‘Sound of Freedom’ is real, not QAnon fantasy says anti-trafficking hero who inspired hit

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James Ballard inspired the independent movie which is bigger at the box office than “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” He trashed claims it’s a QAnon dog whistle.

Journalist Mike Rothschild said on CNN: “These [kinds of] films are created out of moral panics … [‘Sound of Freedom’] specifically is looking at QAnon concepts of these child trafficking rings.”Tim Ballard in a CBS News segment from 2014, which reported on a raid in Colombia that inspired “Sound of Freedom.”“‘Sound of Freedom’ at its core, is a message about protecting children from child-trafficking cartels,” he said.

“This movie wasn’t designed to be political,” he said adding that it had nothing to do with QAnon. Completed in 2018, it was a virtual marathon to get the movie to the big screens. Eduardo Verastegui produced and acted in “Sound of Freedom.” He came up with the idea after seeing Ballard’s raid in Colombia, but the movie got stuck in the Hollywood system until independent distributors bought rights to it.

 

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