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Journalism of Courage
Rachel Weisz,
the actress,says,terrible injustices are happening all the time,but only some of them make it to the screen. The few that make it to theatres often have a single individual at their centre like Erin Brockovich or a pair,like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein,ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Add Kathryn Bolkovac,an American police officer,to that list,portrayed by Weisz in her new film,The Whistleblower,that follows Bolkovacs real-life assignment as a UN peacekeeper in Bosnia in the 1990s that exposed her to a world of international workers complicit in and in many cases fostering the international trade of young women for sex. Bolkovacs investigation led to her firing.
Mike Medavoy,
the movie producer who as producer or executive has been involved with films as complicated as Black Swan,is now working on a film project that will test his skills as a moviemaker. The film is about the Copiapó mining accident,in which 33 Chilean miners were trapped deep underground for 69 days last year,finally to emerge alive. Medavoy has acquired rights from the miners,who jointly sold their story in a deal brokered by William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. He will also have rights to a book thats being written about the incident by Héctor Tobar,and is commissioning a script by Jose Rivera,whose screenplay for The Motorcycle Diaries was nominated in 2005 for an Oscar.
Big Sean,
the 23-year-old Detroit rapper,titled his debut album Finally Famous for a reason. Its how hes feeling these days. He has built a solid buzz for his music,thanks to the patronage of Kanye West,who signed Big Sean to his music label in 2007,and to three well-received mix tapes hes released in the past four years. His first singleMy Last,featuring Chris Brown hit No.1 on the US Rap songs chart. His videos have received more than 12 million views on YouTube,and he has been tagged as a Next To Blow artist by Hip Hop Weekly. Im feeling pretty good. Im excited the album is finally coming out,excited that my career is only going to keep growing and growing and growing, he says.
