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I can't help but this wish:

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to think about when you're a little kid,[br]and all your friends ask you,

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"If a genie could give you[br]one wish in the world,

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what would it be?"

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And I always answered,

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"Well, I'd want the wish

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to have the wisdom to know[br]exactly what to wish for."

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Well, then you'd be screwed,

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because you'd know what to wish for,[br]and you'd use up your wish,

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and now, since we only have one wish --[br]unlike last year they had three wishes --

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I'm not going to wish for that.

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So let's get to what I would like,[br]which is world peace.

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And I know what you're thinking:

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You're thinking, "The poor girl up there,

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she thinks she's at a beauty pageant.

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She's not. She's at the TED Prize."

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(Laughter)

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But I really do think it makes sense.

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And I think that[br]the first step to world peace

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is for people to meet each other.

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I've met a lot of different[br]people over the years,

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and I've filmed some of them,

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from a dotcom executive in New York[br]who wanted to take over the world,

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to a military press officer in Qatar,

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who would rather not take over the world.

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If you've seen the film[br]"Control Room" that was sent out,

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you'd understand a little bit why.

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(Applause)

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Thank you.

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Wow! Some of you watched it.[br]That's great. That's great.

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So basically what I'd like[br]to talk about today

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is a way for people to travel,

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to meet people in a different way than --

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because you can't travel[br]all over the world at the same time.

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And a long time ago --[br]well, about 40 years ago --

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my mom had an exchange student.

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And I'm going to show you[br]slides of the exchange student.

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This is Donna.

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This is Donna at the Statue of Liberty.

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This is my mother and aunt[br]teaching Donna how to ride a bike.

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This is Donna eating ice cream.

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And this is Donna teaching my aunt[br]how to do a Filipino dance.

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I really think as the world[br]is getting smaller,

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it becomes more and more important

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that we learn each other's dance moves,

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that we meet each other,[br]we get to know each other,

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we are able to figure out[br]a way to cross borders,

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to understand each other, to understand[br]people's hopes and dreams,

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what makes them laugh and cry.

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And I know that we can't[br]all do exchange programs,

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and I can't force everybody to travel;

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I've already talked about that[br]to Chris and Amy,

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and they said that[br]there's a problem with this:

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You can't force people, free will.

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And I totally support that,[br]so we're not forcing people to travel.

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But I'd like to talk[br]about another way to travel

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that doesn't require[br]a ship or an airplane,

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and just requires a movie camera,[br]a projector and a screen.

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And that's what I'm going[br]to talk to you about today.

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I was asked that I speak a little bit[br]about where I personally come from,

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and Cameron, I don't know how[br]you managed to get out of that one,

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but I think that building bridges[br]is important to me

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because of where I come from.

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I'm the daughter of an American mother

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and an Egyptian-Lebanese-Syrian father.

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So I'm the living product[br]of two cultures coming together.

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No pun intended.

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(Laughter)

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And I've also been called,

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as an Egyptian-Lebanese-Syrian American[br]with a Persian name,

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the "Middle East Peace Crisis."

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So maybe me starting to take[br]pictures was some kind of way

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to bring both sides[br]of my family together --

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a way to take the worlds with me,[br]a way to tell stories visually.

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It all kind of started that way,

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but I think that I really realized[br]the power of the image

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when I first went[br]to the garbage-collecting village

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in Egypt, when I was about 16.

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My mother took me there.

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She's somebody who believes strongly[br]in community service,

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and decided that this was something[br]that I needed to do.

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And so I went there and I met[br]some amazing women there.

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There was a center there,

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where they were teaching[br]people how to read and write,

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and get vaccinations[br]against the many diseases

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you can get from sorting through garbage.

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And I began teaching there.

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I taught English, and I met[br]some incredible women there.

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I met people that live[br]seven people to a room,

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barely can afford their evening meal,

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yet lived with this strength[br]of spirit and sense of humor

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and just incredible qualities.

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I got drawn into this community[br]and I began to take pictures there.

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I took pictures of weddings[br]and older family members --

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things that they wanted memories of.

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About two years after I started[br]taking these pictures,

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the UN Conference[br]on Population and Development

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asked me to show them at the conference.

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So I was 18; I was very excited.

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It was my first exhibit of photographs[br]and they were all put up there,

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and after about two days,[br]they all came down except for three.

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People were very upset,

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very angry that I was showing[br]these dirty sides of Cairo,

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and why didn't I cut[br]the dead donkey out of the frame?

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And as I sat there, I got very depressed.

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I looked at this big empty wall[br]with three lonely photographs

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that were, you know,[br]very pretty photographs

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and I was like, "I failed at this."

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But I was looking at this intense[br]emotion and intense feeling

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that had come out of people[br]just seeing these photographs.

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Here I was, this 18-year-old pipsqueak[br]that nobody listened to,

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and all of a sudden,[br]I put these photographs on the wall,

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and there were arguments,[br]and they had to be taken down.

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And I saw the power of the image,[br]and it was incredible.

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And I think the most important reaction[br]that I saw there was actually from people

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that would never have gone[br]to the garbage village themselves,

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that would never have seen[br]that the human spirit could thrive

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in such difficult circumstances.

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And I think it was at that point

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that I decided I wanted to use[br]photography and film

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to somehow bridge gaps,[br]to bridge cultures,

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bring people together, cross borders.

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And so that's what really[br]kind of started me off.

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Did a stint at MTV, made a film[br]called "Startup.com,"

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and I've done a couple of music films.

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But in 2003, when the war[br]in Iraq was about to start,

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it was a very surreal feeling for me,

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because before the war started,

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there was kind of this media war[br]that was going on.

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And I was watching television in New York,

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and there seemed to be just one[br]point of view that was coming across,

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and the coverage went[br]from the US State Department

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to embedded troops.

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And what was coming across on the news

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was that there was going to be this[br]clean war and precision bombings,

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and the Iraqis would be greeting[br]the Americans as liberators,

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and throwing flowers at their feet[br]in the streets of Baghdad.

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And I knew that there[br]was a completely other story

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that was taking place in the Middle East,[br]where my parents were.

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I knew that there was[br]a completely other story being told,

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and I was thinking, "How are people[br]supposed to communicate with each other

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when they're getting completely[br]different messages,

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and nobody knows[br]what the other's being told?

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How are people supposed to have[br]any kind of common understanding

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or know how to move together[br]into the future?

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So I knew that I had to go there.

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I just wanted to be in the center.

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I had no plan. I had no funding.

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I didn't even have a camera at the time --[br]I had somebody bring it there,

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because I wanted[br]to get access to Al Jazeera,

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George Bush's favorite channel,

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and a place which I was very curious[br]about because it's disliked

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by many governments across the Arab world,

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and also called the mouthpiece[br]of Osama Bin Laden

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by some people in the US government.

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So I was thinking, this station[br]that's hated by so many people

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has to be doing something right.

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I've got to go see what this is all about.

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And I also wanted to go see[br]Central Command,

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which was 10 minutes away.

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And that way, I could get access[br]to how this news was being created --

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on the Arab side, reaching the Arab world,

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and on the US and Western side,[br]reaching the US.

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And when I went there and sat there,

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and met these people[br]that were in the center of it,

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and sat with these characters,

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I met some surprising,[br]very complex people.

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And I'd like to share with you[br]a little bit of that experience

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of when you sit with somebody

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and you film them, and you listen to them,

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and you allow them more[br]than a five-second sound bite.

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The amazing complexity of people emerges.

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Samir Khader: Business as usual.

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Iraq, and then Iraq, and then Iraq.

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But between us, if I'm offered[br]a job with Fox, I'll take it.

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To change the Arab nightmare[br]into the American dream.

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I still have that dream.

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Maybe I will never be able to do it,

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but I have plans for my children.

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When they finish high school,

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I will send them to America[br]to study there.

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I will pay for their study.

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And they will stay there.

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Josh Rushing: The night they showed[br]the POWs and the dead soldiers --

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Al Jazeera showed them --

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it was powerful, because America[br]doesn't show those kinds of images.

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Most of the news in America[br]won't show really gory images

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and this showed American soldiers[br]in uniform, strewn about a floor,

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a cold tile floor.

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And it was revolting.

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It was absolutely revolting.

