by Mary Margaret Olohan, Daily Signal:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—”Sound of Freedom” star Jim Caviezel believes that his new film will empower people to fight human trafficking worldwide, and perhaps even bring forward some courageous whistleblowers afraid to speak up until now.
Caviezel and his co-actor Eduardo Verástegui, rumored to be pondering a presidential bid in Mexico, shared all this and more in a June interview with The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation studios in Washington, D.C.
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Both actors, who are Catholic and vocally pro-life, stressed the connections between sex trafficking and pornography, open borders, and abortion. They hope that the movie will shake viewers from apathy into action to aid victims of human trafficking across the globe.
“This movie has a power because it goes into your heart and it asks you a question,” Caviezel said. “When this is all done, what are you gonna do? You’re going to have to meet God at some point. And I believe it’s going to move a lot of whistleblowers to come forward.”
“That will bring an end to this whole thing,” he predicted.
Jim Caviezel: “I asked about the part where everyone was talking, and they all cried out, ‘Epstein Island.’ And I went oh, ok…Epstein Island isn’t the only sex island out there. And Tim Ballard takes down one in the film.”
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“Sound of Freedom” is based on the true story of former United States government agent Tim Ballard, founder of Operation Underground Railroad, a nonprofit that fights against child sex slavery. Ballard, who worked for the CIA and then the Department of Homeland Security, has worked undercover in many different countries to fight, infiltrate, and combat child trafficking organizations.
According to Angel Studios, which has the licensing rights to “Sound of Freedom,” the purpose of the film is to “put a spotlight on the global movement to end the trafficking of minors by successfully distributing this film to a worldwide audience.”
The film is crowd funded: “only with the help of the people” will it be a successful project, Verástegui said.
“We are against Goliath,” Verástegui told The Daily Signal. “We are like the little David against Goliath.”
The film will be in theaters on July Fourth, Independence Day. Both Verástegui and Caviezel stressed the importance of this date: As Americans celebrate freedom, many children are still enslaved by human traffickers.
The ticket sales are “growing and growing and growing,” Verástegui said.
“We’re outselling ‘Indiana Jones’ right now by 25%,” Caviezel added. “It’s extraordinary. We are starting to add screens. But its really important that people go buy the tickets now.”
“July 4: Can we give those kids back their freedom on our Independence Day? We have a darkness around us right now. We could lose our republic. Are we going to let our children go?” the actor asked.
