On Saturday (May 10), as part of Pangea Day, four hours of short films will play simultaneously in thousands of locations around the world as the result of a wish.

The world’s brightest minds converge annually in California to exchange ideas at the Technology Entertainment Design conference. At the end of the event, three attendees are awarded $100,000 and a wish. In February 2006, filmmaker Jehane Noujaim (Control Room ) won. Her wish? To unite the world through film.

Noujaim told the Straight from New York City, “This is a project that is aimed at awareness, at people seeing the world through different perspectives, for people realizing that we are all interconnected and that what we are doing on one side of the world is affecting people on the other side of the world.”

Pangea Day seeks to reduce xenophobia and promote communication, Noujaim said.

The 24 films included in Pangea Day were selected from among more than 2,500 submissions from over 100 countries. You can watch Pangea Day on Citytv, the Internet, or your cellphone, or at one of 14 locations in Vancouver. Visit pangeaday.org for details.

Jehane Noujaim's 2006 TED acceptance speech: