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.
Benjamin Ross Hayden
Benjamin Ross Hayden is the founder of "Manifold Pictures". Through Manifold Pictures, Hayden has focused on producing film and video, and has created award-winning works that have screened at major international festivals, including The 40th Montreal World Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival of Catalonia, and the imagineNATIVE International Film Festival. Hayden's recent films have portrayed indigenous futurism narratives concerned with Métis history, humanity's impact on planet earth, and interpreting Canadian history as mythology by using Alberta as a backdrop for futuristic narratives. Benjamin Ross Hayden won the award for Best Screenwriter at the 40th Alberta Film & Television Awards. Following the announcement that his first feature film The Northlander would be funded by Telefilm Canada, he received a distribution deal with Raven Banner Releasing, and with Spotlight Pictures as international agents. Benjamin's breakout medium length science fiction Agophobia (2013) is preserved in the national archives of .