Elias Arts Bolsters Pangea Day Filmmakers Contest

NEW YORK, January 9: Elias
Arts has joined forces with the Pangea Day organizers, opening up its extensive
music library to filmmakers around the world as they prepare their short-film
submissions for the one-day global event.

Elias Arts has announced
the creation and donation of a Pangea Day Music Library, open to Pangea Day
participants. In an effort to bolster filmmaker involvement on a global level,
the library will provide entrants complimentary access to hundreds of cinematic
music tracks created by famed composer Jonathan Elias and other Elias Arts’
in-house composers.

Pangea Day was created by
award-winning documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, in collaboration with the
TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Conference, to harness the power of
film to enhance global empathy, compassion and peace. Noujaim is challenging
aspiring filmmakers to tackle the question: “If you had the world’s attention
for five minutes, what story would you tell?”

In addition to opening a
Pangea Day Music Library, Elias Arts, along with hundreds of people around the
world, will be hosting screenings in both its New York City and Los Angeles
offices of 30 to 40 of the Pangea Day film entries with a four-hour program on
May 10. The program will be broadcast live via the Internet, television,
digital cinema and mobile phones.

“Powerful images and
themes deserve powerful music and sound to match, and we are honored to be able
to contribute our work to this important and worthy undertaking,” said Martin
Pazzani, the president and CEO of Elias Arts. “The work has been painstakingly
selected and organized to capture a myriad of emotions and life situations for
Pangea Day entrants, and we hope these filmmakers will find it useful and
inspirational in their work.”

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski