1 00:00:00,230 --> 00:00:01,559 I can't help but this wish: 2 00:00:01,583 --> 00:00:06,016 to think about when you're a little kid, and all your friends ask you, 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:08,628 "If a genie could give you one wish in the world, 4 00:00:08,652 --> 00:00:09,806 what would it be?" 5 00:00:10,183 --> 00:00:11,572 And I always answered, 6 00:00:11,596 --> 00:00:12,906 "Well, I'd want the wish 7 00:00:12,930 --> 00:00:16,418 to have the wisdom to know exactly what to wish for." 8 00:00:16,772 --> 00:00:18,123 Well, then you'd be screwed, 9 00:00:18,147 --> 00:00:21,162 because you'd know what to wish for, and you'd use up your wish, 10 00:00:21,186 --> 00:00:25,009 and now, since we only have one wish -- unlike last year they had three wishes -- 11 00:00:25,033 --> 00:00:26,519 I'm not going to wish for that. 12 00:00:26,543 --> 00:00:31,546 So let's get to what I would like, which is world peace. 13 00:00:31,570 --> 00:00:33,602 And I know what you're thinking: 14 00:00:33,626 --> 00:00:35,590 You're thinking, "The poor girl up there, 15 00:00:35,614 --> 00:00:37,391 she thinks she's at a beauty pageant. 16 00:00:37,415 --> 00:00:39,666 She's not. She's at the TED Prize." 17 00:00:39,690 --> 00:00:42,276 (Laughter) 18 00:00:42,824 --> 00:00:44,863 But I really do think it makes sense. 19 00:00:45,244 --> 00:00:47,839 And I think that the first step to world peace 20 00:00:47,863 --> 00:00:49,683 is for people to meet each other. 21 00:00:49,707 --> 00:00:52,195 I've met a lot of different people over the years, 22 00:00:52,219 --> 00:00:53,621 and I've filmed some of them, 23 00:00:53,645 --> 00:00:58,541 from a dotcom executive in New York who wanted to take over the world, 24 00:00:58,565 --> 00:01:00,976 to a military press officer in Qatar, 25 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,505 who would rather not take over the world. 26 00:01:03,529 --> 00:01:06,214 If you've seen the film "Control Room" that was sent out, 27 00:01:06,238 --> 00:01:07,863 you'd understand a little bit why. 28 00:01:07,887 --> 00:01:09,038 (Applause) 29 00:01:09,062 --> 00:01:10,220 Thank you. 30 00:01:10,244 --> 00:01:13,516 Wow! Some of you watched it. That's great. That's great. 31 00:01:13,540 --> 00:01:18,110 So basically what I'd like to talk about today 32 00:01:18,134 --> 00:01:20,976 is a way for people to travel, 33 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,976 to meet people in a different way than -- 34 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,976 because you can't travel all over the world at the same time. 35 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:33,236 And a long time ago -- well, about 40 years ago -- 36 00:01:33,260 --> 00:01:35,786 my mom had an exchange student. 37 00:01:36,897 --> 00:01:39,715 And I'm going to show you slides of the exchange student. 38 00:01:39,739 --> 00:01:40,890 This is Donna. 39 00:01:40,914 --> 00:01:42,945 This is Donna at the Statue of Liberty. 40 00:01:44,446 --> 00:01:47,466 This is my mother and aunt teaching Donna how to ride a bike. 41 00:01:48,538 --> 00:01:50,451 This is Donna eating ice cream. 42 00:01:51,284 --> 00:01:55,597 And this is Donna teaching my aunt how to do a Filipino dance. 43 00:01:57,882 --> 00:02:00,099 I really think as the world is getting smaller, 44 00:02:00,123 --> 00:02:01,766 it becomes more and more important 45 00:02:01,790 --> 00:02:03,652 that we learn each other's dance moves, 46 00:02:03,676 --> 00:02:06,082 that we meet each other, we get to know each other, 47 00:02:06,106 --> 00:02:09,745 we are able to figure out a way to cross borders, 48 00:02:09,769 --> 00:02:12,893 to understand each other, to understand people's hopes and dreams, 49 00:02:12,917 --> 00:02:14,373 what makes them laugh and cry. 50 00:02:14,397 --> 00:02:17,418 And I know that we can't all do exchange programs, 51 00:02:17,442 --> 00:02:19,267 and I can't force everybody to travel; 52 00:02:19,291 --> 00:02:21,610 I've already talked about that to Chris and Amy, 53 00:02:21,634 --> 00:02:23,836 and they said that there's a problem with this: 54 00:02:23,860 --> 00:02:25,595 You can't force people, free will. 55 00:02:25,619 --> 00:02:28,726 And I totally support that, so we're not forcing people to travel. 56 00:02:28,750 --> 00:02:31,004 But I'd like to talk about another way to travel 57 00:02:31,028 --> 00:02:33,976 that doesn't require a ship or an airplane, 58 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,976 and just requires a movie camera, a projector and a screen. 59 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,833 And that's what I'm going to talk to you about today. 