A champion of the movie from its inception, producer Stephen McEveety, who also played a significant role in raising the funds for the film to be made, says watching Soraya M. with an audience was a very revealing experience. “There are a lot of victims who are never heard, and when you watch this with people, you can see who’s been a victim,” McEveety says. “You can also spot the abusers, and they don’t like seeing themselves in this movie. It’s very layered, and I never dreamed it would come out the way it did. It has this haunting quality to it.”

After working with Caviezel on The Passion of the Christ, and now Soraya M., McEveety admits that a lighter project was probably the right next move for him, though. “As soon as I finished shooting, I longed to do a nice family film,” McEveety shares. “And that’s exactly what I just finished shooting,”

Even Caviezel confesses that after making a film like Soraya M., it would be nice to be cast in a comedy—if the right script ever turned up. “But somehow, people just don’t see me that way,” Caviezel says with a laugh. “So I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing. As an actor, I look for stuff that impacts me. And I've been in a position to do it, so I choose to make these kind of projects. I'd rather be in a position like this where I can make things I feel get people to look deep. I want to know how a story like this is resolved to prevent it from happening over and over again.”

Starring Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marno , Shohreh Aghdashloo and Jim Caviezel, The Stoning of Soraya M. opens in limited release in theaters nationwide on Friday, June 26, 2009.  For more information, please visit the official site for The Stoning of Soraya M.