Expanded Broadcast Reach for Pangea Day

LOS ANGELES, May 9: Pangea
Day, a four-hour global event created by documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, will be broadcast on TV in 150 countries, as well
as via a live webcast and on mobile phones, this Saturday, May 10.

YouTube has now signed on
for the event. By 4:30 p.m. tomorrow, 12 Pangea Day short films will be
showcased on the video-sharing website’s homepage: The Ball, Combatants, Cuba, Dancing
Queen, Elevator Music, Encounter Point, I'll Wait for the Next One, I Remember Lebanon, Meninos, Refugee All Stars, Roadworks and The Slap. YouTube is also hosting the official Pangea Day YouTube group, which
will act as a centralized hub for people to share their experiences and
comments about the live events and films.

Pangea Day will be
broadcast live from Los Angeles, London, Kigali, Rio de Janeiro, Cairo and
Mumbai to networks across the globe. Broadcasters include CNN International,
which will feature highlights only; Rwanda TV, Tanzania Broadcasting
Corporation, Star World and Magic World (M-Net) in Africa; Star World, Metro
TV, DigiTurk IZ TV and MediaCorp Singapore in Asia; NZTV/TVNZ 6 in
Australia/Oceania; Canal+/Planete, DigiTurk IZ TV, Sky Movies Indie Channel,
LTV2, Current TV and YKS Italy throughout Europe; Star World in the Middle
East; KW Networks, V-Me, OnceTV, Citytv Canada and Current TV in North America;
and MGM Networks Latin America, Multishow (Globosat) and Citytv Colombia
throughout South America.

The program will be
subtitled in seven languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Hindi,
Portuguese and Spanish, and will be available through multiple forms of media,
including video-enabled mobile phones.

MSN International will
stream the live four-hour program in 23 of its markets: Austria, Switzerland,
Germany, Arabia, Australia, Canada, the U.K., Indonesia, Ireland, India,
Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Latin
America, Mexico, Belgium, Switzerland, France and Brazil. The live webcast will
also be streamed on PangeaDay.org.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski