On a Saturday in May 2008, over a span of four hours, twenty-four short films made "by the world, for the world" were broadcast on television and transmitted over the internet and to cell phones everywhere. They called it Pangea Day. "In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference and conflict," the event's creators explained, "it's easy to lose sight of what we have in common." Citizens around the globe tuned in, watched, and recognized.