My wish: A global day of film
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0:00 - 0:04I can't help but with this wish to think about when you're a little kid
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0:04 - 0:07and you -- all your friends ask you if a genie could
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0:07 - 0:10give you one wish in the world, what would it be?
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0:10 - 0:14And I always answered, "Well, I'd want the wish
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0:14 - 0:17to have the wisdom to know exactly what to wish for."
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0:17 - 0:19Well, then you'd be screwed because you'd know what to wish for
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0:19 - 0:21and you'd used up your wish.
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0:21 - 0:24And now, since we only have one wish -- unlike last year they had three wishes --
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0:24 - 0:26I'm not going to wish for that.
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0:26 - 0:31So let's get to what I would like, which is world peace.
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0:31 - 0:33And I know what you're thinking.
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0:33 - 0:35You're thinking, the poor girl up there --
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0:35 - 0:37she thinks she's at a beauty pageant.
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0:37 - 0:40She's not. She's at the TED Prize. (Laughter)
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0:40 - 0:45But I really do think it makes sense,
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0:45 - 0:49and I think that the first step to world peace is for people to meet each other.
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0:49 - 0:52I've met a lot of different people over the years
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0:52 - 0:54and I've filmed some of them --
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0:54 - 0:58from a dotcom executive in New York that wanted to take over the world
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0:58 - 1:01to a military press officer in Qatar
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1:01 - 1:03that would rather not take over the world.
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1:03 - 1:06If you've seen the film "Control Room" that was sent out,
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1:06 - 1:08you'd understand a little bit why. Thank you.
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1:08 - 1:09(Applause)
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1:09 - 1:11Wow! Some of you watched it.
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1:11 - 1:13That's great. That's great.
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1:13 - 1:18So basically what I'd like to talk about today
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1:18 - 1:21is a way for people to travel,
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1:21 - 1:25to meet people in a different way than --
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1:25 - 1:28because you can't travel all over the world at the same time.
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1:28 - 1:33And a long time ago -- well, about 40 years ago --
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1:33 - 1:37my mom had an exchange student.
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1:37 - 1:39And I'm going to show you slides of the exchange student.
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1:39 - 1:41This is Donna.
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1:41 - 1:44This is Donna at the Statue of Liberty.
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1:44 - 1:48This is my mother and aunt teaching Donna how to ride a bike.
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1:48 - 1:51This is Donna eating ice cream.
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1:51 - 1:58And this is Donna teaching my aunt how to do a Filipino dance.
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1:58 - 2:00Now I really think as the world is getting smaller,
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2:00 - 2:03it becomes more and more important that we learn each other's dance moves,
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2:03 - 2:05that we meet each other, we get to know each other,
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2:05 - 2:09we are able to figure out a way to cross borders,
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2:09 - 2:12to understand each other, to understand people's hopes and dreams,
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2:12 - 2:14what makes them laugh and cry.
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2:14 - 2:17And I know that we can't all do exchange programs,
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2:17 - 2:19and I can't force everybody to travel.
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2:19 - 2:21I've already talked about that to Chris and Amy,
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2:21 - 2:23and they said that there's a problem with this.
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2:23 - 2:26You can't force people of free will, and I totally support that. (Laughter)
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2:26 - 2:28So we're not forcing people to travel.
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2:28 - 2:30But I'd like to talk about another way to travel
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2:30 - 2:34that doesn't require a ship or an airplane,
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2:34 - 2:39and just requires a movie camera, a projector and a screen.
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2:39 - 2:44And that's what I'm going to talk to you about today.
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2:44 - 2:46I was asked that I speak a little bit
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2:46 - 2:48about where I personally come from,
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2:48 - 2:51and Cameron, I don't know how you managed to get out of that one,
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2:51 - 2:56but I think that building bridges is important to me
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2:56 - 2:58because of where I come from.
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2:58 - 3:01I'm the daughter of an American mother
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3:01 - 3:04and an Egyptian-Lebanese-Syrian father.
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3:04 - 3:09So I'm the living product of two cultures coming together.
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3:09 - 3:10No pun intended.
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3:10 - 3:11And I've also been called --
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3:11 - 3:15as an Egyptian-Lebanese-Syrian American with a Persian name --
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3:15 - 3:17the "Middle East Peace Crisis."
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3:17 - 3:21So maybe me starting to take pictures was some kind of way
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3:21 - 3:25to bring both sides of my family together,
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3:25 - 3:29a way to take the worlds with me, a way to tell stories visually.
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3:30 - 3:32It all kind of started that way,
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3:32 - 3:35but I think that I really realized the power of the image
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3:35 - 3:39when I first went to the garbage-collecting village in Egypt,
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3:39 - 3:43when I was about 16. My mother took me there.
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3:44 - 3:46She's somebody that believes strongly in community service
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3:46 - 3:48and decided that this was something that I needed to do
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3:48 - 3:53and so I went there and I met some amazing women there.
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3:53 - 3:56There was a center there
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3:56 - 3:58where they were teaching people how to read and write
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3:59 - 4:01and get vaccinations against the many diseases
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4:01 - 4:03you can get from sorting through garbage.
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4:03 - 4:05And I began to start teaching there.
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4:05 - 4:08I taught English, and I met some incredible women there.
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4:08 - 4:13I met people that live seven people to a room,
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4:13 - 4:15barely can afford their evening meal,
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4:15 - 4:18yet live with this strength of spirit and sense of humor
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4:18 - 4:21and just incredible qualities.
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4:21 - 4:25I got drawn into this community and I began to take pictures there.
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4:25 - 4:32I took pictures of weddings and older family members,
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4:32 - 4:34things that they wanted memories of.
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4:35 - 4:38About two years after I started taking these pictures,
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4:39 - 4:43the UN Conference on Population and Development
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4:43 - 4:46asked me to show them at the conference.
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4:46 - 4:49So I was 18; I was very excited.
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4:49 - 4:54It was my first exhibit of photographs and they were all put up there,
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4:54 - 5:00and after about two days, they all came down except for three.
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5:00 - 5:03People were very upset, very angry
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5:03 - 5:06that I was showing these dirty sides of Cairo,
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5:06 - 5:10and why didn't I cut the dead donkey out of the frame?
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5:10 - 5:12And as I sat there, I got very depressed.
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5:12 - 5:16I looked at this big empty wall with
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5:16 - 5:18three lonely photographs that were, you know,
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5:18 - 5:24very pretty photographs and I was like, I failed at this.
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5:24 - 5:30But I was looking at this intense emotion and intense feeling
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5:30 - 5:33that had come out of people just seeing these photographs.
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5:33 - 5:36I mean, here I was, this 18-year-old pipsqueak that nobody listened to,
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5:36 - 5:39and all of a sudden I put these photographs on the wall
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5:39 - 5:41and there were arguments, and they had to be taken down.
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5:41 - 5:43And I just saw the power of the image.
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5:43 - 5:45And it was incredible.
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5:45 - 5:48And I think the most important reaction that I saw there
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5:48 - 5:51was actually people that would never have gone to the garbage village themselves,
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5:51 - 5:55that would never have seen that the human spirit could thrive
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5:55 - 5:57in such difficult circumstances.
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5:57 - 5:59And I think it was at that point that I decided
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5:59 - 6:03that I wanted to use photography and film
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6:03 - 6:08to somehow bridge gaps, to bridge cultures, bring people together, cross borders.
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6:08 - 6:14And so that's what really kind of started me off.
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6:14 - 6:18Did a stint at MTV, made a film called "Startup.com,"
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6:18 - 6:22and I've done a couple of music films --
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6:22 - 6:26but in 2003, when the war in Iraq was about to start,
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6:26 - 6:32it was a very surreal feeling for me
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6:32 - 6:36because before the war started, there was kind of this media war that was going on.
