earth’
“One Day on Earth,” the first feature-length documentary to include footage filmed in every country on Earth on the same day, will have its premiere on Earth Day—Sunday, April 22, 2012—with free screenings in more than 160 countries. Through our JustFilms initiative, the foundation supported the production of this remarkable film, and is co-sponsoring an Earth Day screening at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
To create the documentary, more than 19,000 filmmakers of all levels of experience contributed 3,000 hours of footage shot on Oct. 10, 2010 and Nov. 11, 2011. The project‘s founders, Kyle Ruddick and Brandon Litman—who serve, respectively, as director and executive producer—donated video cameras to more than 95 UN country offices.
The resulting footage includes video shot in remote villages of Papua New Guinea and Abyei, a district of South Sudan with a history of border disputes. Intended to be a vehicle for awareness, the film captures an array of human experiences, draws connections between crises around the world, and offers rarely seen images from life in North Korea, Iran and Kosovo. In addition, the collaboration resulted in a unique geo-tagging archive where users can view, download, share and comment on all the video contributions.
On April 22, the film will also screen at several World Heritage sites; CERN, the world-renowned particle physics research center; and many local venues from Cineteca Nacional de Chile, in Santiago, and Vivekavardhini High School in Bangalore, India, to Auditorium Goethe-Institut Jakarta, in Indonesia, and Labia Independent Cinema, in Cape Town, South Africa. Find out where screenings are being held in your community.
More Information
- Visit One Day on Earth online
- Learn more about the United Nations Screening
- Watch Kyle Ruddick‘s TED Talk
- View the global screening trailer and behind-the-scenes video
- Read coverage about the film in The New York Times and on Mashable
- Learn more about our JustFilms and Sustainable Development focus
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