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May 12th, 2008

PangeaDay: an event lived worldwide

Juliana Rincón Parra · 04:14

lingua → mk · sq · de

Pangea Day took place Saturday, and people from different parts of the world got together to watch movies and be a part of the worldwide event where movies, speakers and music showed us a bit of life on the other side of the globe, uniting people from all walks of life to believe that we aren't as different as we would believe. It also included a mobile video contest, with an international lineup of winners. 3 comments · »»

Saudi Arabia: Why Are There No Cinemas?

Amira Al Hussaini · 04:01

lingua → bn · mg · ar

"Why are there no cinemas in Saudi Arabia?" asks Saudi blogger Hayfa [Ar], who offers us her ideas of a workable plan to make cineplexes and movie screenings compliant with her country's traditional and religious outlook. 4 comments · »»

May 11th, 2008

PangeaDay: Impressions from Brazil

Paula Góes · 13:45

lingua → pt

Pangea day took place this Saturday, May 10 2008, and the world watched together a selection of films broadcast via the internet and TV simultaneously to every corner of the planet and with live broadcast in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro. See here a comprehensive wrap up: PangeaDay as seen by a Brazilian blogger. 3 comments · »»

April 26th, 2008

PangeaDay: Videos to change the world on May 10th

Juliana Rincón Parra · 13:26

lingua → de · mk · pt · sq · bn · jp · es

On May 10th 2008 at 18:00 GMT, 24 films will be broadcast during a 4 hour event. What makes this different is that this event, PangeaDay will be broadcast from six locations worldwide in seven different languages worldwide to be viewed through internet, television or cellphones with one unique purpose: to make each other know about the lives of others and focus on what makes us similar, instead of what makes us different and let us work together towards peace. 6 comments · »»

April 14th, 2008

Vlog International: collaboration across borders

Juliana Rincón Parra · 06:53

lingua → mk · sq · pt · zht · zhs · es · de

Vlog International is a project bringing together Spanish speaking vloggers: people submit their ideas, one is chosen and everyone records their piece, someone edits them together and they are published on their site. They began in 2006, when a group of friends got together to do a video homage for ... 5 comments · »»

April 11th, 2008

Iranian bloggers write letters to Christ

Hamid Tehrani · 20:35

lingua → mk · pt · sq · es · zht · zhs

It may seem surreal, but several Muslim bloggers have written letters to Jesus Christ in their blogs complaining about Western insults against Muslims, and particularly Dutch MP Geert Wilders' anti-Islamic film, Fitna. Meanwhile, young Islamist Basij paramilitaries demonstrated in front of the Netherlands embassy in Tehran condemning Wilders' film. Kosoof, ... 6 comments · »»

April 9th, 2008

Video on Flickr: An apple of dischord

Juliana Rincón Parra · 23:13

lingua → mk · hi

Seventeen hours after its creation, the Flickr group "NO VIDEO ON FLICKR!!!" already has more than 5475 members and 670 items. What is even more amazing is that another group, "We Say NO to Videos on Flickr", created 2 hours later, has more than double the number of members of the previously mentioned group, and both are composed of flickr users who oppose the idea of having video on the platform traditionally used for uploading pictures. On the other hand, the groups created for uploaded videos hardly have more than 30 members yet. What is the reason for this insatisfaction with Yahoo and Flickr's decision to make video uploading and viewing possible on their site? 6 comments · »»

April 6th, 2008

Argentina: high school students use online video to report their issues.

Juliana Rincón Parra · 19:31

lingua → mk · bn · sq · es · mg

By uploading a video on YouTube, argentinean high school students managed to get mass media's attention to their plight: the need for a building where they can receive classes. Currently the Ipem 112 “César Iñíguez Montenegro”, in Sebastián Elcano, a village to the north of the Cordoba capital in Argentina are receiving lessons at an elementary school. However, because the elementary school has double shifts, the high school students are forced to receive evening classes, as if it were a night school. 0 comments · »»

Links

May 14th, 2008

Leo Africanus wonders why there are not African films at the Cannes International Film Festival: “I may be missing something, but no African film or film with an African theme (including North Africa) made the official cut.”

May 13th, 2008

Lyndon of Scraps of Moscow posts two informative and insightful entries on the complex politics and other dimensions of May 9 in Russia - here and here.

Polandian visits the Liban Quarry and posts pictures: “In 1992 Steven Spielberg built a replica of the Nazi’s Płaszów Labor Camp for his movie Schindler’s List. The remains of this highly realistic set can still be seen today a short distance from the center of Krakow.” In the comments section, a note on Irena Sendler, who “saved more than twice as many Jews as Oskar Schindler.”

May 12th, 2008

AnTyx reviews two films that explain “the nature of Estonia's independence.”

May 11th, 2008

Uganda Imsoniac attended the Amakula Kampala Film Festival in Uganda: “Every personality documentary film should make you feel comfortable and engage you. The director should make you love or loathe the character – it doesn’t really matter what – and you should just feel justified to do so and comfortable with your decision. In the case of Retour à Gorée (2007) which was shown at the Amakula Kampala Film Festival yesterday, the director Pierre-Yves Borgeaud hit all the right notes.”

Scarlett Lion discusses African films: “But it seems that films about Africa rarely screen in Africa. And I've missed my chance to see this film, captured in Uganda, in Uganda. The film festival continues, and I'll have the chance to see some other mediocre hits like The Science of Sleep, and maybe another flick or two.”

Ricardo Jordão Magalhaes [pt] has a long and wonderful roundup of PangeaDay's the best moments. “Man, if you read my post all the way through, do your bit, band together, help people, help to put an end to the world's poverty, the indifference of those mediocre ones who live in this micro planet that floats on this immense universe.” For those who missed this unique event, all films are now available at the official website.

May 9th, 2008

Almost as good as Chocolate writes about the upcoming Pangea Day - a day devoted to films in different locations of the world.