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title: "Pangea Day : Wish To Reality"
url: https://thecancerus.com/pangea-day-wish-to-reality/
date: 2008-04-18
modified: 2008-04-18
author: "ican"
description: "Jehane Noujaim, wanted to use films and photographs to create a powerful emotions in the heart of people watching them, and entice them to do something together to achieve world..."
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# Pangea Day : Wish To Reality

[Jehane Noujaim](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehane_Noujaim), wanted to use films and photographs to create a powerful emotions in the heart of people watching them, and entice them to do something together to achieve world peace.

So in Nov 2006, on [TED platform](http://www.ted.com) she wished for a day in which the world will come together through films, she named it Pangea day. She was granted $100,000 [TED Prize](http://www.ted.com/index.php/pages/view/id/6) to fulfill her wish.

She called it Pangea because, [*Pangea*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea) means *entire earth* in ancient Greek, was super continent that existed before it was split into current continents .

> I wish to bring the world together for one day a year through the power of film.
Her acceptance speech at TED

[utube]QCFSrb6B5nw[/utube]

On Saturday, May 10 her wish will become a reality. On this day live events in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be converted into a 4 hour program that will be broadcast live to millions of people worldwide via [internet](http://pangeaday.org/online.php), [television](http://pangeaday.org/television.php) and [mobile phones](http://pangeaday.org/mobile.php).

Starting at [18:00 GMT](http://pangeaday.org/local_time.php)(23:30 IST), the event will be broadcasted with subtitles in Arabic, English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese and Spanish.

During the four hours we will see 24 short films(out of 2500 submissions) , Queen Noor of Jordan, Christiane Amanpour of CNN, Bob Geldof an musician and Hypernova an Iranian rock band.

Pangea Day will be broadcasted by following Broadcasters

- **Canal +/Planete** - France
- **City TV** - Colombia
- **Current TV** - USA
- **DigiTurk** - Turkey
- **Globosat** - Brazil
- **KW Networks** - Mexico
- **Mediacorp** - Singapore
- **Metro TV** - Indonesia
- **MGM Networks Latin America** - Latin America
- **TVNZ** - New Zealand
- **OnceTV **- Mexico
- **Rwanda TV** - Rwanda
- **Sky Indie** - UK
- **Star TV** - 60 countries in Asia
- **Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation** - Tanzania
- **TVR Televiziunea Româna** - Romania
- **V-Me TV** - US Hispanic

Pangea Day will be broadcast live from:

- **The Pyramids**, Cairo, Egypt
- **Jali Gardens**, Kigali, Rwanda
- **Somerset House**, London, United Kingdom
- **Sony Pictures Studios**, Los Angeles, USA
- **National Center for Performing Arts**, Mumbai, India
- **Morro da Urca**, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

**Note: **you can email pangeadaytickets@gmail.com to get the a free ticket to one of these locations.

After Pangea Day, [organizers of pangea](http://pangeaday.org/whosInvolved.php) day will connect inspired people to other inspired activists and organizations, so that they can work together to solve the challenges that we face. A Pangea Day documentary will also be created to catalyze future activities.

I just wanted to end this post with,

***Movies can't change the world. But the people who watch them can. ***

In other words, we can change the world around us, and Pangea day is one such event, from one such person's dream.

Let's Do Something.