Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part ...
'', June 13, 2017. Created to mark the
150th anniversary of Canada
The 150th anniversary of Canada, also known as the 150th anniversary of Confederation and promoted by the Canadian government as Canada 150, occurred in 2017 as Canada marked the sesquicentennial of Canadian Confederation.
Planning
Major pl ...
in 2017 and inspired by the 2011 film '' Life in a Day'', the film portrayed a snapshot of Canadian life over a period of 24 hours.
In 2016, CTV announced that people across Canada were being invited to film the events of their lives on September 10, 2016. A total of 16,818 videos were received, which were then distilled into a two-hour film by Dolman and editor
Nick Hector
Nick Hector is a British Canadian film producer and editor, and professor of film production at the University of Windsor.
Career
Hector collaborated with Canadian filmmaker Allan King and exclusively cut his films during the last decade of K ...
. Out of all the country-specific ''Life in a Day'' sequels that have been released since 2011, ''Canada in a Day'' received the third-highest number of submissions behind only ''
Italy in a Day
''Italy in a Day - Un giorno da italiani'' is a 2014 Italian-British documentary film directed by Gabriele Salvatores. It was part of the Out of Competition section at the 71st Venice International Film Festival.
Salvatores used the crowdsource ...
'' and ''Spain in a Day''.
The film premiered on CTV on June 25, 2017, and was repeated on July 1 on CTV and July 2 on
CTV Two
CTV 2 is a Canadian English-language television system owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc. The system consists of four terrestrial owned-and-operated television stations (O&Os) in Ontario, one in British Columbia and two regional cabl ...
.
The film won two
Canadian Screen Awards
The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media (web series) p ...
at the
6th Canadian Screen Awards
The 6th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 11, 2018, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2017.
CTV News
CTV News is the news division of the CTV Television Network in Canada. The name ''CTV News'' is also applied as the title of local and regional newscasts on the network's owned-and-operated stations (O&Os), which are closely tied to the national ...