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6:36 - 6:38And I was watching television in New York
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6:38 - 6:40and there seemed to be just one point of view
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6:40 - 6:43that was coming across, and
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6:43 - 6:48the coverage went from the U.S. State Department to embedded troops
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6:48 - 6:52and what was coming across on the news
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6:52 - 6:56was that there was going to be this clean war and precision bombings,
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6:56 - 7:00and the Iraqis would be greeting the Americans as liberators
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7:00 - 7:03and throwing flowers at their feet in the streets of Baghdad.
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7:03 - 7:05And I knew that there was a completely other story
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7:05 - 7:09that was taking place in the Middle East where my parents were.
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7:09 - 7:12I knew that there was a completely other story being told,
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7:12 - 7:15and I was thinking, how are people supposed to communicate
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7:15 - 7:17with each other when they're getting completely different messages
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7:17 - 7:20and nobody knows what the other's being told?
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7:20 - 7:23How are people supposed to have any kind of common understanding
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7:23 - 7:26or know how to move together into the future?
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7:26 - 7:28So I knew that I had to go there.
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7:28 - 7:30I just wanted to be in the center.
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7:30 - 7:33I had no plan. I had no funding.
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7:33 - 7:35I didn't even have a camera at the time.
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7:35 - 7:37I had somebody bring it there
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7:37 - 7:40because I wanted to get access to Al Jazeera,
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7:40 - 7:42George Bush's favorite channel
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7:42 - 7:45and a place which I was very curious about because
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7:45 - 7:49it's disliked by many governments across the Arab world
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7:49 - 7:53and also called the mouthpiece of Osama Bin Laden
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7:53 - 7:55by some people in the U.S. government.
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7:55 - 7:59So I was thinking, you know, this station that's hated
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7:59 - 8:01by so many people has to be doing something right.
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8:01 - 8:05I've got to go see what this is all about.
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8:05 - 8:07And I also wanted to go see Central Command,
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8:07 - 8:09which was 10 minutes away, and that way
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8:09 - 8:13I could get access to how this news was being created
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8:14 - 8:16on the Arab side reaching the Arab world,
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8:16 - 8:19and on the U.S. and Western side reaching the U.S.
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8:19 - 8:21And when I went there and sat there,
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8:21 - 8:24and met these people that were in the center of it
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8:24 - 8:27and sat with these characters,
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8:27 - 8:31I met some surprising, very complex people.
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8:31 - 8:36And I'd like to share with you a little bit of that experience
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8:36 - 8:39of when you sit with somebody and you film them, and you listen to them,
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8:39 - 8:42and you allow them more than a five-second sound bite,
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8:43 - 8:48the amazing complexity of people emerge.
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8:51 - 8:54Sameer Khader: Business as usual.
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8:54 - 8:58Iraq, and then Iraq, and then Iraq.
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8:59 - 9:06But between us, if I'm offered a job with Fox, I'll take it.
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9:10 - 9:16To change the Arab nightmare into the American dream.
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9:19 - 9:22I still have that dream.
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9:22 - 9:26Maybe I will never be able to do it.
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9:26 - 9:30But I have plans for my children.
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9:30 - 9:33When they finish their high school I will send them to America to study there.
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9:33 - 9:36I will pay for their study.
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9:36 - 9:39And they will stay there.
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9:45 - 9:49Josh Rushing: The night they showed the POWs and the dead soldiers --
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9:49 - 9:51Al Jazeera showed them --
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9:51 - 9:53it was powerful because America doesn't show those kinds of images.
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9:53 - 9:55Most of the news in America won't show really gory images
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9:55 - 9:59and this showed American soldiers in uniform strewn about a floor,
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9:59 - 10:01a cold tile floor.
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10:01 - 10:03And it was revolting.
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10:03 - 10:05It was absolutely revolting.
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10:05 - 10:07It made me sick to my stomach.
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10:07 - 10:09And then what hit me was, the night before,
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10:09 - 10:12there had been some kind of bombing in Basra,
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10:12 - 10:18and Al Jazeera had shown images of the people.
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10:18 - 10:22And they were equally if not more horrifying -- the images were.
