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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't help but with this wish to think about when you're a little kid
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.00,0:00:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you -- all your friends ask you if a genie could
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.00,0:00:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,give you one wish in the world, what would it be?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.00,0:00:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I always answered, "Well, I'd want the wish
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.00,0:00:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have the wisdom to know exactly what to wish for."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.00,0:00:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, then you'd be screwed because you'd know what to wish for
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.00,0:00:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you'd used up your wish.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.00,0:00:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now, since we only have one wish -- unlike last year they had three wishes --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.00,0:00:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not going to wish for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.00,0:00:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's get to what I would like, which is world peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.00,0:00:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know what you're thinking.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.00,0:00:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're thinking, the poor girl up there --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.00,0:00:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she thinks she's at a beauty pageant.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.00,0:00:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's not. She's at the TED Prize. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.00,0:00:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I really do think it makes sense,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.00,0:00:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think that the first step to world peace is for people to meet each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.00,0:00:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've met a lot of different people over the years
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.00,0:00:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've filmed some of them --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.00,0:00:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from a dotcom executive in New York that wanted to take over the world
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.00,0:01:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a military press officer in Qatar
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.00,0:01:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would rather not take over the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.00,0:01:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you've seen the film "Control Room" that was sent out,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.00,0:01:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'd understand a little bit why. Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.00,0:01:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.00,0:01:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wow! Some of you watched it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.00,0:01:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's great. That's great.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.00,0:01:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So basically what I'd like to talk about today
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.00,0:01:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a way for people to travel,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.00,0:01:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to meet people in a different way than --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.00,0:01:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you can't travel all over the world at the same time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.00,0:01:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a long time ago -- well, about 40 years ago --
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.00,0:01:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my mom had an exchange student.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.00,0:01:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm going to show you slides of the exchange student.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.00,0:01:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Donna.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.00,0:01:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Donna at the Statue of Liberty.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.00,0:01:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is my mother and aunt teaching Donna how to ride a bike.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.00,0:01:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Donna eating ice cream.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.00,0:01:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is Donna teaching my aunt how to do a Filipino dance.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.00,0:02:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I really think as the world is getting smaller,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.00,0:02:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it becomes more and more important that we learn each other's dance moves,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.00,0:02:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we meet each other, we get to know each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.00,0:02:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are able to figure out a way to cross borders,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.00,0:02:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to understand each other, to understand people's hopes and dreams,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.00,0:02:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what makes them laugh and cry.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.00,0:02:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know that we can't all do exchange programs,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.00,0:02:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I can't force everybody to travel.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.00,0:02:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've already talked about that to Chris and Amy,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.00,0:02:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they said that there's a problem with this.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.00,0:02:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't force people of free will, and I totally support that. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.00,0:02:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we're not forcing people to travel.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.00,0:02:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I'd like to talk about another way to travel
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.00,0:02:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that doesn't require a ship or an airplane,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.00,0:02:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just requires a movie camera, a projector and a screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.00,0:02:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what I'm going to talk to you about today.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.00,0:02:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was asked that I speak a little bit
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.00,0:02:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about where I personally come from,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.00,0:02:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Cameron, I don't know how you managed to get out of that one,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.00,0:02:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I think that building bridges is important to me
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.00,0:02:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of where I come from.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.00,0:03:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm the daughter of an American mother
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.00,0:03:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and an Egyptian-Lebanese-Syrian father.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.00,0:03:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'm the living product of two cultures coming together.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.00,0:03:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No pun intended.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.00,0:03:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've also been called --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.00,0:03:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as an Egyptian-Lebanese-Syrian American with a Persian name --
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.00,0:03:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the "Middle East Peace Crisis."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.00,0:03:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So maybe me starting to take pictures was some kind of way
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.00,0:03:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to bring both sides of my family together,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.00,0:03:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a way to take the worlds with me, a way to tell stories visually.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.00,0:03:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It all kind of started that way,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.00,0:03:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I think that I really realized the power of the image
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.00,0:03:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I first went to the garbage-collecting village in Egypt,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.00,0:03:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was about 16. My mother took me there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.00,0:03:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's somebody that believes strongly in community service
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.00,0:03:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and decided that this was something that I needed to do
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.00,0:03:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so I went there and I met some amazing women there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.00,0:03:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a center there
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.00,0:03:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they were teaching people how to read and write
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.00,0:04:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and get vaccinations against the many diseases