60 00:02:43,857 --> 00:02:48,588 I was asked that I speak a little bit about where I personally come from, 61 00:02:48,612 --> 00:02:51,715 and Cameron, I don't know how you managed to get out of that one, 62 00:02:51,739 --> 00:02:55,976 but I think that building bridges is important to me 63 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,147 because of where I come from. 64 00:02:58,171 --> 00:03:01,550 I'm the daughter of an American mother 65 00:03:01,574 --> 00:03:04,685 and an Egyptian-Lebanese-Syrian father. 66 00:03:04,709 --> 00:03:08,781 So I'm the living product of two cultures coming together. 67 00:03:08,805 --> 00:03:09,957 No pun intended. 68 00:03:09,981 --> 00:03:10,988 (Laughter) 69 00:03:11,012 --> 00:03:12,269 And I've also been called, 70 00:03:12,293 --> 00:03:15,142 as an Egyptian-Lebanese-Syrian American with a Persian name, 71 00:03:15,166 --> 00:03:17,056 the "Middle East Peace Crisis." 72 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:21,556 So maybe me starting to take pictures was some kind of way 73 00:03:21,580 --> 00:03:25,032 to bring both sides of my family together -- 74 00:03:25,056 --> 00:03:29,881 a way to take the worlds with me, a way to tell stories visually. 75 00:03:30,453 --> 00:03:32,049 It all kind of started that way, 76 00:03:32,073 --> 00:03:35,669 but I think that I really realized the power of the image 77 00:03:35,693 --> 00:03:38,905 when I first went to the garbage-collecting village 78 00:03:38,929 --> 00:03:40,929 in Egypt, when I was about 16. 79 00:03:41,326 --> 00:03:43,500 My mother took me there. 80 00:03:43,905 --> 00:03:46,664 She's somebody who believes strongly in community service, 81 00:03:46,688 --> 00:03:49,331 and decided that this was something that I needed to do. 82 00:03:49,355 --> 00:03:52,976 And so I went there and I met some amazing women there. 83 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,930 There was a center there, 84 00:03:55,954 --> 00:03:58,992 where they were teaching people how to read and write, 85 00:03:59,016 --> 00:04:01,230 and get vaccinations against the many diseases 86 00:04:01,254 --> 00:04:03,349 you can get from sorting through garbage. 87 00:04:03,373 --> 00:04:04,938 And I began teaching there. 88 00:04:04,962 --> 00:04:07,976 I taught English, and I met some incredible women there. 89 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,788 I met people that live seven people to a room, 90 00:04:12,812 --> 00:04:15,144 barely can afford their evening meal, 91 00:04:15,168 --> 00:04:18,691 yet lived with this strength of spirit and sense of humor 92 00:04:18,715 --> 00:04:21,397 and just incredible qualities. 93 00:04:21,421 --> 00:04:25,175 I got drawn into this community and I began to take pictures there. 94 00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:31,976 I took pictures of weddings and older family members -- 95 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,109 things that they wanted memories of. 96 00:04:35,141 --> 00:04:38,546 About two years after I started taking these pictures, 97 00:04:38,570 --> 00:04:42,976 the UN Conference on Population and Development 98 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,896 asked me to show them at the conference. 99 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,868 So I was 18; I was very excited. 100 00:04:48,892 --> 00:04:54,249 It was my first exhibit of photographs and they were all put up there, 101 00:04:54,273 --> 00:05:00,238 and after about two days, they all came down except for three. 102 00:05:00,789 --> 00:05:02,639 People were very upset, 103 00:05:02,663 --> 00:05:06,273 very angry that I was showing these dirty sides of Cairo, 104 00:05:06,297 --> 00:05:09,754 and why didn't I cut the dead donkey out of the frame? 105 00:05:09,778 --> 00:05:12,015 And as I sat there, I got very depressed. 106 00:05:12,039 --> 00:05:17,637 I looked at this big empty wall with three lonely photographs 107 00:05:17,661 --> 00:05:21,915 that were, you know, very pretty photographs 108 00:05:21,939 --> 00:05:24,830 and I was like, "I failed at this." 109 00:05:24,854 --> 00:05:29,977 But I was looking at this intense emotion and intense feeling 110 00:05:30,001 --> 00:05:33,454 that had come out of people just seeing these photographs. 111 00:05:33,478 --> 00:05:36,459 Here I was, this 18-year-old pipsqueak that nobody listened to, 112 00:05:36,483 --> 00:05:39,261 and all of a sudden, I put these photographs on the wall, 113 00:05:39,285 --> 00:05:41,917 and there were arguments, and they had to be taken down. 114 00:05:41,941 --> 00:05:45,289 And I saw the power of the image, and it was incredible. 115 00:05:45,313 --> 00:05:49,147 And I think the most important reaction that I saw there was actually from people 116 00:05:49,171 --> 00:05:52,046 that would never have gone to the garbage village themselves, 117 00:05:52,070 --> 00:05:54,935 that would never have seen that the human spirit could thrive 118 00:05:54,959 --> 00:05:57,043 in such difficult circumstances. 