AN INVITATION:
Who: Local, National and World Leaders
What: A Dinner
When: September 11, 2003
Where: The Winter Garden, Overlooking Ground Zero, New York City
Why: To Discuss:

‘The Future of the West’

A Day in the Life of New York City

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Two Hour (Live and Pre-Recorded) Network Television Special now in Production

A Film by Richard Karz
Presented by Planet Group Entertainment International
The success of Richard Karz’s first Millennium Dinner Film: ‘If Women Ruled the World’ for PBS, has led to the development and pre-production of ‘The Future of the West’. Many of the world’s leaders will be in attendance at the UN General Assembly Meetings at the scheduled time and a number of them have confirmed their interest in being at the Dinner.

Guests will feature local, national and world leaders, intellectuals and celebrities, with gender and ethnic balance. The Dinner will take place at The Winter Garden overlooking Ground Zero.

The Chef for the Dinner will be Four-Star celebrity restaurateur, David Bouley.

Hosted by New York University President John Sexton, the guest list will be narrowed to approximately twenty. The list currently includes U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton; New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State; Spike Lee, filmmaker; Salman Rushdie, novelist; George Will, comemtator; Tony Blair, Prime Minister of England; Kofi Annan, General Secretary of the United Nations; King Abdullah, Jordan; Sergei Ivanov, Defense Minister Russia; Christiane Amanpour,CNN; Dina Dublon, CFO, JPMorgan Chase; Al Franken, comedian. Others to be announced include personalities and leaders from Western Europe, Asia and Latin America.

The format of the film features: 1.Conversation and discussion at the dinner captured by twenty cameras, picking up close-on comments among guests and moderator/hosted discussion and comment. 2. Mini-doc coverage of aspects of the lives of the guests related to their feelings related to September 11, 2001. 3. Short features presented throughout the course of the Dinner covering aspects of life in New York related to various communities in the City. i.e.: ‘Hell’s Kitchen-Culture Clash’…A NY cabbie shuttles Pete Hammil, journalist; Paul Auster, novelist and Nick Cohn, local historian around the area. Other short features cover Restaurant Row, Wall Street, Madison Avenue, NYU, Harlem, City Hall and Riker’s Island, all with on-camera comments from prominent New Yorkers.

For more information please contact patricknagle@pgeparis.com