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It made me sick at my stomach.

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And then what hit me was,[br]the night before,

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there had been some kind[br]of bombing in Basra,

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and Al Jazeera had shown[br]images of the people.

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And they were equally, if not more,[br]horrifying -- the images were.

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And I remember having seen it[br]in the Al Jazeera office,

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and thought to myself, "Wow, that's gross.

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That's bad."

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And then going away, and probably[br]eating dinner or something.

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And it didn't affect me as much.

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So, the impact that had on me --

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me realizing that I just saw[br]people on the other side,

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and those people in the Al Jazeera office

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must have felt the way[br]I was feeling that night,

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and it upset me on a profound level

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that I wasn't as bothered[br]as much the night before.

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It makes me hate war.

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But it doesn't make me believe[br]that we're in a world

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that can live without war yet.

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Jehane Noujaim: I was overwhelmed[br]by the response of the film.

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We didn't know whether[br]it would be able to get out there.

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We had no funding for it.

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We were incredibly lucky[br]that it got picked up.

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And when we showed the film

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in both the United States[br]and the Arab world,

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we had such incredible reactions.

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It was amazing to see how people[br]were moved by this film.

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In the Arab world --

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and it's not really by the film,[br]it's by the characters --

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I mean, Josh Rushing was[br]this incredibly complex person

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who was thinking about things.

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And when I showed the film[br]in the Middle East,

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people wanted to meet Josh.

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He kind of redefined us[br]as an American population.

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People started to ask me,[br]"Where is this guy now?"

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Al Jazeera offered him a job.

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(Laughter)

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And Samir, on the other hand,

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was also quite an interesting character[br]for the Arab world to see,

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because it brought out the complexities[br]of this love-hate relationship

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that the Arab world has with the West.

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In the United States, I was blown away[br]by the motivations,

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the positive motivations[br]of the American people

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when they'd see this film.

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You know, we're criticized abroad

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for believing we're the saviors[br]of the world in some way,

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but the flip side of it is that, actually,

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when people do see[br]what is happening abroad

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and people's reactions[br]to some of our policy abroad,

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we feel this power, that we need to --

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we feel like we have to get[br]the power to change things.

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And I saw this with audiences.

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This woman came up to me[br]after the screening and said,

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"You know, I know this is crazy.

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I saw the bombs being loaded[br]on the planes,

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I saw the military going out to war,

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but you don't understand[br]people's anger towards us

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until you see the people in the hospitals[br]and the victims of the war,

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and how do we get out of this bubble?

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How do we understand what[br]the other person is thinking?"

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Now, I don't know whether[br]a film can change the world.

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But I know the power of it,

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I know that it starts people thinking[br]about how to change the world.

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Now, I'm not a philosopher,

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so I feel like I shouldn't[br]go into great depth on this,

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but let film speak for itself[br]and take you to this other world.

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Because I believe that film has[br]the ability to take you across borders,

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I'd like you to just sit back[br]and experience for a couple of minutes

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being taken into another world.

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And these couple clips take you inside[br]of two of the most difficult conflicts

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that we're faced with today.

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[The last 48 hours of two[br]Palestinian suicide bombers.]

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[Paradise Now]

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[Man: As long as there is injustice,[br]someone must make a sacrifice!]

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[Woman: That's no[br]sacrifice, that's revenge!]

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[If you kill, there's no difference[br]between victim and occupier.]

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[Man: If we had airplanes, we wouldn't[br]need martyrs, that's the difference.]

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[Woman: The difference is that the Israeli[br]military is still stronger.]

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[Man: Then let us be equal in death.]

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[We still have Paradise.]

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[Woman: There is no Paradise![br]It only exists in your head!]

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[Man: God forbid!]

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[May God forgive you.]

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[If you were not Abu Azzam's daughter ...]

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[Anyway, I'd rather have Paradise[br]in my head than live in this hell!]

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[In this life, we're dead anyway.]

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[One only chooses bitterness[br]when the alternative is even bitterer.]

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[Woman: And what about us?[br]The ones who remain?]

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[Will we win that way?]

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[Don't you see what you're[br]doing is destroying us?]

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[And that you give Israel[br]an alibi to carry on?]