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.00,0:04:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can get from sorting through garbage.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.00,0:04:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I began to start teaching there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.00,0:04:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I taught English, and I met some incredible women there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.00,0:04:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I met people that live seven people to a room,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.00,0:04:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,barely can afford their evening meal,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.00,0:04:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet live with this strength of spirit and sense of humor
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.00,0:04:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just incredible qualities.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.00,0:04:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got drawn into this community and I began to take pictures there.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.00,0:04:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took pictures of weddings and older family members,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.00,0:04:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things that they wanted memories of.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.00,0:04:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About two years after I started taking these pictures,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.00,0:04:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the UN Conference on Population and Development
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.00,0:04:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asked me to show them at the conference.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.00,0:04:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was 18; I was very excited.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.00,0:04:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was my first exhibit of photographs and they were all put up there,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.00,0:05:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and after about two days, they all came down except for three.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.00,0:05:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People were very upset, very angry
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.00,0:05:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I was showing these dirty sides of Cairo,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.00,0:05:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and why didn't I cut the dead donkey out of the frame?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.00,0:05:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as I sat there, I got very depressed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.00,0:05:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I looked at this big empty wall with
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.00,0:05:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three lonely photographs that were, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.00,0:05:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very pretty photographs and I was like, I failed at this.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.00,0:05:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I was looking at this intense emotion and intense feeling
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.00,0:05:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had come out of people just seeing these photographs.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.00,0:05:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, here I was, this 18-year-old pipsqueak that nobody listened to,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.00,0:05:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all of a sudden I put these photographs on the wall
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.00,0:05:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there were arguments, and they had to be taken down.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.00,0:05:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I just saw the power of the image.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.00,0:05:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was incredible.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.00,0:05:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think the most important reaction that I saw there
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.00,0:05:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was actually people that would never have gone to the garbage village themselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.00,0:05:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would never have seen that the human spirit could thrive
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.00,0:05:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in such difficult circumstances.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.00,0:05:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think it was at that point that I decided
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.00,0:06:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I wanted to use photography and film
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.00,0:06:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to somehow bridge gaps, to bridge cultures, bring people together, cross borders.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.00,0:06:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so that's what really kind of started me off.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.00,0:06:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did a stint at MTV, made a film called "Startup.com,"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.00,0:06:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've done a couple of music films --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.00,0:06:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in 2003, when the war in Iraq was about to start,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.00,0:06:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was a very surreal feeling for me
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.00,0:06:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because before the war started, there was kind of this media war that was going on.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.00,0:06:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was watching television in New York
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.00,0:06:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there seemed to be just one point of view
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.00,0:06:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was coming across, and
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.00,0:06:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the coverage went from the U.S. State Department to embedded troops
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.00,0:06:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what was coming across on the news
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.00,0:06:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was that there was going to be this clean war and precision bombings,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.00,0:07:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Iraqis would be greeting the Americans as liberators
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.00,0:07:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and throwing flowers at their feet in the streets of Baghdad.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.00,0:07:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I knew that there was a completely other story
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.00,0:07:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was taking place in the Middle East where my parents were.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.00,0:07:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew that there was a completely other story being told,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.00,0:07:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was thinking, how are people supposed to communicate
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.00,0:07:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with each other when they're getting completely different messages
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.00,0:07:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nobody knows what the other's being told?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.00,0:07:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How are people supposed to have any kind of common understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.00,0:07:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or know how to move together into the future?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.00,0:07:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I knew that I had to go there.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.00,0:07:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just wanted to be in the center.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.00,0:07:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had no plan. I had no funding.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.00,0:07:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't even have a camera at the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.00,0:07:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had somebody bring it there
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.00,0:07:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I wanted to get access to Al Jazeera,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.00,0:07:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,George Bush's favorite channel
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.00,0:07:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a place which I was very curious about because
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.00,0:07:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's disliked by many governments across the Arab world
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.00,0:07:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also called the mouthpiece of Osama Bin Laden
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.00,0:07:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by some people in the U.S. government.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.00,0:07:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was thinking, you know, this station that's hated
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.00,0:08:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by so many people has to be doing something right.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.00,0:08:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got to go see what this is all about.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.00,0:08:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I also wanted to go see Central Command,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.00,0:08:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was 10 minutes away, and that way
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.00,0:08:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could get access to how this news was being created
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.00,0:08:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the Arab side reaching the Arab world,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.00,0:08:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and on the U.S. and Western side reaching the U.S.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.00,0:08:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I went there and sat there,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.00,0:08:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and met these people that were in the center of it