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10:22 - 10:25And I remember having seen it in the Al Jazeera office
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10:25 - 10:28and thought to myself, "Wow, that's gross.
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10:28 - 10:31That's bad."
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10:31 - 10:34And then going away, and probably eating dinner or something.
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10:34 - 10:37And it didn't affect me as much.
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10:37 - 10:40So -- the impact it had on me, me realizing that
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10:40 - 10:42I just saw people on the other side,
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10:42 - 10:45and those people in the Al Jazeera office
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10:45 - 10:47must have felt the way I was feeling that night.
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10:47 - 10:50And it upset me on a profound level
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10:50 - 10:53that I wasn't bothered as much the night before.
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10:53 - 10:56It makes me hate war.
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10:56 - 10:59But it doesn't make me believe that we're in world that can live without war yet.
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10:59 - 11:02Jehane Noujaim: I was overwhelmed by the response of the film,
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11:02 - 11:05for we didn't know whether it would be able to get out there.
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11:05 - 11:06We had no funding for it.
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11:06 - 11:11We were incredibly lucky that it got picked up,
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11:11 - 11:15and when we showed the film in both the United States and the Arab world
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11:16 - 11:18we had such incredible reactions.
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11:18 - 11:21It was amazing to see how people were moved by this film.
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11:21 - 11:24In the Arab world -- and it's not really by the film;
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11:24 - 11:26it's by the characters.
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11:26 - 11:30I mean, Josh Rushing was this incredibly complex person
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11:30 - 11:32who was thinking about things.
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11:32 - 11:34And when I showed the film in the Middle East,
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11:34 - 11:37people wanted to meet Josh.
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11:37 - 11:40He kind of redefined us as an American population.
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11:40 - 11:45People started to, you know, ask me, where is this guy now?
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11:45 - 11:47Al Jazeera offered him a job.
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11:49 - 11:51And Sameer, on the other hand,
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11:51 - 11:55was also quite an interesting character for the Arab world to see,
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11:55 - 11:58because it brought out the complexities of this love/hate relationship
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11:58 - 12:01that the Arab world has with the West.
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12:01 - 12:06In the United States, I was blown away by the motivations,
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12:06 - 12:09the positive motivations of the American people
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12:09 - 12:11when they'd see this film.
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12:11 - 12:14You know, we're criticized abroad for
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12:14 - 12:16believing we're the saviors of the world in some way,
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12:16 - 12:19but the flip side of it is that actually,
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12:19 - 12:22when people do see what is happening abroad
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12:22 - 12:25and people's reactions to some of our policy abroad,
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12:25 - 12:27we feel this power that we need to --
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12:27 - 12:29we feel like we have to get the power to change things.
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12:29 - 12:31And I saw this with audiences.
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12:31 - 12:36This woman came up to me after the screening and said, "You know,
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12:36 - 12:38I know this is crazy. I saw the bombs being loaded on the planes;
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12:38 - 12:40I saw the military going out to war.
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12:40 - 12:43But you don't understand people's anger towards us
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12:43 - 12:47until you see the people in the hospitals and the victims of the war,
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12:47 - 12:49and how do we get out of this bubble?
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12:49 - 12:53How do we understand what the other person is thinking?"
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12:54 - 12:58Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world,
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12:58 - 13:00but I know that it starts -- I know the power of it --
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13:00 - 13:04I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.
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13:04 - 13:06Now, I'm not a philosopher,
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13:06 - 13:10so I feel like I shouldn't go into great depth on this but
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13:10 - 13:13let film speak for itself and take you to this other world.
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13:13 - 13:17Because I believe that film has the ability to take you across borders.
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13:17 - 13:21I'd like you to just sit back and experience for a couple of minutes
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13:21 - 13:23being taken into another world.
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13:23 - 13:26And these couple clips take you inside
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13:26 - 13:30of two of the most difficult conflicts that we are faced with today.
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13:39 - 13:43Man: As long as there is injustice, someone must make a sacrifice!
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13:43 - 13:45Woman: That's no sacrifice, that's revenge!
