Calling all amateur filmmakers across India: Here's your chance to capture a slice of your life that could end up on the big screen.
Google said Thursday it is teaming up with filmmakers Ridley Scott, Richie Mehta and Anurag Kashyap to create a full-length user-generated movie called "India in a Day."
The company invited anyone with a camera or phone to film scenes on Oct. 10 and upload their footage to http://indiainaday.withgoogle.com.
Selected clips will be made into a movie scheduled to be released next year that will be directed by Mehta. Anyone whose footage is included will be listed as "co-director," a press release from Google Inc. said.
Scott, who will serve as an executive producer with Kashyap, said it did not matter how small or personal the footage was - from riding a bike to calling your mum. "It just simply needs to bear witness to what life is like in today's India - that's magical enough," he said.
Mehta, a Canadian filmmaker who directed "I'll Follow You Down," said the project was so personal to him that he believed that film was a perfect way to showcase what makes India "so extraordinary and dispel its myths."
Indian filmmakers R. Balki, Shekhar Kapur and Zoya Akhtar will serve as creative consultants.
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"Tell us what you love, what you hate, what worries you, what you hope for, what you want to change," said Kashyap.