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.00,0:08:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sat with these characters,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.00,0:08:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I met some surprising, very complex people.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.00,0:08:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'd like to share with you a little bit of that experience
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.00,0:08:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of when you sit with somebody and you film them, and you listen to them,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.00,0:08:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you allow them more than a five-second sound bite,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.00,0:08:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the amazing complexity of people emerge.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.00,0:08:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sameer Khader: Business as usual.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.00,0:08:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Iraq, and then Iraq, and then Iraq.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.00,0:09:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But between us, if I'm offered a job with Fox, I'll take it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.00,0:09:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To change the Arab nightmare into the American dream.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.00,0:09:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still have that dream.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.00,0:09:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe I will never be able to do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.00,0:09:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I have plans for my children.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.00,0:09:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they finish their high school I will send them to America to study there.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.00,0:09:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will pay for their study.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.00,0:09:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they will stay there.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.00,0:09:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Josh Rushing: The night they showed the POWs and the dead soldiers --
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.00,0:09:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Al Jazeera showed them --
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.00,0:09:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was powerful because America doesn't show those kinds of images.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.00,0:09:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the news in America won't show really gory images
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.00,0:09:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this showed American soldiers in uniform strewn about a floor,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.00,0:10:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a cold tile floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.00,0:10:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was revolting.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.00,0:10:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was absolutely revolting.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.00,0:10:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It made me sick to my stomach.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.00,0:10:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then what hit me was, the night before,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.00,0:10:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there had been some kind of bombing in Basra,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.00,0:10:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Al Jazeera had shown images of the people.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.00,0:10:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they were equally if not more horrifying -- the images were.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.00,0:10:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I remember having seen it in the Al Jazeera office
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.00,0:10:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thought to myself, "Wow, that's gross.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.00,0:10:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's bad."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.00,0:10:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then going away, and probably eating dinner or something.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.00,0:10:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it didn't affect me as much.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.00,0:10:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So -- the impact it had on me, me realizing that
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.00,0:10:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just saw people on the other side,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.00,0:10:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those people in the Al Jazeera office
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.00,0:10:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,must have felt the way I was feeling that night.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.00,0:10:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it upset me on a profound level
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.00,0:10:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I wasn't bothered as much the night before.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.00,0:10:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It makes me hate war.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.00,0:10:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it doesn't make me believe that we're in world that can live without war yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.00,0:11:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jehane Noujaim: I was overwhelmed by the response of the film,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.00,0:11:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for we didn't know whether it would be able to get out there.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.00,0:11:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had no funding for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.00,0:11:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were incredibly lucky that it got picked up,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.00,0:11:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when we showed the film in both the United States and the Arab world
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.00,0:11:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we had such incredible reactions.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.00,0:11:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was amazing to see how people were moved by this film.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.00,0:11:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Arab world -- and it's not really by the film;
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.00,0:11:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's by the characters.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.00,0:11:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, Josh Rushing was this incredibly complex person
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.00,0:11:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was thinking about things.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.00,0:11:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I showed the film in the Middle East,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.00,0:11:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people wanted to meet Josh.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.00,0:11:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He kind of redefined us as an American population.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.00,0:11:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People started to, you know, ask me, where is this guy now?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.00,0:11:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Al Jazeera offered him a job.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.00,0:11:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Sameer, on the other hand,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.00,0:11:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was also quite an interesting character for the Arab world to see,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.00,0:11:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it brought out the complexities of this love/hate relationship
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.00,0:12:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the Arab world has with the West.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.00,0:12:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the United States, I was blown away by the motivations,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.00,0:12:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the positive motivations of the American people
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.00,0:12:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they'd see this film.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.00,0:12:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, we're criticized abroad for
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.00,0:12:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,believing we're the saviors of the world in some way,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.00,0:12:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the flip side of it is that actually,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.00,0:12:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when people do see what is happening abroad
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.00,0:12:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people's reactions to some of our policy abroad,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.00,0:12:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we feel this power that we need to --
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.00,0:12:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we feel like we have to get the power to change things.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.00,0:12:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I saw this with audiences.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.00,0:12:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This woman came up to me after the screening and said, "You know,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.00,0:12:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know this is crazy. I saw the bombs being loaded on the planes;
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.00,0:12:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw the military going out to war.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.00,0:12:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you don't understand people's anger towards us
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.00,0:12:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until you see the people in the hospitals and the victims of the war,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.00,0:12:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how do we get out of this bubble?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.00,0:12:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do we understand what the other person is thinking?"