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13:45 - 13:51If you kill, there's no difference between victim and occupier.
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13:51 - 13:58Man: If we had airplanes, we wouldn't need martyrs, that's the difference.
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13:58 - 14:03Woman: The difference is that the Israeli military is still stronger.
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14:03 - 14:05Man: Then let us be equal in death.
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14:05 - 14:07We still have Paradise.
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14:07 - 14:11Woman: There is no Paradise! It only exists in your head!
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14:11 - 14:13Man: God forbid!
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14:13 - 14:15May God forgive you.
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14:15 - 14:18If you were not Abu Azzam's daughter ...
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14:20 - 14:23Anyway, I'd rather have Paradise in my head than live in this hell!
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14:23 - 14:25In this life, we're dead anyway.
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14:26 - 14:31One only chooses bitterness when the alternative is even bitterer.
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14:33 - 14:36Woman: And what about us? The ones who remain?
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14:36 - 14:38Will we win that way?
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14:39 - 14:44Don't you see what you're doing is destroying us?
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14:45 - 14:48And that you give Israel an alibi to carry on?
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14:48 - 14:51Man: So with no alibi, Israel will stop?
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14:51 - 14:55Woman: Perhaps. We have to turn it into a moral war.
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14:55 - 14:57Man: How, if Israel has no morals?
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14:58 - 15:00Woman: Be careful!
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15:16 - 15:19Tzvika: My wife Ayelet called me and said,
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15:19 - 15:22"There was a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv."
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15:22 - 15:25Ayelet: What do you know about the casualties?
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15:25 - 15:28We're looking for three girls.
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15:28 - 15:30Tzvika: We have no information.
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15:30 - 15:34Ayelet: One is wounded here, but we haven't heard from the other three.
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15:34 - 15:39Tzvika: I said, "OK, that's Bat-Chen, that's my daughter.
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15:39 - 15:40Are you sure she is dead?"
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15:40 - 15:42They said yes.
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15:50 - 15:53George: On that day, at around 6:30
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15:53 - 15:59I was driving with my wife and daughters to the supermarket.
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16:01 - 16:04When we got to here,
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16:04 - 16:10we saw three Israeli military jeeps parked on the side of the road.
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16:10 - 16:14When we passed by the first jeep,
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16:14 - 16:16they opened fire on us.
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16:17 - 16:21And my 12-year-old daughter Christine
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16:21 - 16:23was killed in the shooting.
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16:34 - 16:36I am the headmaster for all parts.
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16:36 - 16:39George: But there is a teacher that is in charge?
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16:39 - 16:42Tzvika: Yes, I have assistants.
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16:42 - 16:45I deal with children all the time.
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16:50 - 16:54George: At first, I thought it was a strange idea.
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16:54 - 16:58But after thinking logically about it,
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16:58 - 17:05I didn't find any reason why not to meet them
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17:05 - 17:09and let them know of our suffering.
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17:10 - 17:14George: There were many things that touched me.
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17:14 - 17:19We see that there are Palestinians who suffered a lot, who lost children,
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17:19 - 17:22and still believe in the peace process and in reconciliation.
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17:22 - 17:25If we who lost what is most precious can talk to each other,
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17:25 - 17:28and look forward to a better future,
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17:28 - 17:32then everyone else must do so, too.
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17:44 - 17:48Man: Song is something that we communicated with people
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17:48 - 17:52who otherwise would not have understood where we're coming from.
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17:52 - 17:55You could give them a long political speech
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17:55 - 17:58they would still not understand.
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17:58 - 18:01But I tell you, when you finish that song,
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18:01 - 18:03people will be like, "Damn, I know where you niggaz are coming from.
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18:03 - 18:05I know where you guys are coming from.
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18:05 - 18:07Death unto apartheid!"
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18:09 - 18:12Narrator: It's about the liberation struggle.
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18:12 - 18:14It's about those children who took to the streets,
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18:14 - 18:18fighting, screaming, "Free Nelson Mandela!"
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18:20 - 18:24It's about those unions who put down their tools
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18:24 - 18:27and demanded freedom.
