Scott Free London is teaming with Japan’s Fuji TV to capture a snapshot of a day in Japan – marking the anniversary of last year’s deadly earthquake and tsunami.

Japan in a Day will feature footage filmed by people across the country during one 24-hour period and uploaded to www.youtube.com/Japaninaday

The best clips will be pieced together by Scott Free, the indie owned by directors Ridley and Tony Scott, and released internationally as a full-length documentary this autumn.

It is based on Life in a Day, which invited people from around the world to submit clips from their lives on one specific day.

For the Japanese version, the chosen day is 11 March – exactly one year after the earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 dead and caused reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the northwest of the country.

The film will focus on the disaster zone and Fuji is to distribute 200 cameras to residents of the worst hit areas of Iwate, Fukushima and Miyagi.

Scott Free is currently working on Britain in a Day, which will form part of the BBC’s Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival programming. People were asked to film something intimate and unique from their lives on 13 November.

It will air on BBC2 this summer.

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