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.00,0:12:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.00,0:13:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I know that it starts -- I know the power of it --
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.00,0:13:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.00,0:13:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I'm not a philosopher,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.00,0:13:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I feel like I shouldn't go into great depth on this but
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.00,0:13:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let film speak for itself and take you to this other world.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.00,0:13:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I believe that film has the ability to take you across borders.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.00,0:13:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd like you to just sit back and experience for a couple of minutes
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.00,0:13:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being taken into another world.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.00,0:13:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these couple clips take you inside
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.00,0:13:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of two of the most difficult conflicts that we are faced with today.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.00,0:13:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man: As long as there is injustice, someone must make a sacrifice!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.00,0:13:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woman: That's no sacrifice, that's revenge!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.00,0:13:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you kill, there's no difference between victim and occupier.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.00,0:13:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man: If we had airplanes, we wouldn't need martyrs, that's the difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.00,0:14:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woman: The difference is that the Israeli military is still stronger.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.00,0:14:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man: Then let us be equal in death.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.00,0:14:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We still have Paradise.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.00,0:14:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woman: There is no Paradise! It only exists in your head!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.00,0:14:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man: God forbid!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.00,0:14:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May God forgive you.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.00,0:14:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you were not Abu Azzam's daughter ...
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.00,0:14:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, I'd rather have Paradise in my head than live in this hell!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.00,0:14:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this life, we're dead anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.00,0:14:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One only chooses bitterness when the alternative is even bitterer.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.00,0:14:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woman: And what about us? The ones who remain?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.00,0:14:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will we win that way?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.00,0:14:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't you see what you're doing is destroying us?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.00,0:14:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that you give Israel an alibi to carry on?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.00,0:14:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man: So with no alibi, Israel will stop?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.00,0:14:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woman: Perhaps. We have to turn it into a moral war.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.00,0:14:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man: How, if Israel has no morals?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.00,0:15:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Woman: Be careful!
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.00,0:15:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Zvika: My wife Ayelet called me and said,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.00,0:15:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There was a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.00,0:15:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ayelet: What do you know about the casualties?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.00,0:15:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're looking for three girls.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.00,0:15:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Zvika: We have no information.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.00,0:15:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ayelet: One is wounded here, but we haven't heard from the other three.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.00,0:15:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Zvika: I said, "OK, that's Bat-Chen, that's my daughter.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.00,0:15:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you sure she is dead?"
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.00,0:15:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.00,0:15:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,George: On that day, at around 6:30
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.00,0:15:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was driving with my wife and daughters to the supermarket.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.00,0:16:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we got to here,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.00,0:16:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we saw three Israeli military jeeps parked on the side of the road.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.00,0:16:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we passed by the first jeep,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.00,0:16:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they opened fire on us.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:17.00,0:16:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my 12-year-old daughter Christine
Dialogue: 0,0:16:21.00,0:16:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was killed in the shooting.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.00,0:16:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am the headmaster for all parts.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.00,0:16:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,George: But there is a teacher that is in charge?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.00,0:16:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tzvika: Yes, I have assistants.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.00,0:16:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I deal with children all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:50.00,0:16:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,George: At first, I thought it was a strange idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:54.00,0:16:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But after thinking logically about it,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:58.00,0:17:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't find any reason why not to meet them
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.00,0:17:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and let them know of our suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.00,0:17:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,George: There were many things that touched me.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.00,0:17:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see that there are Palestinians who suffered a lot, who lost children,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:19.00,0:17:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and still believe in the peace process and in reconciliation.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:22.00,0:17:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we who lost what is most precious can talk to each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.00,0:17:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and look forward to a better future,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.00,0:17:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then everyone else must do so, too.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.00,0:17:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man: Song is something that we communicated with people
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.00,0:17:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who otherwise would not have understood where we're coming from.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.00,0:17:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could give them a long political speech
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.00,0:17:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would still not understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.00,0:18:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I tell you, when you finish that song,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.00,0:18:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people will be like, "Damn, I know where you niggaz are coming from.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:03.00,0:18:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know where you guys are coming from.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.00,0:18:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Death unto apartheid!"