119 00:05:57,067 --> 00:05:58,599 And I think it was at that point 120 00:05:58,623 --> 00:06:02,885 that I decided I wanted to use photography and film 121 00:06:02,909 --> 00:06:05,351 to somehow bridge gaps, to bridge cultures, 122 00:06:05,375 --> 00:06:08,314 bring people together, cross borders. 123 00:06:10,713 --> 00:06:14,349 And so that's what really kind of started me off. 124 00:06:14,373 --> 00:06:17,678 Did a stint at MTV, made a film called "Startup.com," 125 00:06:17,702 --> 00:06:21,976 and I've done a couple of music films. 126 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,976 But in 2003, when the war in Iraq was about to start, 127 00:06:29,465 --> 00:06:31,677 it was a very surreal feeling for me, 128 00:06:31,701 --> 00:06:33,577 because before the war started, 129 00:06:33,601 --> 00:06:36,013 there was kind of this media war that was going on. 130 00:06:36,037 --> 00:06:38,053 And I was watching television in New York, 131 00:06:38,077 --> 00:06:41,714 and there seemed to be just one point of view that was coming across, 132 00:06:41,738 --> 00:06:46,565 and the coverage went from the US State Department 133 00:06:46,589 --> 00:06:48,626 to embedded troops. 134 00:06:49,087 --> 00:06:51,707 And what was coming across on the news 135 00:06:51,731 --> 00:06:55,976 was that there was going to be this clean war and precision bombings, 136 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,774 and the Iraqis would be greeting the Americans as liberators, 137 00:06:59,798 --> 00:07:03,074 and throwing flowers at their feet in the streets of Baghdad. 138 00:07:03,098 --> 00:07:05,971 And I knew that there was a completely other story 139 00:07:05,995 --> 00:07:09,013 that was taking place in the Middle East, where my parents were. 140 00:07:09,037 --> 00:07:12,102 I knew that there was a completely other story being told, 141 00:07:12,126 --> 00:07:15,658 and I was thinking, "How are people supposed to communicate with each other 142 00:07:15,682 --> 00:07:18,075 when they're getting completely different messages, 143 00:07:18,099 --> 00:07:20,206 and nobody knows what the other's being told? 144 00:07:20,230 --> 00:07:23,247 How are people supposed to have any kind of common understanding 145 00:07:23,271 --> 00:07:25,906 or know how to move together into the future? 146 00:07:25,930 --> 00:07:28,178 So I knew that I had to go there. 147 00:07:28,202 --> 00:07:30,242 I just wanted to be in the center. 148 00:07:30,266 --> 00:07:32,767 I had no plan. I had no funding. 149 00:07:32,791 --> 00:07:36,976 I didn't even have a camera at the time -- I had somebody bring it there, 150 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,976 because I wanted to get access to Al Jazeera, 151 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,976 George Bush's favorite channel, 152 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:47,241 and a place which I was very curious about because it's disliked 153 00:07:47,265 --> 00:07:49,756 by many governments across the Arab world, 154 00:07:49,780 --> 00:07:53,382 and also called the mouthpiece of Osama Bin Laden 155 00:07:53,406 --> 00:07:55,587 by some people in the US government. 156 00:07:55,611 --> 00:07:59,885 So I was thinking, this station that's hated by so many people 157 00:07:59,909 --> 00:08:01,442 has to be doing something right. 158 00:08:01,466 --> 00:08:04,975 I've got to go see what this is all about. 159 00:08:04,999 --> 00:08:07,096 And I also wanted to go see Central Command, 160 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:08,664 which was 10 minutes away. 161 00:08:08,688 --> 00:08:13,976 And that way, I could get access to how this news was being created -- 162 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,208 on the Arab side, reaching the Arab world, 163 00:08:16,232 --> 00:08:18,991 and on the US and Western side, reaching the US. 164 00:08:19,015 --> 00:08:20,756 And when I went there and sat there, 165 00:08:20,780 --> 00:08:23,837 and met these people that were in the center of it, 166 00:08:23,861 --> 00:08:27,467 and sat with these characters, 167 00:08:27,491 --> 00:08:31,768 I met some surprising, very complex people. 168 00:08:31,792 --> 00:08:35,976 And I'd like to share with you a little bit of that experience 169 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,474 of when you sit with somebody 170 00:08:37,498 --> 00:08:39,522 and you film them, and you listen to them, 171 00:08:39,546 --> 00:08:42,516 and you allow them more than a five-second sound bite. 172 00:08:43,314 --> 00:08:48,000 The amazing complexity of people emerges. 173 00:08:51,701 --> 00:08:53,976 Samir Khader: Business as usual. 174 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,350 Iraq, and then Iraq, and then Iraq. 175 00:09:00,897 --> 00:09:05,674 But between us, if I'm offered a job with Fox, I'll take it. 176 00:09:10,977 --> 00:09:15,270 To change the Arab nightmare into the American dream. 