When we made Vaxxed, it got kicked out of the Tribeca Film Festival, and a full firestorm broke out around us. The media went after us, calling us baby killers, saying the film was going to get people killed.
In the middle of it all, Robert De Niro, the festival's founder, went public on our behalf. He said he believed in the film, that he had a child with autism, and that he was standing behind us. Two days later, we were kicked out anyway. Even Robert De Niro, in his own festival, couldn’t stand up against whatever force was actually making that decision.
We got on a call, asked them directly what they thought they were doing, and told them that censoring a film like this would hurt the festival’s credibility. Their answer was that a scientific body had reviewed it and found misinformation and inaccuracies. We asked which parts and they wouldn't tell us.
Think about that. They wouldn’t name a single inaccuracy, they took the film out from under the festival’s own founder, and the owner of the festival couldn’t override the decision. That tells you there’s a “they.”
@Maveapproach