'Life in a Day' Director Kevin Macdonald on Working With Ridley Scott and Wading Through 81,000 Submissions for His Film (Berlin)

Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald is a director in demand. Recently in Los Angeles to help promote his sword and sandals epic The Eagle starring Channing Tatum for Focus Features, Macdonald is also putting the finishing touches to a biopic about reggae legend Bob Marley which is being sold at the European Film Market after the director picked up the reins from Martin Scorsese. He's also behind Life in a Day, a project that could only be birthed from the digital age: A documentary woven together by Macdonald from hours and hours of footage gathered on a single day in July 2010 sent in by YouTube users around the world, the movie is exec produced by filmmakers Ridley and Tony Scott. Macdonald talks to The Hollywood Reporter's Stuart Kemp about being nervous when he sent the first rough cut to Ridley, finding global humor dull and a macabre submission that ended up on the cutting room floor.