177 00:09:20,979 --> 00:09:23,205 I still have that dream. 178 00:09:23,229 --> 00:09:25,976 Maybe I will never be able to do it, 179 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,720 but I have plans for my children. 180 00:09:30,524 --> 00:09:31,914 When they finish high school, 181 00:09:31,938 --> 00:09:33,954 I will send them to America to study there. 182 00:09:33,978 --> 00:09:35,723 I will pay for their study. 183 00:09:36,641 --> 00:09:38,590 And they will stay there. 184 00:09:45,175 --> 00:09:49,028 Josh Rushing: The night they showed the POWs and the dead soldiers -- 185 00:09:49,052 --> 00:09:50,268 Al Jazeera showed them -- 186 00:09:50,292 --> 00:09:53,496 it was powerful, because America doesn't show those kinds of images. 187 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:56,205 Most of the news in America won't show really gory images 188 00:09:56,229 --> 00:09:59,404 and this showed American soldiers in uniform, strewn about a floor, 189 00:09:59,428 --> 00:10:00,603 a cold tile floor. 190 00:10:00,627 --> 00:10:03,363 And it was revolting. 191 00:10:03,387 --> 00:10:04,873 It was absolutely revolting. 192 00:10:04,897 --> 00:10:06,349 It made me sick at my stomach. 193 00:10:06,373 --> 00:10:09,699 And then what hit me was, the night before, 194 00:10:09,723 --> 00:10:13,318 there had been some kind of bombing in Basra, 195 00:10:13,342 --> 00:10:18,158 and Al Jazeera had shown images of the people. 196 00:10:18,182 --> 00:10:22,376 And they were equally, if not more, horrifying -- the images were. 197 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,015 And I remember having seen it in the Al Jazeera office, 198 00:10:25,039 --> 00:10:28,228 and thought to myself, "Wow, that's gross. 199 00:10:28,252 --> 00:10:30,043 That's bad." 200 00:10:30,067 --> 00:10:32,977 And then going away, and probably eating dinner or something. 201 00:10:33,001 --> 00:10:34,604 And it didn't affect me as much. 202 00:10:34,628 --> 00:10:37,451 So, the impact that had on me -- 203 00:10:37,475 --> 00:10:41,133 me realizing that I just saw people on the other side, 204 00:10:41,157 --> 00:10:43,969 and those people in the Al Jazeera office 205 00:10:43,993 --> 00:10:46,280 must have felt the way I was feeling that night, 206 00:10:46,304 --> 00:10:49,423 and it upset me on a profound level 207 00:10:49,447 --> 00:10:53,031 that I wasn't as bothered as much the night before. 208 00:10:53,650 --> 00:10:55,222 It makes me hate war. 209 00:10:55,650 --> 00:10:58,228 But it doesn't make me believe that we're in a world 210 00:10:58,252 --> 00:10:59,763 that can live without war yet. 211 00:10:59,787 --> 00:11:02,880 Jehane Noujaim: I was overwhelmed by the response of the film. 212 00:11:02,904 --> 00:11:05,587 We didn't know whether it would be able to get out there. 213 00:11:05,611 --> 00:11:06,827 We had no funding for it. 214 00:11:06,851 --> 00:11:10,141 We were incredibly lucky that it got picked up. 215 00:11:11,053 --> 00:11:13,534 And when we showed the film 216 00:11:13,558 --> 00:11:16,234 in both the United States and the Arab world, 217 00:11:16,258 --> 00:11:18,375 we had such incredible reactions. 218 00:11:18,399 --> 00:11:21,407 It was amazing to see how people were moved by this film. 219 00:11:21,431 --> 00:11:23,594 In the Arab world -- 220 00:11:23,618 --> 00:11:26,455 and it's not really by the film, it's by the characters -- 221 00:11:26,479 --> 00:11:30,510 I mean, Josh Rushing was this incredibly complex person 222 00:11:30,534 --> 00:11:32,061 who was thinking about things. 223 00:11:32,085 --> 00:11:34,354 And when I showed the film in the Middle East, 224 00:11:34,378 --> 00:11:36,976 people wanted to meet Josh. 225 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,976 He kind of redefined us as an American population. 226 00:11:40,894 --> 00:11:44,976 People started to ask me, "Where is this guy now?" 227 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,999 Al Jazeera offered him a job. 228 00:11:47,023 --> 00:11:48,976 (Laughter) 229 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,250 And Samir, on the other hand, 230 00:11:51,274 --> 00:11:54,608 was also quite an interesting character for the Arab world to see, 231 00:11:54,632 --> 00:11:58,289 because it brought out the complexities of this love-hate relationship 232 00:11:58,313 --> 00:12:00,431 that the Arab world has with the West. 233 00:12:01,257 --> 00:12:06,448 In the United States, I was blown away by the motivations, 234 00:12:06,472 --> 00:12:09,296 the positive motivations of the American people 235 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:11,390 when they'd see this film. 236 00:12:11,414 --> 00:12:13,009 You know, we're criticized abroad 237 00:12:13,033 --> 00:12:16,524 for believing we're the saviors of the world in some way, 238 00:12:16,548 --> 00:12:19,867 but the flip side of it is that, actually, 239 00:12:19,891 --> 00:12:22,225 when people do see what is happening abroad 240 00:12:22,249 --> 00:12:24,976 and people's reactions to some of our policy abroad, 241 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,270 we feel this power, that we need to -- 242 00:12:27,294 --> 00:12:29,889 we feel like we have to get the power to change things. 