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.00,0:18:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator: It's about the liberation struggle.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.00,0:18:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about those children who took to the streets,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:14.00,0:18:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fighting, screaming, "Free Nelson Mandela!"
Dialogue: 0,0:18:20.00,0:18:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about those unions who put down their tools
Dialogue: 0,0:18:24.00,0:18:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and demanded freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.00,0:18:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes. Yes!
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.00,0:18:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Freedom!
Dialogue: 0,0:18:41.00,0:18:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jehane Noujaim: I think everybody's had that feeling of sitting in a theater,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:44.00,0:18:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a dark room, with other strangers, watching a very powerful film,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.00,0:18:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they felt that feeling of transformation.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.00,0:18:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.00,0:18:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I'd like to talk about is how can we use that feeling
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.00,0:19:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to actually create a movement through film?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.00,0:19:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been listening to the talks
Dialogue: 0,0:19:05.00,0:19:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in some of the conference, and Robert Wright said yesterday
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.00,0:19:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if we have an appreciation for another person's humanity,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:13.00,0:19:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then they will have an appreciation for ours.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:15.00,0:19:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what this is about.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.00,0:19:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about connecting people through film,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.00,0:19:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting these independent voices out there.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.00,0:19:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now Josh Rushing actually ended up leaving the military
Dialogue: 0,0:19:28.00,0:19:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and taking a job with Al Jazeera,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:30.00,0:19:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so his feeling is that he's on Al Jazeera International because
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.00,0:19:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he feels like he can actually use media
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.00,0:19:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to bridge the gap between East and West.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.00,0:19:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's an amazing thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.00,0:19:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I've been trying to think about ways
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.00,0:19:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give power to these independent voices,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.00,0:19:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give power to the filmmakers,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:51.00,0:19:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give power to people who are trying to use film for change.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:55.00,0:19:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there are incredible organizations
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.00,0:19:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are out there doing this already.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:59.00,0:20:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's Witness, that you heard from earlier.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:02.00,0:20:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's Just Vision, that are working with Palestinians and Israelis
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.00,0:20:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are working together for peace, and documenting that process
Dialogue: 0,0:20:09.00,0:20:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and getting interviews out there and using this film
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.00,0:20:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to take to Congress to show that it's a powerful tool
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.00,0:20:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to show that this is a woman who's had her daughter killed in an attack,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.00,0:20:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she believes that there are peaceful ways to solve this.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.00,0:20:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's Working Films and there's Current TV,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.00,0:20:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is an incredible platform for people around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:20:29.00,0:20:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be able to put their -- yes, it's amazing.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:33.00,0:20:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I watched it and I'm just -- I'm blown away by it
Dialogue: 0,0:20:36.00,0:20:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and its potential to bring voices from around the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.00,0:20:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,independent voices from around the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:42.00,0:20:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and create a truly democratic, global television.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.00,0:20:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what can we do to create a platform for these organizations,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:49.00,0:20:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to create some momentum,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.00,0:20:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get everybody in the world involved in this movement?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.00,0:21:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd like for us to imagine for a second -- imagine a day
Dialogue: 0,0:21:04.00,0:21:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you have everyone coming together from around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.00,0:21:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have towns and villages and theaters all from around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.00,0:21:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting together, and sitting in the dark,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.00,0:21:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sharing a communal experience of watching a film,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:25.00,0:21:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a couple of films, together.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:29.00,0:21:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watching a film which maybe highlights
Dialogue: 0,0:21:31.00,0:21:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a character that is fighting to live, or just
Dialogue: 0,0:21:35.00,0:21:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a character that defies stereotypes,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:37.00,0:21:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,makes a joke, sings a song.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:40.00,0:21:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Comedies, documentaries, shorts.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:42.00,0:21:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This amazing power can be used to change people
Dialogue: 0,0:21:45.00,0:21:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to bond people together, to cross borders
