Citytv joins the world in celebrating Pangea Day.

Saturday May 10, Citytv invites you to join millions of people for a unique global media event, Pangea Day: a 4-hour film festival featuring 24 short films chosen from 2500 entries representing 100 nations worldwide.

Broadcast from live events in Los Angeles, Kigali, Cairo, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and London. Pangea Day brings inspiring messages of hope, peace and community from Queen Noor of Jordan, CNN’s Christian Amanpour and community leaders from around the world.
 
During the festival, performers such as activist/performer Bob Geldof, David Stewart (Eurythmics) and Iranian rock band Hypernova bring live music to you from around the world.

Pangea Day is an historic moment in world media history. Join Citytv and the planet Earth in sharing it!

Our world is fractured and divided by cultures, borders, conflict and difference. Pangea Day is meant to reach across what divides us to show what unites us, as a people, a culture and as beings of good will.

Pangea Day is an international multi-media festival, broadcast in seven languages, featuring films, music and inspirational speakers.  

Pangea Day is the result of award-winning documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim’s wish for world peace. Winner of the TED award, which grants the winner one wish, Jehane’s vision is to use the power of film as a way to create empathy, understanding, peace and community.

The outcome of Pangea Day is to inspire a sense of common humanity. We are all one people, sharing a very troubled world that needs to grow together if we as a species are to survive.

The power of visual media to motivate, inspire and educate is a fact of life in the 21st century. Pangea Day is an attempt to harness that power to share a common experience of film that builds community, inspires empathy and creates understanding among millions of people around the world.

The 24 films of Pangea Day’s multi-media broadcast were carefully chosen from over 2500 submissions from filmmakers of over 100 nationalities. These short films are representations from professionals and amateurs alike, each of the films were judged based on their ability to build understanding and to inspire while allowing us to see the world from a different point of view.

The films and filmmakers are as diverse as the myriad cultures of the world they represent. Their stories are the common tales of anyone you meet, or know. Their stories are your stories. Pangea Day is a space to hear the tales the world tells itself.