243 00:12:29,913 --> 00:12:31,468 And I saw this with audiences. 244 00:12:31,492 --> 00:12:35,248 This woman came up to me after the screening and said, 245 00:12:35,272 --> 00:12:36,865 "You know, I know this is crazy. 246 00:12:36,889 --> 00:12:38,912 I saw the bombs being loaded on the planes, 247 00:12:38,936 --> 00:12:40,675 I saw the military going out to war, 248 00:12:40,699 --> 00:12:43,061 but you don't understand people's anger towards us 249 00:12:43,085 --> 00:12:47,248 until you see the people in the hospitals and the victims of the war, 250 00:12:47,272 --> 00:12:49,217 and how do we get out of this bubble? 251 00:12:49,241 --> 00:12:53,172 How do we understand what the other person is thinking?" 252 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,071 Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world. 253 00:12:58,095 --> 00:13:00,572 But I know the power of it, 254 00:13:00,596 --> 00:13:03,976 I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world. 255 00:13:04,613 --> 00:13:06,303 Now, I'm not a philosopher, 256 00:13:06,327 --> 00:13:09,185 so I feel like I shouldn't go into great depth on this, 257 00:13:09,209 --> 00:13:12,976 but let film speak for itself and take you to this other world. 258 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,100 Because I believe that film has the ability to take you across borders, 259 00:13:17,124 --> 00:13:21,142 I'd like you to just sit back and experience for a couple of minutes 260 00:13:21,166 --> 00:13:22,976 being taken into another world. 261 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:28,707 And these couple clips take you inside of two of the most difficult conflicts 262 00:13:28,731 --> 00:13:30,406 that we're faced with today. 263 00:13:31,578 --> 00:13:34,562 [The last 48 hours of two Palestinian suicide bombers.] 264 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:38,480 [Paradise Now] 265 00:13:39,927 --> 00:13:43,126 [Man: As long as there is injustice, someone must make a sacrifice!] 266 00:13:43,150 --> 00:13:45,475 [Woman: That's no sacrifice, that's revenge!] 267 00:13:46,657 --> 00:13:51,739 [If you kill, there's no difference between victim and occupier.] 268 00:13:51,763 --> 00:13:57,530 [Man: If we had airplanes, we wouldn't need martyrs, that's the difference.] 269 00:13:57,554 --> 00:14:02,764 [Woman: The difference is that the Israeli military is still stronger.] 270 00:14:02,788 --> 00:14:04,976 [Man: Then let us be equal in death.] 271 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,081 [We still have Paradise.] 272 00:14:07,105 --> 00:14:10,027 [Woman: There is no Paradise! It only exists in your head!] 273 00:14:10,051 --> 00:14:12,275 [Man: God forbid!] 274 00:14:12,798 --> 00:14:14,976 [May God forgive you.] 275 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,000 [If you were not Abu Azzam's daughter ...] 276 00:14:19,932 --> 00:14:23,191 [Anyway, I'd rather have Paradise in my head than live in this hell!] 277 00:14:23,215 --> 00:14:24,912 [In this life, we're dead anyway.] 278 00:14:26,650 --> 00:14:32,058 [One only chooses bitterness when the alternative is even bitterer.] 279 00:14:32,999 --> 00:14:35,494 [Woman: And what about us? The ones who remain?] 280 00:14:35,518 --> 00:14:38,654 [Will we win that way?] 281 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:43,765 [Don't you see what you're doing is destroying us?] 282 00:14:43,789 --> 00:14:47,922 [And that you give Israel an alibi to carry on?] 283 00:14:47,946 --> 00:14:50,337 [Man: So with no alibi, Israel will stop?] 284 00:14:50,361 --> 00:14:54,569 [Woman: Perhaps. We have to turn it into a moral war.] 285 00:14:54,593 --> 00:14:57,866 [Man: How, if Israel has no morals?] 286 00:14:57,890 --> 00:15:00,000 [Woman: Be careful!] 287 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:06,930 [And the real people building peace through non-violence] 288 00:15:08,025 --> 00:15:11,109 [Encounter Point] 289 00:15:11,856 --> 00:15:15,975 Video: (Ambulance siren) [Tel Aviv, Israel 1996] 290 00:15:17,014 --> 00:15:19,463 [Tzvika: My wife Ayelet called me and said, ] 291 00:15:19,487 --> 00:15:22,280 ["There was a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv."] 292 00:15:22,915 --> 00:15:25,427 [Ayelet: What do you know about the casualties?] 293 00:15:25,451 --> 00:15:28,271 [Tzvika off-screen: We're looking for three girls.] 294 00:15:28,295 --> 00:15:29,571 [We have no information.] 295 00:15:29,595 --> 00:15:33,976 [Ayelet: One is wounded here, but we haven't heard from the other three.] 