Rachel Weisz has found herself not in hot water, but in friendly pool of young and talented female producers and will be lead by helmer Larysa Kondracki in The Whistleblower. Variety reports that the actress will be toplining the directorial debut for a shoot in Hungary sometime this summer.
Based on the screenplay Kondracki and Ellis Kirwin, this is a true story of Kathryn Bolkovac, who traveled to Bosnia in 1999 as a U.N. Peacekeeper. Whistleblower chronicles the trials of a female cop from Nebraska who serves as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and exposes a United Nations cover-up of a sex trafficking scandal. The project was included among the tale end of the inaugural Black List of 2005. The writing pair also have The Vanished with Hany Abu-Assad attached to direct.
Recent Sundance attendees Primary Prods.’ Amy Kaufman, First Generation’s Christina Piovesan and Plum Pictures’ Celine Rattray will be producing the project. HBO Films has the distribution rights.
