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“Vaxxed” is not an anti-vaccine movie, so don’t dismiss this film without seeing it. Willful ignorance is never a good thing. We’ve had far too much of it in the vaccine debate already.

“Vaxxed” is a pro-safe vaccine movie. It is a listen-to-the-parents-of-children-who-have-been- harmed movie. It is a compelling documentary exposing a high level of corruption and fraud within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It also explores the insidious reach of the pharmaceutical industry into our lives and the devastation that that unholy alliance between the CDC and pharmaceutical industry has caused in human lives. Most importantly, it warns of the catastrophic future we are facing if we don’t wake up and act soon.

It doesn’t matter which side of the vaccine debate you are on. This movie carries voices that must be heard. (more…)

When the call came from the heads of the Tribeca Film Festival, specifically co-founder Jane Rosenthal and Tribeca Enterprises’ Executive Vice President Paula Weinstein, to let my head of distribution, Rich Castro, and me know that they had decided to “de-select” our film Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe, I didn’t want to believe it.

I couldn’t understand how it could even be possible–when the selection had been confirmed publicly by Tribeca co-founder Robert De Niro himself the day before. (more…)

Robert De Niro is widely reckoned to be the world’s trickiest celebrity to interview. He will sit looking morose and mumble monosyllabic answers. Any question about his private life will be met with the sort of thinly veiled menace he provides so perfectly in his film roles.

But there is one subject, as painfully private and sensitive as one can imagine, on which he has been more than happy to talk in recent days — about how his 18-year-old son, Elliot, suffers from autism. (more…)