The Global Lives Japan project seeking translators for subtitles
The NGO initiative Global Lives Japan is seeking Japanese-English translators to subtitle the 24-hour documentary that will be shown throughout the world in 2009. Please check globallives.org regarding this media project which holds as it core to create awareness regarding social change. Each volunteer translator will be asked to translate 30min-60 minute part of the documentary. Thanks to a wonderful program available on Internet you can do the translation from your own home at
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CONTACT: irenecarolina.herrera@gmail.com
Please also read the following for more information regarding the project:
The Global Lives Project is an initiative that was first conceptualized by David Harris, a California-born sociologist who has lived and traveled in Asia and South America. The goal of the Global Lives Project is to document 24 consecutive hours in the lives of ten people in ten different countries.
The final 240 hours of footage will be exhibited in an itinerant exhibition ensemble that will include 10 chambers where visitors will be allowed to peek into the reality of ordinary people from countries as diverse as Brazil, Malawi, Indonesia, India, United States and Japan.
The selection of the ten subjects follows a methodology based on statistics taken from the United Nations and the Population Reference Bureau on gender, age, income, religion, and location.
In order to avoid the reinforcement of stereotypes, the methodology behind the subject selection aims to produce a representative portrait of the world’s population.
The Japan Shoot
The subject selected for the Japan shoot is Rumi Nagashima, a 22-year old senior university student at Atomi University in Tokyo, who has accepted to allow the crew to follow and film her for 24 hours non-stop starting at 8am Sunday July 22, 2007.
Rumi, who has become Global Lives’ fourth participant, is an active member of her community and participates in many social and community activities.
To be exhibited in the US and Brazil in 2009, the Global Lives Project hopes to provide a space for contemplation and reflection by screening the daily experiences and struggles of men, women and children of different ethnic, religious and social backgrounds all at once.
Global Lives, an NPO presently raising funds in the US and Brazil, is currently searching for a museum or other public institution in Japan to host the installation when it is completed in 2009. Installations are currently being planned for São Paulo, Brazil, New York and San Francisco.