U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon traveled to Hollywood last year to cajole filmmakers and movie stars into making pictures that portray the U.N.'s good works. The Whistleblower, a scathing full-length account of the U.N. peacekeeping effort in Bosnia during the late 1990s, is not what he had in mind. The Samuel Goldwyn Films movie, which is due out in theaters in Los Angeles and New York on Aug. 5, stars British actress Rachel Weisz as a U.N. policewoman who stumbles into the sordid … [Read more...]
The Whistleblower: The movie the U.N. would prefer you didn’t see
December 4, 2012 by Team Celebration
Filed Under: FEATURED, INSPIRATIONAL VIDEO, Videos Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, Balkan sex trafficking, Bosnia, DynCorp, film, Hollywood, International Migration Organization, MEDIA, Monica Bellucci, movies, movies about women, Rachel Weisz, Romanian peacekeepers, sex trafficking, sexual slavery in post-civil war Bosnia, State Department in Afghanistan, State Department in Iraq, The 'Whistleblower', the cultured and stylish official, The Samuel Goldwyn Films movie, Turtle Bay, U.N. bureaucrats, UN, Vanessa Redgrave, Washington Post, women in film, women taking action, women.