296 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,925 [Tzvika: I said, "OK, that's Bat-Chen, that's my daughter.] 297 00:15:37,949 --> 00:15:40,133 [Are you sure she is dead?"] 298 00:15:40,157 --> 00:15:41,311 [They said yes.] 299 00:15:41,335 --> 00:15:43,637 Video: (Police siren and shouting over megaphone) 300 00:15:43,661 --> 00:15:47,947 [Bethlehem, Occupied Palestinian Territories, 2003] 301 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,976 [George: On that day, at around 6:30] 302 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:59,917 [I was driving with my wife and daughters to the supermarket.] 303 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,024 [When we got to here ...] 304 00:16:05,048 --> 00:16:09,983 [we saw three Israeli military jeeps parked on the side of the road.] 305 00:16:11,300 --> 00:16:13,596 [When we passed by the first jeep ...] 306 00:16:13,620 --> 00:16:16,562 [they opened fire on us.] 307 00:16:16,896 --> 00:16:19,739 [And my 12-year-old daughter Christine] 308 00:16:19,763 --> 00:16:22,428 [was killed in the shooting.] 309 00:16:22,793 --> 00:16:27,134 [Bereaved Families Forum, Jerusalem] 310 00:16:33,774 --> 00:16:36,842 [Tzvika: I'm the headmaster for all parts.] 311 00:16:36,866 --> 00:16:39,264 [George: But there is a teacher that is in charge?] 312 00:16:39,288 --> 00:16:41,204 [Tzvika: Yes, I have assistants.] 313 00:16:41,228 --> 00:16:44,253 [I deal with children all the time.] 314 00:16:44,277 --> 00:16:49,265 [One year after their daughters' deaths both Tzvika and George join the forum] 315 00:16:50,963 --> 00:16:56,222 [George: At first, I thought it was a strange idea.] 316 00:16:56,246 --> 00:16:58,664 [But after thinking logically about it, ] 317 00:16:58,688 --> 00:17:04,296 [I didn't find any reason why not to meet them] 318 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:09,257 [and let them know of our suffering.] 319 00:17:09,774 --> 00:17:13,218 [Tzvika: There were many things that touched me.] 320 00:17:13,242 --> 00:17:18,357 [We see that there are Palestinians who suffered a lot, who lost children,] 321 00:17:18,381 --> 00:17:21,976 [and still believe in the peace process and in reconciliation.] 322 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,625 [If we who lost what is most precious can talk to each other,] 323 00:17:25,649 --> 00:17:28,776 [and look forward to a better future,] 324 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:34,178 [then everyone else must do so, too.] 325 00:17:35,749 --> 00:17:39,591 [From South Africa: A Revolution Through Music] 326 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,556 [Amandla] 327 00:17:42,937 --> 00:17:43,976 (Music) 328 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,468 (Video) Man: Song is something that we communicated with people 329 00:17:47,492 --> 00:17:52,047 who otherwise would not have understood where we're coming from. 330 00:17:52,071 --> 00:17:54,714 You could give them a long political speech, 331 00:17:54,738 --> 00:17:56,617 they would still not understand. 332 00:17:57,038 --> 00:17:59,737 But I tell you, when you finish that song, 333 00:17:59,761 --> 00:18:03,305 people will be like, "Damn, I know where you niggas are coming from. 334 00:18:03,766 --> 00:18:05,813 I know where you guys are coming from. 335 00:18:05,837 --> 00:18:07,257 Death unto apartheid!" 336 00:18:07,989 --> 00:18:10,298 Narrator: It's about the liberation struggle. 337 00:18:11,362 --> 00:18:14,809 It's about those children who took to the streets -- 338 00:18:14,833 --> 00:18:18,525 fighting, screaming, "Free Nelson Mandela!" 339 00:18:19,477 --> 00:18:24,352 It's about those unions who put down their tools 340 00:18:24,376 --> 00:18:26,355 and demanded freedom. 341 00:18:27,022 --> 00:18:29,657 Yes. Yes! 342 00:18:29,681 --> 00:18:34,523 (Music and singing) 343 00:18:34,547 --> 00:18:36,547 (Singing) Freedom! 344 00:18:37,589 --> 00:18:41,348 (Applause) 345 00:18:41,372 --> 00:18:45,014 Jehane Noujaim: I think everybody's had that feeling of sitting in a theater, 346 00:18:45,038 --> 00:18:49,284 in a dark room, with other strangers, watching a very powerful film, 347 00:18:49,308 --> 00:18:52,023 and they felt that feeling of transformation. 348 00:18:52,340 --> 00:18:55,292 And what I'd like to talk about is 349 00:18:55,316 --> 00:18:57,976 how can we use that feeling 350 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,358 to actually create a movement through film? 351 00:19:02,837 --> 00:19:07,358 I've been listening to the talks in the conference, 352 00:19:07,382 --> 00:19:09,437 and Robert Wright said yesterday 353 00:19:09,461 --> 00:19:13,029 that if we have an appreciation for another person's humanity, 354 00:19:13,053 --> 00:19:15,585 then they will have an appreciation for ours. 355 00:19:15,609 --> 00:19:17,407 And that's what this is about. 