About the Show

During the 1990s, age-old racial and religious hatred resulted in rape, ethnic cleansing and mass killings in the Balkans. While the world watched in horror, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (created by the United Nations) was labelled ineffective.

Then came the arrival of Canadian Louise Arbour, now the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. This gripping movie recounts the innovative and brave methods that Arbour ( Wendy Crewson) devised as Chief Prosecutor of the International War Crimes Tribunal to finally prosecute those responsible, even when it meant taking on Milosevic - which resulted in the first time in history a sitting president was indicted.

Arbour investigated rape camps, witnessed the aftermath of ethnic cleansing and saw first hand, the displacement of two million citizens. With the help of her legal team and translator, she summoned all her legal cunning issuing secret indictments, thwarting bureaucracy and sidestepping NATO along the way, to make strategic and historic arrests.

Hunt for Justice: The Louise Arbour Story stars Wendy Crewson (The Man Who Lost Himself, 24), who offers an award-winning, brilliant portrayal as Louise Arbour; one that recently garnered Crewson the Gold Prize for Best Actress in fiction at the prestigious FIPA (Festival international des programmes audio-visuels) awards in Biarritz, France.

Crewson is joined by a stellar cast including John Corbett (Sex and the City, My Big Fat Greek Wedding); William Hurt, (Syriana, A History of Violence), Michael Murphy (Mayday, X-Men 3), Leslie Hope (Commander in Chief, 24), Heino Ferch (Run Lola Run) and Stipe Erceg (The Educators).

The movie is directed by acclaimed Quebec director Charles Binamé (Maurice Richard), whose film Séraphin: Un Homme et son Péché (Heart of Stone) is the highest grossing Canadian film of the last 20 years.