V-me to broadcast Pangea Day Event.

V-me, America’s fastest-growing Spanish network, will join a network of global broadcasters connecting live events from Cairo, London, Los Angeles, Kigali, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro for the Pangea Day event on May 10. Pangea Day is a live 4-hour global event bringing the world together through powerful films, visionary speakers, and uplifting music.

On May 10 from 2:00pm to 6:00pm (et/pt) V-me will carry Pangea Day into 40 million homes, including nearly half of all U.S. Hispanic TV homes. V-me is the only Spanish broadcaster in the U.S. to present this live event.

The 24 short films to be featured have been selected from an international competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from more than 100 countries. At least five of the scheduled films come from Latin American, U.S. Hispanic, Spanish or Portuguese directors, representing fiction, non-fiction, and animation. Each presents a compelling universal story that makes viewers laugh, cry, pause and think.

The program also includes a number of exceptional presenters and musical performers including Queen Noor of Jordan, Christiane Amanpour, Bob Geldof and Iranian rock phenom Hypernova. V-me will present the films with Spanish subtitles, while providing simultaneous translations of presenters and speakers.

V-me joins global broadcasters including BSkyB (UK), Star TV (Asia), Globosat (Brazil), OnceTV (Mex), Canal+/Planete (France) in presenting Pangea Day to a global audience expected to reach more than 500 million viewers via traditional broadcasts, free-to-air feeds, and web-based and mobile phone platforms.

Many of the films and performances seen on Pangea Day will be available on the Web alongside open forums for discussion and ideas for how to take social action. Pangea Day was created by award-winning documentary filmmaker, Jehane Noujaim in collaboration with the TED conference.