LOS ANGELES, May 9 -- PANGEA DAY, a global day of film,
speakers, and music watched simultaneously around the world will take place
this Saturday, May 10, 2008.
Millions of people all over the world will come together this Saturday
at 18:00 GMT to watch a 4-hour program of short films, coupled with talks
from CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Queen Noor of Jordan, child soldier Ishmael
Beah, and many more. The program will be hosted by Lisa Ling, Current TV's
Max and Jason, and June Arunga. Pangea Day will also include live music,
including performances by The Eurythmics' Dave Stewart, Gilberto Gil, Rokia
Traore, Mohamed Mounir and Iranian rock band Hypernova.
Pangea Day will be broadcast live from six cities, Los Angeles, London,
Kigali, Rio de Janeiro, Cairo, and Mumbai.
L.A. Attendees include Lawrence Bender, Cameron Diaz, Goldie Hawn, Meg
Ryan, Jeff Skoll, and many more.
Broadcasters worldwide will carry the Pangea Day program live,
subtitled in seven languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Hindi,
Portuguese, Spanish, and through multiple forms of media.
-- Worldwide: CNN International (highlights only)
-- Africa: Rwanda TV, Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation, Star World, Magic
World (M-Net)
-- Asia: Star World, Metro TV, DigiTurk IZ TV, MediaCorp Singapore
-- Australia/Oceania: NZTV - TVNZ 6
-- Europe: Canal+ / Planete, DigiTurk IZ TV, Sky Movies Indie Channel,
LTV2, Current TV, YKS Italy
-- Middle East: Star World
-- North America: KW Networks, V-Me, OnceTV, Citytv Canada, Current TV
-- South America: MGM Networks Latin America, Multishow (Globosat), City
TV Colombia
MSN International will stream the live 4-hour program in 23 of its
markets: Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Arabia, Australia, Canada, UK,
Indonesia, Ireland, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore,
South Africa, Spain, Latin America, Mexico, Belgium, Switzerland, France,
and Brazil. MSN is a world leader in delivering web services to consumers
and will be the exclusive online live streaming partner. The live webcast
will also be streamed on PangeaDay.org.
The program will also be available on video-enabled mobile phones
(point mobile phone to mobile.pangeaday.org)
Thousands registered Friends of Pangea Day watch parties being planned
in over 100 countries. To attend a local event, visit
http://www.pangeaday.org/attend_map.php.
Pangea Day, with support from Nokia, is encouraging people around the
world to share their photos and videos on ovi.com/pangeaday for inclusion
in the broadcast.
The program will feature 24 short films selected from an international
competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from 105 countries.
Films were chosen based on their ability to inspire, transform and allow us
to see the world through another person's eyes.
UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, collaborated with Pangea Day to
distribute Nokia video-enabled mobile phones to refugees in Afghanistan,
Chad, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Eritrea, India,
Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Sudan and the United
States.
The Pangea Day program will also include the five winning films from
2008 Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards.
About Pangea Day:
Inspired by the 2006 TED Prize wish of documentary filmmaker Jehane
Noujaim, Pangea Day endeavors to bring the world together and promote
understanding and tolerance through film. Pangea Day is a celebration of
what unites us, rather than what divides us. Movies can't change the world.
But the people who watch them can. After May 10, Pangea Day organizers will
facilitate community-building activities around the world by connecting
inspired viewers with organizations doing groundbreaking work. For more
information, please visit http://www.pangeaday.org.
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