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Jehane Noujaim 's first feature documentary was Startup .com with Chris Hegedus . She spoke to us about making Control Room and her experience of Al-Jazeera. (www.bbc.co.uk....jaim.shtml)
Jehane Noujaim : Definitely. I'd watched different news organisations covering the same event in the States and in Egypt, but often coming up with very different stories. I grew up in Egypt at a time when the news was very much state-controlled, and you didn't hear much government criticism, so when Al-Jazeera was launched in 1996 it was playing in every coffee shop in Cairo. I was excited to see that this channel had become so popular, didn't seem to have any kind of taboos, was really investigative and had debate shows about issues that nobody talked about in public. It shook things up in a way that I think was very good. (www.bbc.co.uk....jaim.shtml)
When documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim won a TED Prize in 2006, her wish was nothing if not ambitious. She wished for world peace. To translate that noble goal into a practical program, Pangea Day was founded. The goal of Pangea . Continue (www.portfolio.com....spottings/)
"Control Room" â Jehane Noujaim 's documentary on the Arab news network Al Jazeera. Currently playing in New York . Opens in Los Angeles Friday; will roll out to an estimated 200 screens nationwide this summer . (rashomon.blogspot.com....chive.html)
Jehane Noujaim (the documentary filmmaker of Control Room) and TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) are asking professional and amateur filmmakers to submit their work for Pangea Day a global film event showcasing short films from around the world. How to produce and submit your short film: Pangea Day films are meant to be visual stories, ones that can be understood despite language barriers, and therefore should not rely on dialogue. If dialogue is required, Pangea Day organizers are asking that videos have English subtitles so that all films can be translated. In order to show as many videos as possible, submissions must be 5 minutes or less. Filmmakers with submissions should upload their films at http://www.youtube.com/group/pangeaday and register their film at www.pangeaday.org. A panel of jurors, led by Noujaim and other renowned members of the film community, will review all submissions and select the winning films to be screened on Pangea Day. Link. (www.boingboing.net....ed-fo.html)
Substance From Sundance While Paris Hilton sings karaoke at Park City bars and Ashton Kutcher rides the ski lift with Demi Moore to plug his first dramatic role in " The Butterfly Efflect ," numerous films of substance are making their mark. More documentaries than ever are screening at this year's indie fest, including several highly political works. Alison Maclean ("Jesus' Son") and Tobias Perse's " Persons of Interest " investigates the persecution of Muslim-Americans in the wake of 9/11. Ivy Meeropol 's " Heir to an Execution " chronicles her effort to come to terms with the lives and deaths of her grand parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini's "Farmingville" looks at immigration, and Jehane Noujaim 's " Control Room " examines media coverage of the war in Iraq. There are also dramas that feel like documentaries, including Debra Granik's stark feature film "Down to the Bone," the story of a mother's battle with drug addiction. (worldfilm.about.com....004_01.htm)
Morse eventually moved on to a notable career in information technology and management consulting. After leaving academia, she joined a start-up company in 1976 called American Management Systems with some 100 employees. She stayed there until 1999, serving as vice president of the organization she helped build into a publicly traded, billion-dollar company which works with leading organizations in the private and public sector. She also served as the Chief Executive Officer at govWorks, Inc., the subject of the acclaimed documentary of the dot-com era, Startup .com directed by Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim . (www.earthtimes.org....v18_02.htm)
Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim —whose documentary, Control Room , showed stark differences in how the Arab and the Western media portrayed the Iraq War—wished to bring the world together for one day through the power of film. The TED community donated $1 million and built a website, resulting in Pangea Day, which will be May 10 this year and will feature films shown live around the world as well as on TV and the Web. (www.portfolio.com....ze-Winners)
Pangea Day offers the opportunity for filmmakers to share their short format works with a global audience through a live four-hour television and internet program of films, music and speakers. This global multi-media event will commence on May 10, 2008 in an effort to use the power of film to the world closer together. The project was conceived by filmmaker, Jehane Noujaim (Startup .com, Control Room) after winning one of the prestigious TED Awards, granting her one sweeping wish to change the world. (nationalgeograp..../allroads/)
Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim , best known for her films Control Room (2004) and Startup .com (2001), is putting together a world day of movies and peace which she calls Pangea Day. She won the coveted TED Prize which galvanized her dream, and now she's wondering if the Netflix Community can help her find movies (or scenes in movies) that uniquely capture the spirit of world peace or human experience. In her words: "If you had the entire world's attention for only a few minutes, what short film or scene would you show everyone? Movies have such a remarkable way to capture the commonality in us all, sometimes so little can be so inspiring. What would you show?" (blog.netflix.com/)
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