The Team Behind “New York, I Love You”

“New York, I Love You” represents the brand new project of the producer Emmanuel Benhiby, who realized “Paris, Je t’aime” too. The producer invited many important filmmakers to direct the upcoming movie.
The team will be composed from Zach Braff, Park Chan-wook, Fatih Akin, Mira Nair, Wang Xiaoshuai, Albert and Allen Hughes, Yvan Attal, Emanuele Crialese and Andrey Zvyagintsev. With such strong team of important filmmaker one should not be surprised by the film’s budget, which is about $14 million.
Benhiby said he would like to surprise the public with these young, hip directors, who have their own personal new style and movie language. He also said that three other directors will be added to the lineup. Each of them is to create a five-minute segment about a love encounter.
Then the 13th still un-chosen director will have to realize a series of transition sequences for making the film more fluid than “Paris, Je T’aime” was. The movie is expected to be about 100 minutes long. Emmanuel Benihiby said that “the idea is to give the impression of a community of directors.”
The movie will be shot almost exclusively in English. “We’ll try to be as representative of the city as possible, that’s the idea.” said the producer, who is now making future plans for another film, “China, I Love You”.
These films are all part of “The Cities of Love” concept, which is a concept about people, without having anything to do with politics.

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