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On August 16, the studio announced in a press release that it repaid its backers their original investment plus a 20% profit. To distribute and market Sound of Freedom, Angel raised $5 million from nearly 7,000 crowd investors in exchange for shares of the film's revenue.

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What is Angel Studios and how did it get involved?įounded in 2021 by Mormon brothers Neal and Jeff Harmon, Angel Studios is a Utah-based media company that specializes in crowdfunding original films and TV series that 'amplify light.' In recent years, the studio has found success with The Chosen, a multi-season series about the life of Jesus touted by Angel as the 'biggest crowdfunded project in TV history,' and faith-based films like His Only Son and Testament.

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Disney allegedly declined to release the film, but ultimately allowed the filmmakers to buy back the rights.Īfter the movie was further delayed by the pandemic and passed on for distribution by other major studios and streamers, the Sound of Freedom team agreed to a deal with Angel Studios in March 2023. The film was initially picked up for distribution by Fox Latin America, but ended up in production limbo for nearly five years after Fox was acquired by Disney in 2019. “They are doing us a favor, the more they attack the movie, people show up,' he said. Verástegui later told the New York Post that while he doesn't understand the criticism surrounding the movie, he sees it as a blessing in disguise. I have a weapon of mass instruction, and inspiration.”

At Sound of Freedom's premiere, he told the Washington Examiner that after he heard Ballard's story, he was compelled to turn it into a film. Verástegui-who plays a role in Sound of Freedom in addition to producing-was also responsible for rallying the investors who supplied $14.5 million in funding for the film. In 2019, it was a completely finished film.'

'All I wanted was to present a question about the problem: human trafficking, child trafficking, child sexual exploitation,' Monteverde said. Child Sex Tourism Jump Team while assigned to Homeland Security's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force for over a decade prior to 2013. However, after the film’s producer, Eduardo Verástegui, met Ballard, the project came to center on the time that Ballard spent deployed as an undercover operative for the U.S. The resulting script, originally titled Mogul, was 'purely fictionalized,' he said. After watching a network news segment on child sex trafficking, Monteverde said he was inspired to start writing a screenplay on the subject. 'It’s not about politics.”Īccording to the filmmaker, he began the project that became Sound of Freedom in 2015, two years before QAnon emerged. “Anybody who watches this film knows that this film is not about conspiracy theories,' Angel CEO Neal Harmon said in an interview. The film's distributor, Angel Studios, has denied that Sound of Freedom is political or connected to QAnon.

These associations have been perpetuated by both Ballard and his on-screen counterpart, Jim Caviezel, who has been a prominent supporter of QAnon for years. Since its release on July 4, it's raked in over $180 million at the domestic box office, outperforming big-budget features like Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and making it the highest-grossing indie film since 2019’s Parasite.īilled as a story about the real-life Tim Ballard, a former special agent for the Department of Homeland Security and founder of the anti-trafficking group Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.), Sound of Freedom has become mired in controversy over criticisms that it features misleading depictions of child exploitation and plays into right-wing conspiracy theories associated with the QAnon movement. federal agent who goes rogue on a mission to rescue children in Latin America from sex trafficking. Amid the hype over the cinematic double whammy of 'Barbenheimer', another movie has crept up in the box office rankings this summer: Sound of Freedom.ĭirected and co-written by Alejandro Monteverde, Sound of Freedom is a low-budget action thriller about a U.S.

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