TED.com on Pangea Day

TED.com stands for technology, entertainment, and design, and is a great resource website. Awesome speakers and videos.

Anyway, a TED winner/speaker initiated Pangea Day for this coming May 10, 2008. Maybe you know of someone who wants to make a short film about the environment, indigenous peoples, urban issues, Gawad Kalinga?, etc. Maybe even Manila could be a part of this event. Check out the YouTube intro film entitled Can Your Film change the World?

Best,

Hecky

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Subject: TED Prize video hits youtube home page!

Dear Friends of TED, Now this is exciting. A powerful, 2-minute TED video has just been given star billing at YouTube and I need your help to get it to spread further… The video heralds the launch of Pangea Day, called for by 2006 TED prize winner, Jehane Noujaim. For the next 24 hours, it is being featured on YouTube’s global home-page as well as all nine of YouTube’s international home-pages. Maybe it's just me, but every time I see this trailer, it sets my spine a-tingling. I hope you’ll take a minute to view it, rate it, write a quick comment about it and then blog it, or pass the link along to friends. Each of these actions will have a multiplying effect and will help us reach out to thousands of film-makers around the world who we need to submit content for possible inclusion in Pangea Day The project is taking off, and its ambition level is spectacular. On May 10, 2008 - Pangea Day - Jehane’s wish will come to fruition as sites in New York City, Rio, London, Dharamsala, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Kigali will be video-conferenced live to produce a 4-hour program of powerful films - supplemented by visionary speakers, and global musicians. The purpose: to use the power of film to promote better understanding of our common humanity. A global audience will watch through the Internet, television, digital cinemas, and mobile phones. A powerful advisory board has come together to support the project. It includes: JJ Abrams Lawrence Bender Nancy Buirski lan Cumming Ami Dar Cameron Diaz Goldie Hawn Vik Muniz Clare Munn Eboo Patel Alexander Payne Meg Ryan Deborah Scranton Jeff Skoll Philippe Starck Yossi Vardi Kevin Wall Will.i.am If you’re interested learning more and/or helping out, please send an email to Pangea Day executive director Delia Cohen (delia@ted.com). More details are available at the project's beautiful website created for us by Avenue A/Razorfish: pangeaday.org. Now enjoy the film! Very best, Chris Anderson TED Curator P.S. The TED talk in which Jehane unveiled her wish for Pangea Day is here.