Title: Sound of Freedom
Original Title: Sound of Freedom
Year: 2023
Info
- Country: USA
- Language: English Spanish
- Length: 131 Minutes (2 hours 11 min)
- Budget: $14,600,000
- Genre: Drama Action Biography
- Topic: Human trafficking
- Studios: Santa Fe Films
- Distributor: A Contracorriente Films
Release Dates
- UK: September 01 2023
- United States: July 04 2023
Plot
Tim Ballard is a federal agent who leaves his job to dedicate his life to fighting against global trafficking of kids. He manages to save a boy from the trafficking, but his sister his still kept captive. He embarks on a dangerous mission, risking his life to free her from a destiny way worse than death. Based in a real story that shows the horrors of child trafficking.
Directed by Alejandro Monteverde, who's previously directed 'Bella' (2006) and 'Little Boy' (2015). He's also worked as a producer and screenwriter. He writes the script with Rod Barr, who's taken part in 'Is That You?' (2014). The main cast is headed by Jim Caviezel ('The Passion of the Christ', 'The Thin Red Line', 'Frequency', 'The Final Cut') as Tim Ballard, Bill Camp ('12 Years a Slave', 'Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)', 'Joker', 'Compliance') as Vampiro and Cristal Aparicio ('Perdida', 'Sin Senos Sí Hay Paraíso') as Rocío. We also have Javier Godino as Jorge, Lucás Ávila as Miguel, Yessica Borroto as Katy, Manny Perez as Fuego, Eduardo Verástegui as Pablo, Samuel Livingston as Simba and Gustavo Sánchez Parras as El Calacas.
This is a production by Santa Fe Films with Lukas Behnken and Eduardo Verástegui as producers. Photography is by Gorka Gómez Andreu, who's also worked in 'Chaika', 'Las buenas compañías', 'Irati' and 'El Internado: Las Cumbres'.
Cast
Director:
Tim Ballard
Vampiro
Jorge
Pablo
El Calacas
Oshinsky
El Alacrán
Videos
July 11 2023
Photos
Trivia
Years of waiting
The movie was finished in 2018, but it would take years to release as the filmmakers were turned down by various distributing companies as they didn't want the film associated with their output, such as Netflix.
Tim Ballard
Against the wishes of the producers, Tim Ballard personally insisted that Jim Caviezel play him in the film.
Important message
At the end of the head credits, Jim Caviezel delivers a "special message" to the theatre audience. In it he talks about how the kids in the story are the real heroes, and how the cast and crew believed in the movie so much that they hurdled various barriers to get into theatres (referencing the five year gap between the film being finished and it being released). At the end he urged movie goers to pull out their phones and use the website on screen to buy tickets for other people, urging that financial constraints should not limit people from seeing the movie.
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