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Whistleblower, The

Scene from "The Whistleblower" (photo © Andrei Alexandru)
Kathy Bolkovac is a Nebraskan police officer and mother who, in 1999, goes out on a limb to work for the United Nations as a monitor in post-war Bosnia. But her expectations of helping rebuild a devastated country are dashed when she unveils a reality involving international complicity in sex trafficking, corruption, and cover-up. Kathy is a fish-out-of-water in the confusing world of UN contingents, private contractors, and diplomatic doubletalk, but now she must choose whether to turn against the institution she so passionately believed in, and risk all to protect the innocent. Based on a true story.
Larysa Kondracki is a Canadian-born Ukrainian and studied Directing at Columbia University. She also directed the evocative short Viko and completed with her writing partner Eilis Kirwan the screenplay for Burning Rainbow Farm and is currently adapting the graphic novel Supermarket for director Justin Lin. For The Whistleblower she spent two years researching the topic of sex-trafficking.
Genre Thriller
Year of Production 2010
Director Larysa Kondracki
Screenplay Larysa Kondracki
Director of Photography Keiran McGuigan
Editor Julian Clarke
Music by Michael Danna
Production Design Caroline Foellmer
Cast Nicolaj Lie Kaas, David Strathairn, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci
Producers Christina Piovesan, Amy Kaufmann, Celine Rattray, Wolfgang Müller, Benito Müller
Production Companies Barry Films/Berlin, First Generation Films/Toronto
Length 95 min
Format 35 mm, color
Original Version English
Sound Technology Dolby
Festivals Toronto 2010, San Francisco 2011, Haugesund 2011
World Sales
Voltage Pictures
6360 Deep Dell Place
Los Angeles, CA 90068/USA
fax +1-323-464 8362
sales@voltagepictures.com
http://www.voltagepictures.com
Year of Production 2010
Director Larysa Kondracki
Screenplay Larysa Kondracki
Director of Photography Keiran McGuigan
Editor Julian Clarke
Music by Michael Danna
Production Design Caroline Foellmer
Cast Nicolaj Lie Kaas, David Strathairn, Vanessa Redgrave, Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci
Producers Christina Piovesan, Amy Kaufmann, Celine Rattray, Wolfgang Müller, Benito Müller
Production Companies Barry Films/Berlin, First Generation Films/Toronto
Length 95 min
Format 35 mm, color
Original Version English
Sound Technology Dolby
Festivals Toronto 2010, San Francisco 2011, Haugesund 2011
World Sales
Voltage Pictures
6360 Deep Dell Place
Los Angeles, CA 90068/USA
fax +1-323-464 8362
sales@voltagepictures.com
http://www.voltagepictures.com