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18:28 - 18:32Yes. Yes!
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18:34 - 18:36Freedom!
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18:41 - 18:44Jehane Noujaim: I think everybody's had that feeling of sitting in a theater,
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18:44 - 18:49in a dark room, with other strangers, watching a very powerful film,
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18:49 - 18:52and they felt that feeling of transformation.
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18:52 - 18:54And
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18:54 - 18:58what I'd like to talk about is how can we use that feeling
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18:58 - 19:01to actually create a movement through film?
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19:03 - 19:05I've been listening to the talks
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19:05 - 19:09in some of the conference, and Robert Wright said yesterday
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19:09 - 19:13that if we have an appreciation for another person's humanity,
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19:13 - 19:15then they will have an appreciation for ours.
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19:15 - 19:17And that's what this is about.
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19:17 - 19:20It's about connecting people through film,
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19:20 - 19:23getting these independent voices out there.
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19:23 - 19:28Now Josh Rushing actually ended up leaving the military
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19:28 - 19:30and taking a job with Al Jazeera,
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19:30 - 19:35so his feeling is that he's on Al Jazeera International because
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19:35 - 19:37he feels like he can actually use media
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19:38 - 19:41to bridge the gap between East and West.
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19:41 - 19:43And that's an amazing thing.
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19:43 - 19:46But I've been trying to think about ways
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19:46 - 19:49to give power to these independent voices,
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19:49 - 19:51to give power to the filmmakers,
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19:51 - 19:55to give power to people who are trying to use film for change.
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19:55 - 19:57And there are incredible organizations
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19:57 - 19:59that are out there doing this already.
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19:59 - 20:02There's Witness, that you heard from earlier.
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20:02 - 20:05There's Just Vision, that are working with Palestinians and Israelis
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20:05 - 20:09who are working together for peace, and documenting that process
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20:09 - 20:11and getting interviews out there and using this film
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20:11 - 20:14to take to Congress to show that it's a powerful tool
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20:14 - 20:19to show that this is a woman who's had her daughter killed in an attack,
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20:19 - 20:22and she believes that there are peaceful ways to solve this.
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20:22 - 20:26There's Working Films and there's Current TV,
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20:26 - 20:29which is an incredible platform for people around the world
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20:29 - 20:33to be able to put their -- yes, it's amazing.
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20:33 - 20:36I watched it and I'm just -- I'm blown away by it
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20:36 - 20:40and its potential to bring voices from around the world,
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20:40 - 20:42independent voices from around the world,
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20:42 - 20:45and create a truly democratic, global television.
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20:45 - 20:49So what can we do to create a platform for these organizations,
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20:49 - 20:51to create some momentum,
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20:51 - 20:55to get everybody in the world involved in this movement?
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20:56 - 21:03I'd like for us to imagine for a second -- imagine a day
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21:04 - 21:08when you have everyone coming together from around the world.
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21:08 - 21:18You have towns and villages and theaters all from around the world
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21:18 - 21:21getting together, and sitting in the dark,
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21:21 - 21:25and sharing a communal experience of watching a film,
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21:25 - 21:28or a couple of films, together.
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21:29 - 21:31Watching a film which maybe highlights
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21:31 - 21:35a character that is fighting to live, or just
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21:35 - 21:37a character that defies stereotypes,
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21:37 - 21:40makes a joke, sings a song.
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21:40 - 21:42Comedies, documentaries, shorts.
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21:42 - 21:45This amazing power can be used to change people
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21:45 - 21:47and to bond people together, to cross borders
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21:47 - 21:51and have people feel like they're having a communal experience.
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21:51 - 21:54So if you imagine this day when all around the world
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21:54 - 21:59you have theaters from around the world and places where we project films.
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21:59 - 22:01If you imagine from --
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22:01 - 22:06projecting from Times Square to Tahir Square in Cairo,
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22:06 - 22:10the same film in Ramallah, the same film in Jerusalem.