356 00:19:17,431 --> 00:19:19,976 It's about connecting people through film, 357 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,741 getting these independent voices out there. 358 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:28,184 Now, Josh Rushing actually ended up leaving the military 359 00:19:28,208 --> 00:19:30,255 and taking a job with Al Jazeera. 360 00:19:30,279 --> 00:19:31,572 (Laughter) 361 00:19:31,596 --> 00:19:35,183 So his feeling is that he's at Al Jazeera International 362 00:19:35,207 --> 00:19:37,976 because he feels like he can actually use media 363 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,407 to bridge the gap between East and West. 364 00:19:41,415 --> 00:19:43,384 And that's an amazing thing. 365 00:19:43,408 --> 00:19:46,240 But I've been trying to think about ways 366 00:19:46,264 --> 00:19:48,924 to give power to these independent voices, 367 00:19:48,948 --> 00:19:50,541 to give power to the filmmakers, 368 00:19:50,565 --> 00:19:54,976 to give power to people who are trying to use film for change. 369 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,849 And there are incredible organizations 370 00:19:56,873 --> 00:19:58,976 that are out there doing this already. 371 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,976 There's Witness, that you heard from earlier. 372 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,570 There's Just Vision, that are working with Palestinians and Israelis 373 00:20:05,594 --> 00:20:08,926 who are working together for peace, and documenting that process 374 00:20:08,950 --> 00:20:11,726 and getting interviews out there and using this film 375 00:20:11,750 --> 00:20:14,698 to take to Congress to show that it's a powerful tool, 376 00:20:14,722 --> 00:20:19,261 to show that this is a woman who's had her daughter killed in an attack, 377 00:20:19,285 --> 00:20:22,411 and she believes that there are peaceful ways to solve this. 378 00:20:22,435 --> 00:20:26,245 There's Working Films and there's Current TV, 379 00:20:26,269 --> 00:20:29,576 which is an incredible platform for people around the world 380 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:30,848 to be able to put their -- 381 00:20:30,872 --> 00:20:31,876 (Applause) 382 00:20:31,900 --> 00:20:33,051 Yeah, it's amazing. 383 00:20:33,075 --> 00:20:36,502 I've watched it and I'm blown away by it 384 00:20:36,526 --> 00:20:39,810 and its potential to bring voices from around the world -- 385 00:20:39,834 --> 00:20:41,842 independent voices from around the world -- 386 00:20:41,866 --> 00:20:45,302 and create a truly democratic, global television. 387 00:20:45,326 --> 00:20:49,077 So what can we do to create a platform for these organizations, 388 00:20:49,101 --> 00:20:50,976 to create some momentum, 389 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,391 to get everybody in the world involved in this movement? 390 00:20:56,494 --> 00:20:59,509 I'd like for us to imagine for a second. 391 00:21:01,198 --> 00:21:08,029 Imagine a day when you have everyone coming together from around the world. 392 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:15,708 You have towns and villages and theaters -- 393 00:21:15,732 --> 00:21:18,286 all from around the world, 394 00:21:18,310 --> 00:21:21,049 getting together, and sitting in the dark, 395 00:21:21,073 --> 00:21:25,573 and sharing a communal experience of watching a film, 396 00:21:25,597 --> 00:21:27,720 or a couple of films, together. 397 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:34,482 Watching a film which maybe highlights a character that is fighting to live, 398 00:21:34,506 --> 00:21:37,680 or just a character that defies stereotypes, 399 00:21:37,704 --> 00:21:39,773 makes a joke, sings a song. 400 00:21:39,797 --> 00:21:42,076 Comedies, documentaries, shorts. 401 00:21:42,100 --> 00:21:44,779 This amazing power can be used to change people 402 00:21:44,803 --> 00:21:47,627 and to bond people together; to cross borders, 403 00:21:47,651 --> 00:21:51,166 and have people feel like they're having a communal experience. 404 00:21:51,190 --> 00:21:54,136 So if you imagine this day when all around the world, 405 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:59,679 you have theaters and places where we project films. 406 00:21:59,703 --> 00:22:03,298 If you imagine projecting from Times Square 407 00:22:03,322 --> 00:22:06,100 to Tahrir Square in Cairo, 408 00:22:06,124 --> 00:22:09,800 the same film in Ramallah, the same film in Jerusalem. 409 00:22:09,824 --> 00:22:13,124 You know, we've been talking to a friend of mine 410 00:22:13,148 --> 00:22:15,822 about using the side of the Great Pyramid 411 00:22:15,846 --> 00:22:17,505 and the Great Wall of China. 