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(OSV News) — A new film starring Jim Caviezel aims to move millions to end the scourge of child trafficking.
“Sound of Freedom,” directed by Alejandro Monteverde, will debut in theaters July 4 with Caviezel starring as Tim Ballard, who began his career at the CIA and then spent more than a decade as a special agent for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security battling child exploitation. Assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, Ballard was deployed as an undercover operative for the U.S. Child Sex Tourism Jump Team, infiltrating criminal organizations that sexually abused and trafficked children.
In 2013, Ballard and a team of former agents left DHS to form Operation Underground Railroad, a private foundation that assists international governments and U.S. law enforcement in dismantling criminal trafficking organizations that target children.
Ballard has testified before Congress on child trafficking and has advocated vigorously to raise awareness of the issue, which is estimated to affect at least 1.7 million children globally, according to the International Labor Organization.
For Caviezel, portraying Ballard — and replicating his dramatic real-life rescues of enslaved children — is a role second only to that of playing Jesus in “The Passion of the Christ,” with a similarly compelling mission.
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“Sound of Freedom,” directed by Alejandro Monteverde, will debut in theaters July 4 with Caviezel starring as Tim Ballard, who began his career at the CIA and then spent more than a decade as a special agent for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security battling child exploitation. Assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, Ballard was deployed as an undercover operative for the U.S. Child Sex Tourism Jump Team, infiltrating criminal organizations that sexually abused and trafficked children.
In 2013, Ballard and a team of former agents left DHS to form Operation Underground Railroad, a private foundation that assists international governments and U.S. law enforcement in dismantling criminal trafficking organizations that target children.
Ballard has testified before Congress on child trafficking and has advocated vigorously to raise awareness of the issue, which is estimated to affect at least 1.7 million children globally, according to the International Labor Organization.
For Caviezel, portraying Ballard — and replicating his dramatic real-life rescues of enslaved children — is a role second only to that of playing Jesus in “The Passion of the Christ,” with a similarly compelling mission.
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Caviezel: 'Sound of Freedom' a 'weapon of mass instruction' to end child trafficking
A new film, 'Sound of Freedom', starring Jim Caviezel aims to move millions to end the scourge of child trafficking.
www.oursundayvisitor.com
