Pangea Day - 10th May

[The Minister for Discord]

Pangea Day taps the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people to create a better future.

In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it's easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that -- to help people see themselves in others -- through the power of film.

On May 10, 2008 -- Pangea Day -- venues in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro will be linked to produce a 4-hour program of power films, visionary speakers, and uplifting music.

More importantly, the program will be broadcast live to the world through the Internet, television, digital cinemas, and mobile phones.

Of course, movies alone can't change the world. But the people who watch them can. So following May 10, 2008, Pangea Day organizers will facilitate community-building activities around the world connecting inspired viewers with numerous organizations which are already doing groundbreaking work.


Pangeaday.org

[The Minister for Discord]

Wheels up report from London
Avery writes:

How does one measure the impact of a moment of laughter or tears or shock shared between a neighbor, a stranger on the other side of the ocean, a friend in another time zone, an e-pal on the internet? How does one truly evaluate the effect of a film on an audience, on one person versus another? There are so many intervening factors, and yet, at least as I witnessed first-hand tonight in London, Pangea Day heaved opened a new window. A window wide enough for any two people to lean back and forth, to share a story, to whisper a fear, to giggle over a secret - wide enough for communication between three or four...million or more. As Christiane Amanpour and our Middle East friends reminded us tonight, change happens from within. The question remains who of the inspired will take action?