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[Man: So with no alibi, Israel will stop?]

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[Woman: Perhaps. We have[br]to turn it into a moral war.]

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[Man: How, if Israel has no morals?]

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[Woman: Be careful!]

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[And the real people building[br]peace through non-violence]

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[Encounter Point]

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Video: (Ambulance siren)[br][Tel Aviv, Israel 1996]

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[Tzvika: My wife Ayelet[br]called me and said, ]

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["There was a suicide[br]bombing in Tel Aviv."]

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[Ayelet: What do you know[br]about the casualties?]

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[Tzvika off-screen:[br]We're looking for three girls.]

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[We have no information.]

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[Ayelet: One is wounded here, but we[br]haven't heard from the other three.]

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[Tzvika: I said, "OK,[br]that's Bat-Chen, that's my daughter.]

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[Are you sure she is dead?"]

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[They said yes.]

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Video: (Police siren[br]and shouting over megaphone)

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[Bethlehem, Occupied[br]Palestinian Territories, 2003]

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[George: On that day, at around 6:30]

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[I was driving with my wife[br]and daughters to the supermarket.]

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[When we got to here ...]

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[we saw three Israeli military jeeps[br]parked on the side of the road.]

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[When we passed by the first jeep ...]

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[they opened fire on us.]

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[And my 12-year-old daughter Christine]

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[was killed in the shooting.]

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[Bereaved Families Forum, Jerusalem]

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[Tzvika: I'm the headmaster[br]for all parts.]

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[George: But there is a teacher[br]that is in charge?]

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[Tzvika: Yes, I have assistants.]

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[I deal with children all the time.]

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[One year after their daughters' deaths[br]both Tzvika and George join the forum]

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[George: At first, I thought[br]it was a strange idea.]

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[But after thinking logically about it, ]

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[I didn't find any reason[br]why not to meet them]

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[and let them know of our suffering.]

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[Tzvika: There were[br]many things that touched me.]

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[We see that there are Palestinians[br]who suffered a lot, who lost children,]

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[and still believe in the peace[br]process and in reconciliation.]

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[If we who lost what is most precious[br]can talk to each other,]

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[and look forward to a better future,]

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[then everyone else must do so, too.]

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[From South Africa:[br]A Revolution Through Music]

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[Amandla]

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(Music)

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(Video) Man: Song is something[br]that we communicated with people

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who otherwise would not have[br]understood where we're coming from.

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You could give them[br]a long political speech,

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they would still not understand.

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But I tell you, when you finish that song,

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people will be like, "Damn, I know[br]where you niggas are coming from.

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I know where you guys are coming from.

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Death unto apartheid!"

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Narrator: It's about[br]the liberation struggle.

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It's about those children[br]who took to the streets --

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fighting, screaming,[br]"Free Nelson Mandela!"

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It's about those unions[br]who put down their tools

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and demanded freedom.

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Yes. Yes!

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(Music and singing)

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(Singing) Freedom!

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(Applause)

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Jehane Noujaim: I think everybody's[br]had that feeling of sitting in a theater,

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in a dark room, with other strangers,[br]watching a very powerful film,

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and they felt that feeling[br]of transformation.

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And what I'd like to talk about is

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how can we use that feeling

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to actually create[br]a movement through film?

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I've been listening to the talks[br]in the conference,

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and Robert Wright said yesterday

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that if we have an appreciation[br]for another person's humanity,

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then they will have[br]an appreciation for ours.

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And that's what this is about.

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It's about connecting people through film,

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getting these independent[br]voices out there.

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Now, Josh Rushing actually[br]ended up leaving the military

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and taking a job with Al Jazeera.

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(Laughter)

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So his feeling is that[br]he's at Al Jazeera International

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because he feels like[br]he can actually use media

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to bridge the gap between East and West.

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And that's an amazing thing.

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But I've been trying to think about ways

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to give power to these independent voices,

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to give power to the filmmakers,

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to give power to people who are trying[br]to use film for change.

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And there are incredible organizations

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that are out there doing this already.

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There's Witness,[br]that you heard from earlier.