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22:10 - 22:13You know, we've been talking to a friend of mine
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22:13 - 22:15about using the side of the Great Pyramid
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22:15 - 22:17and the Great Wall of China.
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22:18 - 22:23It's endless what you can imagine,
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22:23 - 22:25in terms of where you can project films
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22:25 - 22:28and where you can have this communal experience.
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22:28 - 22:31And I believe that this one day, if we can create it,
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22:31 - 22:35this one day can create momentum for all of these independent voices.
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22:35 - 22:37There
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22:37 - 22:39isn't an organization which is connecting
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22:39 - 22:42the independent voices of the world to get out there,
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22:42 - 22:44and yet I'm hearing throughout this conference
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22:44 - 22:48that the biggest danger in our future is [lack of] understanding the other
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22:48 - 22:52and having mutual respect for the other and crossing borders.
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22:52 - 22:54And if film can do that,
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22:54 - 22:57and if we can get all of these different locations in the world
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22:57 - 23:02to watch these films together, this could be an incredible day.
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23:02 - 23:07So we've already made a partnership actually, set up through
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23:07 - 23:09somebody from the TED community,
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23:09 - 23:11John Camen, introduced me to
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23:11 - 23:15Steven Apkon, from the Jacob Burns Film Center.
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23:15 - 23:17And we started calling up everybody.
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23:17 - 23:22And in the last week, there have been so many people that have responded to us
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23:22 - 23:27from as close as Palo Alto to Mongolia and to India.
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23:27 - 23:31There are people that want to be a part of this global day of film,
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23:31 - 23:35to be able to provide a platform for independent voices
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23:35 - 23:37and independent films to get out there.
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23:39 - 23:42Now, we've thought about a name for this day
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23:43 - 23:45and I'd like to share this with you.
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23:45 - 23:47Now, the most amazing part of this whole process
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23:47 - 23:50has been sharing ideas and wishes,
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23:50 - 23:54and so I invite you to give brainstorms onto
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23:54 - 23:57how does this day echo into the future?
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23:57 - 24:02How do we use technology to make this day echo into the future,
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24:02 - 24:04so that we can build community
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24:04 - 24:08and have these communities working together, through the Internet?
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24:09 - 24:11There was a time, many, many years ago,
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24:11 - 24:14when all of the continents were stuck together.
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24:15 - 24:18And we called that landmass Pangea.
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24:18 - 24:23So what we'd like to call this day of film is Pangea Cinema Day.
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24:23 - 24:25And if you just imagine
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24:25 - 24:28that all of these people in these towns would be watching,
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24:28 - 24:32then I think that we can actually really make a movement
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24:32 - 24:35towards people understanding each other better.
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24:35 - 24:38I know that it's very intangible, touching people's hearts and souls,
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24:39 - 24:41but the only way that I know how to do it,
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24:41 - 24:43the only way that I know how to reach out
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24:43 - 24:48to somebody's heart and soul all across the world is by showing them a film.
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24:48 - 24:51And I know that there are independent filmmakers and films out there
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24:51 - 24:53that can really make this happen.
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24:53 - 24:55And that's my wish.
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24:55 - 25:00So I guess I'm supposed to give you my one-sentence wish,
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25:00 - 25:03but we're way out of time.
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25:03 - 25:05Chris Anderson: That is an incredible wish.
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25:05 - 25:08Pangea Cinema -- the day the world comes together.
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25:08 - 25:11JN: It's more tangible than world peace, and it's certainly more immediate.
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25:11 - 25:17But it would be the day that the world comes together through film,
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25:17 - 25:19the power of film.
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25:19 - 25:21CA: Ladies and gentlemen, Jehane Noujaim.
- Title:
- My wish: A global day of film
- Speaker:
- Jehane Noujaim
- Description:
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In this hopeful talk, Jehane Noujaim unveils her 2006 TED Prize wish: to bring the world together for one day a year through the power of film.
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- closed TED
- Project:
- TEDTalks
- Duration:
- 25:21
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Antonio Martinez
Great job.
Brian Greene
The English transcript was updated on October 2, 2015.