Nefarious: Merchant of Souls
"Nefarious" was written, directed, produced, and narrated by Benjamin Nolot, founder and president of Exodus Cry. Exodus Cry, which distributed the film, is headquartered in Grandview, Missouri and is an organization that opposes human trafficking by raising awareness, by reintegrating victims back into society, and by prayer. Nolot founded Exodus Cry in 2007 after a woman he did not know gave him , saying that God told her to do so in order that Nolot might found an anti-human-trafficking organization. This was founded at a prayer meeting later that year where attendees prayed for human trafficking victims. The organization claims that this prayer meeting occurred on the day before the announcement of the 2007 international child pornography investigation, which involved approximately 2,400 human-trafficking-related arrests in 77 countries.
Daniel Traub
As a filmmaker, Traub has directed documentaries including the feature length "Barefoot Artist" about Lily Yeh and her collaborative artworks in war-torn communities; and "Xu Bing: Phoenix", which highlights the condition of Chinese migrant labourers. He has been the director of photography for numerous documentaries and reports for networks and production companies including PBS, Arte and German Television ZDF where he worked extensively with senior correspondent Joachim Holtz. In 2011, Daniel Traub founded the film production company Itinerant Pictures. He is currently at work on a feature-length documentary on the artist Ursula von Rydingsvard.