Sound of Freedom actress Mira Sorvino: ‘My heart burns’ to end sex trafficking
Heather Hamilton
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PROVO, UTAH — Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Mira Sorvino, who stars in the new film Sound of Freedom, is highlighting the connection between the industry of commercialized sex and human trafficking.
Sound of Freedom premiered in theaters on July 4, detailing the true story of how Tim Ballard, a then-federal agent, quit his job and risked his life to journey into the jungles of Colombia in an effort to save a girl, the sister of a recently-rescued seven-year-old boy, from sex slavery.
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In the film, Sorvino plays Ballard’s wife. She also has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime with a focus on human trafficking since 2009.
Sorvino told the Washington Examiner that she was drawn to the film because she has “met so many child survivors and my heart burns for them.”
“They all have the capacity to rebound,” Sorvino explained, speaking of trafficking victims. “That is what I’ve learned over all these years of meeting all these tremendously brave and earnest and honest survivors is that they’re all ready to take their lives back. All they need is for us to get involved enough to help them do it. Right now only 0.4% of human trafficking victims are ever discovered and either rescued or exited themselves. We all have to do more.”
Sorvino called for an end to the commercialization of sex, as it “creates a marketplace for the sale of trafficked human beings.
“If you buy it you’re creating that marketplace where traffickers bring their human wares to sell,” she said, adding that coming-of-age and bachelor party celebrations must refrain from its use.
“The mind becomes more and more deranged,” Sorvino added. “The appetite grows upon feeding, right? Addiction craves more and more depravity — in sex addiction. We just can’t accept it anymore. We can’t let sweet children of the world be exploited in this way and hurt in this way.”
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Sound of Freedom distributor Angel Studios has called for two million people to purchase tickets and attend the film in theaters to represent the two million trafficked children across the world.
“During the 1800s Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin and it became the best-selling book of the 1800s, and that book was credited by Abraham Lincoln for ending slavery,” Angel Studios Chief Content Officer Jeff Harmon told the Washington Examiner. “Our hope is that this movie can be the modern-day version of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
Angel Studio President Jordan Harmon added that they believe the film “will not only be a movement for the world to end child trafficking, but hopefully help people understand that our mission is to tell stories that are going to impact culture.”
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The film also features Jim Caviezel from The Passion of the Christ and Bill Camp from 12 Years a Slave. The film is produced by Eduardo Verástegui and written and directed by Alejandro Monteverde.
Tickets for the film may be purchased or paid forward using Angel Studios’s “Pay It Forward” software, which allows people to purchase tickets on behalf of others.