Nefarious: Merchant of Souls
"Nefarious" was written, directed, produced and narrated by Benjamin Nolot, founder and president of Exodus Cry, the film's distributor. Nolot, who travelled to 19 countries to collect the film's content, said that the purpose of the film is "to draw people's attention to the issue, but also to inspire them in terms of what they can be doing … to take a stand against this injustice." The film was officially released on July 27, 2011, with individual grassroots screenings also taking place. Laila Mickelwait, Exodus Cry's director of awareness and prevention, screened the film in several countries in an attempt to persuade governments to make laws similar to Sweden's "Sex Purchase Act", which criminalizes the purchasing rather than the selling of sex. The film was released on home video on May 1, 2012.
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 .