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.
Mamoun Hassan
Mamoun Hassan was born in Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia. He was head of production of the British Film Institute from 1971, in which post he continued the BFI's "radical" policy of supporting low-budget experimental films; he assisted the director Bill Douglas by securing crew and funding to make "The Bill Douglas Trilogy" (1972–78), and financially supported the production of "Winstanley" (1975). After leaving the BFI he taught at the National Film and Television School at Beaconsfield, then in 1979 he became managing director of the National Film Finance Corporation. In this position he backed the film "Babylon" (1980), and again helped Douglas in the production of "Comrades" (1986). Despite the "brave funding choices" and renewed creativity of the NFFC under Hassan, it was abolished in 1985. Since then he has worked as a film producer, screenwriter, consultant, lecturer and teacher in the field of cinema.