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.00,0:21:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have people feel like they're having a communal experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:51.00,0:21:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if you imagine this day when all around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:21:54.00,0:21:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have theaters from around the world and places where we project films.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:59.00,0:22:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you imagine from --
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.00,0:22:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,projecting from Times Square to Tahir Square in Cairo,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.00,0:22:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the same film in Ramallah, the same film in Jerusalem.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:10.00,0:22:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, we've been talking to a friend of mine
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.00,0:22:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about using the side of the Great Pyramid
Dialogue: 0,0:22:15.00,0:22:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Great Wall of China.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:18.00,0:22:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's endless what you can imagine,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:23.00,0:22:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of where you can project films
Dialogue: 0,0:22:25.00,0:22:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and where you can have this communal experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.00,0:22:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I believe that this one day, if we can create it,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.00,0:22:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this one day can create momentum for all of these independent voices.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.00,0:22:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There
Dialogue: 0,0:22:37.00,0:22:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't an organization which is connecting
Dialogue: 0,0:22:39.00,0:22:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the independent voices of the world to get out there,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:42.00,0:22:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet I'm hearing throughout this conference
Dialogue: 0,0:22:44.00,0:22:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the biggest danger in our future is [lack of] understanding the other
Dialogue: 0,0:22:48.00,0:22:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and having mutual respect for the other and crossing borders.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:52.00,0:22:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if film can do that,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:54.00,0:22:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if we can get all of these different locations in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:22:57.00,0:23:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to watch these films together, this could be an incredible day.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:02.00,0:23:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we've already made a partnership actually, set up through
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.00,0:23:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody from the TED community,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:09.00,0:23:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Camen, introduced me to
Dialogue: 0,0:23:11.00,0:23:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steven Apkon, from the Jacob Burns Film Center.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.00,0:23:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we started calling up everybody.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.00,0:23:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in the last week, there have been so many people that have responded to us
Dialogue: 0,0:23:22.00,0:23:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from as close as Palo Alto to Mongolia and to India.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:27.00,0:23:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are people that want to be a part of this global day of film,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:31.00,0:23:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be able to provide a platform for independent voices
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.00,0:23:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and independent films to get out there.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:39.00,0:23:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, we've thought about a name for this day
Dialogue: 0,0:23:43.00,0:23:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'd like to share this with you.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:45.00,0:23:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, the most amazing part of this whole process
Dialogue: 0,0:23:47.00,0:23:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been sharing ideas and wishes,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:50.00,0:23:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so I invite you to give brainstorms onto
Dialogue: 0,0:23:54.00,0:23:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how does this day echo into the future?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:57.00,0:24:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do we use technology to make this day echo into the future,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:02.00,0:24:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that we can build community
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.00,0:24:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have these communities working together, through the Internet?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.00,0:24:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a time, many, many years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:11.00,0:24:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when all of the continents were stuck together.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:15.00,0:24:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we called that landmass Pangea.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.00,0:24:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what we'd like to call this day of film is Pangea Cinema Day.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:23.00,0:24:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you just imagine
Dialogue: 0,0:24:25.00,0:24:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that all of these people in these towns would be watching,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:28.00,0:24:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then I think that we can actually really make a movement
Dialogue: 0,0:24:32.00,0:24:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,towards people understanding each other better.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.00,0:24:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that it's very intangible, touching people's hearts and souls,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.00,0:24:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the only way that I know how to do it,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:41.00,0:24:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the only way that I know how to reach out
Dialogue: 0,0:24:43.00,0:24:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to somebody's heart and soul all across the world is by showing them a film.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:48.00,0:24:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I know that there are independent filmmakers and films out there
Dialogue: 0,0:24:51.00,0:24:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can really make this happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:53.00,0:24:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's my wish.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.00,0:25:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I guess I'm supposed to give you my one-sentence wish,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:00.00,0:25:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we're way out of time.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:03.00,0:25:05.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chris Anderson: That is an incredible wish.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:05.00,0:25:08.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pangea Cinema -- the day the world comes together.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:08.00,0:25:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JN: It's more tangible than world peace, and it's certainly more immediate.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.00,0:25:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it would be the day that the world comes together through film,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:17.00,0:25:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the power of film.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.00,0:25:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CA: Ladies and gentlemen, Jehane Noujaim.