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There's Just Vision, that are working[br]with Palestinians and Israelis

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who are working together for peace,[br]and documenting that process

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and getting interviews[br]out there and using this film

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to take to Congress to show[br]that it's a powerful tool,

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to show that this is a woman who's had[br]her daughter killed in an attack,

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and she believes that there[br]are peaceful ways to solve this.

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There's Working Films[br]and there's Current TV,

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which is an incredible platform[br]for people around the world

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to be able to put their --

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(Applause)

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Yeah, it's amazing.

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I've watched it and I'm blown away by it

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and its potential to bring voices[br]from around the world --

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independent voices[br]from around the world --

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and create a truly democratic,[br]global television.

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So what can we do to create[br]a platform for these organizations,

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to create some momentum,

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to get everybody in the world[br]involved in this movement?

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I'd like for us to imagine for a second.

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Imagine a day when you have everyone[br]coming together from around the world.

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You have towns and villages[br]and theaters --

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all from around the world,

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getting together, and sitting in the dark,

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and sharing a communal[br]experience of watching a film,

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or a couple of films, together.

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Watching a film which maybe highlights[br]a character that is fighting to live,

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or just a character[br]that defies stereotypes,

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makes a joke, sings a song.

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Comedies, documentaries, shorts.

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This amazing power[br]can be used to change people

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and to bond people together;[br]to cross borders,

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and have people feel like[br]they're having a communal experience.

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So if you imagine this day[br]when all around the world,

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you have theaters and places[br]where we project films.

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If you imagine projecting[br]from Times Square

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to Tahrir Square in Cairo,

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the same film in Ramallah,[br]the same film in Jerusalem.

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You know, we've been talking[br]to a friend of mine

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about using the side of the Great Pyramid

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and the Great Wall of China.

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It's endless what you can imagine,

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in terms of where you can project films

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and where you can have[br]this communal experience.

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And I believe that this one day,[br]if we can create it,

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this one day can create momentum[br]for all of these independent voices.

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There isn't an organization[br]which is connecting the independent voices

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of the world to get out there,

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and yet I'm hearing[br]throughout this conference

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that the biggest challenge in our future

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is understanding the other,

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and having mutual respect[br]for the other and crossing borders.

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And if film can do that,

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and if we can get all of these[br]different locations in the world

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to watch these films together --

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this could be an incredible day.

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So we've already made a partnership,

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set up through somebody[br]from the TED community,

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John Camen, who introduced me[br]to Steven Apkon,

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from the Jacob Burns Film Center.

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And we started calling up everybody.

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And in the last week,

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there have been so many people[br]that have responded to us,

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from as close as Palo Alto,[br]to Mongolia and to India.

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There are people that want to be[br]a part of this global day of film;

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to be able to provide a platform[br]for independent voices

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and independent films to get out there.

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Now, we've thought[br]about a name for this day,

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and I'd like to share this with you.

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Now, the most amazing part[br]of this whole process

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has been sharing ideas and wishes,

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and so I invite you[br]to give brainstorms onto

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how does this day echo into the future?

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How do we use technology to make[br]this day echo into the future,

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so that we can build community

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and have these communities working[br]together, through the Internet?

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There was a time, many, many years ago,

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when all of the continents[br]were stuck together.

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And we call that landmass Pangea.

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So what we'd like to call this day of film[br]is Pangea Cinema Day.

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And if you just imagine

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that all of these people[br]in these towns would be watching,

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then I think that we can[br]actually really make a movement

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towards people understanding[br]each other better.

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I know that it's very intangible,[br]touching people's hearts and souls,

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but the only way that I know how to do it,

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the only way that I know how to reach out[br]to somebody's heart and soul

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all across the world,[br]is by showing them a film.

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And I know that there are independent[br]filmmakers and films out there

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that can really make this happen.

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And that's my wish.

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I guess I'm supposed to give you[br]my one-sentence wish,

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but we're way out of time.

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Chris Anderson:[br]That is an incredible wish.

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Pangea Cinema: The day[br]the world comes together.

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JN: It's more tangible than world peace,[br]and it's certainly more immediate.

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But it would be the day that the world[br]comes together through film,

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the power of film.

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CA: Ladies and gentlemen, Jehane Noujaim.