412 00:22:20,175 --> 00:22:22,976 It's endless what you can imagine, 413 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,112 in terms of where you can project films 414 00:22:25,136 --> 00:22:27,860 and where you can have this communal experience. 415 00:22:27,884 --> 00:22:30,976 And I believe that this one day, if we can create it, 416 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:35,351 this one day can create momentum for all of these independent voices. 417 00:22:35,375 --> 00:22:40,404 There isn't an organization which is connecting the independent voices 418 00:22:40,428 --> 00:22:41,976 of the world to get out there, 419 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,180 and yet I'm hearing throughout this conference 420 00:22:44,204 --> 00:22:46,234 that the biggest challenge in our future 421 00:22:46,258 --> 00:22:47,870 is understanding the other, 422 00:22:47,894 --> 00:22:51,827 and having mutual respect for the other and crossing borders. 423 00:22:51,851 --> 00:22:53,724 And if film can do that, 424 00:22:53,748 --> 00:22:56,926 and if we can get all of these different locations in the world 425 00:22:56,950 --> 00:22:59,554 to watch these films together -- 426 00:22:59,578 --> 00:23:01,735 this could be an incredible day. 427 00:23:02,226 --> 00:23:05,540 So we've already made a partnership, 428 00:23:05,564 --> 00:23:09,453 set up through somebody from the TED community, 429 00:23:09,477 --> 00:23:12,347 John Camen, who introduced me to Steven Apkon, 430 00:23:12,371 --> 00:23:14,976 from the Jacob Burns Film Center. 431 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,890 And we started calling up everybody. 432 00:23:16,914 --> 00:23:18,273 And in the last week, 433 00:23:18,297 --> 00:23:21,976 there have been so many people that have responded to us, 434 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,976 from as close as Palo Alto, to Mongolia and to India. 435 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,556 There are people that want to be a part of this global day of film; 436 00:23:31,580 --> 00:23:34,976 to be able to provide a platform for independent voices 437 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,564 and independent films to get out there. 438 00:23:39,183 --> 00:23:42,846 Now, we've thought about a name for this day, 439 00:23:42,870 --> 00:23:45,329 and I'd like to share this with you. 440 00:23:45,353 --> 00:23:47,614 Now, the most amazing part of this whole process 441 00:23:47,638 --> 00:23:50,966 has been sharing ideas and wishes, 442 00:23:50,990 --> 00:23:53,976 and so I invite you to give brainstorms onto 443 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,521 how does this day echo into the future? 444 00:23:57,545 --> 00:24:02,276 How do we use technology to make this day echo into the future, 445 00:24:02,300 --> 00:24:03,976 so that we can build community 446 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,000 and have these communities working together, through the Internet? 447 00:24:09,151 --> 00:24:11,690 There was a time, many, many years ago, 448 00:24:11,714 --> 00:24:14,000 when all of the continents were stuck together. 449 00:24:14,925 --> 00:24:17,870 And we call that landmass Pangea. 450 00:24:17,894 --> 00:24:22,487 So what we'd like to call this day of film is Pangea Cinema Day. 451 00:24:23,614 --> 00:24:25,113 And if you just imagine 452 00:24:25,137 --> 00:24:28,620 that all of these people in these towns would be watching, 453 00:24:28,644 --> 00:24:32,633 then I think that we can actually really make a movement 454 00:24:32,657 --> 00:24:34,976 towards people understanding each other better. 455 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,819 I know that it's very intangible, touching people's hearts and souls, 456 00:24:38,843 --> 00:24:40,876 but the only way that I know how to do it, 457 00:24:40,900 --> 00:24:45,485 the only way that I know how to reach out to somebody's heart and soul 458 00:24:45,509 --> 00:24:48,016 all across the world, is by showing them a film. 459 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,401 And I know that there are independent filmmakers and films out there 460 00:24:51,425 --> 00:24:53,489 that can really make this happen. 461 00:24:54,072 --> 00:24:55,615 And that's my wish. 462 00:24:56,154 --> 00:25:00,601 I guess I'm supposed to give you my one-sentence wish, 463 00:25:00,625 --> 00:25:02,403 but we're way out of time. 464 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,320 Chris Anderson: That is an incredible wish. 465 00:25:05,344 --> 00:25:07,976 Pangea Cinema: The day the world comes together. 466 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,718 JN: It's more tangible than world peace, and it's certainly more immediate. 467 00:25:11,742 --> 00:25:17,460 But it would be the day that the world comes together through film, 468 00:25:17,484 --> 00:25:18,635 the power of film. 469 00:25:18,659 --> 00:25:21,000 CA: Ladies and gentlemen, Jehane Noujaim.