Humanity and technology fuse in global film event

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

CULVER CITY, California (AFP) — Humanity and digital technology broke down cultural walls on Saturday during the first-ever global film festival, dubbed Pangea Day, which sought to replace conflict with understanding.

Millions of people at venues around the world simultaneously watched a live four-hour broadcast of short independent films, some made by refugees using camera-enabled Nokia mobile telephones, showing life through their eyes.

Films streamed via the Internet to computers, televisions and video-enabled mobile devices were interlaced with insights or performances by celebrities, royalty, musicians, scientists and humanitarians.

"Modern technologies are connecting us over incredible distances," Queen Noor of Jordan said while taking part in a...

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