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.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.
“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.
“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. 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.
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