Pangea Day
Pangea Day is an international effort to ‘unite the world through film’. On May 10th Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will host events showcasing twenty four movies from around the world. Here is one which I quite liked.
From YouTube: “Here, set against the backdrops of Nairobi city and the beautiful landscape of Uhuru Park (Maasai country), a Kenyan choir sings the Indian national anthem.
The director has chosen the Indian anthem because Kenya is home to a sizeable Hindu population (including Sikhs & Jains also) of approximately 2.5 million, most of them descendants of the East African Railways labourers who were brought over by the British during the late 19th and early 20th centuries when the British colonialists ruled Kenya and the rest of the East African region.”
on Saturday, April 19th, 2008, 12:02 pm in Film › 
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I actually only recently found out about Pangea Day from an email send by the guys who do the TED conference. I didn’t actually understand what it was all about until after the day had past! Is this a new event which will be taking place annually or has it been around before?
As for the video, the director sure did a good job :P.
FYI, Pangea Day has not passed. It’s coming up on May 10.
I’m really looking forward to attending the Pangea day event in London - its taking place in the open air at Somerset House. I work in public engagement and community involvement in the UK and think that film is a great way of helping people to understand each other better and crucially to connect with each other on a basic level. I’m interested to see how well it works as an engagement concept. It should be much more than just watching a film together.