Angelina Jolie's first directorial outing is A Place in Time, a documentary that takes three minutes in time across the globe and edits them together to tell a wonderful story of the world we live in.

Jolie had the assistance of many of her acting friends to travel the world and take a camera with them, and at the same precise moment turn them on and film a story. These names were people such as Sean Astin (Agentina), Colin Farrell (Italy), Ryan Gosline (Chad), Anne Hathaway (Cambodia) , Djimon Hounsou (Los Angeles), Jude Law (New Orleans), and Hillary Swank (New York).

I haven't heard much about the story until I caught a review over at S. Neil Vineberg' blog, and through the fawning arty speak we get to hear what it's really about:

Each person flew to a unique location in the world with a hand-held mini-DV camera. The crews filmed what they saw around them, as they prepared for the big moment - when everyone would turn on their cameras for three minutes. On January 11, 2005 at 12 noon Greenwich Mean Time, those cameras rolled in 27 locations - including USA (Wisconsin, NY, Nevada, Louisiana, South Dakota and California), Chad, Niger, Kosovo, Italy, Chad, China, Jordan, Lebanon, Mexico, Iceland, Antarctica and elsewhere.

I'm still not entirely sure what A Place in Time is about, but with her work outside Hollywood it's fair to say that this film is going to make a point about children, the world we live in, and just how small it really is.