Pangea Day Comes to sfComplex

Santa Fe Complex will host a screening of Pangea Day, a global event bringing the world together through film, on May 10, beginning at noon. Locations in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of powerful films, live music, and visionary speakers. The entire program will be broadcast – in seven languages – to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones.

If you’re in Albuquerque instead of Santa Fe, head over to Flying Star Downtown where a Sushigig event will be hosting Pangea Day.

The 24 short films to be featured have been selected from an international competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from over one hundred countries. The films were chosen based on their ability to inspire, transform, and allow us see the world through another person’s eyes.

The program will also include a number of exceptional speakers and musical performers. Queen Noor of Jordan, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, musician/activist Bob Geldof, and Iranian rock phenom Hypernova are among those taking part.

Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim is the inspiration behind Pangea Day. In 2006, she won the TED Prize, an annual award granted at the TED Conference. She was granted $100,000, and more important, a wish to change the world. Her wish was to create a day in which the world came together through film. Pangea Day grew out of that wish. Click here to watch Jehane Noujaim’s 2006 acceptance speech.

More information on Pangea Day is available at their website .