LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- America's most
controversial documentary, Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to
Catastrophe from Cinema Libre Studios, premiered in
Belgium, the U.K and France over this last week despite significant
censorship attempts by some members of the European Parliament, by
Parisian government officials, and a U.K. cinema owner. At the same
time, Del Bigtree, one of the
producers of Vaxxed, joined Robert
F. Kennedy, Jr. and Robert De
Niro at the National Press Club to announce a $100,000 challenge with the goal of stopping the
use of mercury in vaccines.
Vaxxed investigates the charges made by
a whistleblower at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, the leading national public health institute of
the United States, who revealed
that the agency manipulated and destroyed data on an important
study showing a causal link between the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR)
vaccine and autism. The film, which calls for safer vaccines, was
released in 2016 in North America
amidst significant controversy for its criticism of the CDC and the
pharmaceutical industry.
Vaxxed was scheduled to screen last week at the
European Parliament in Brussels as
part of a conference on vaccine safety, organized and hosted by a
French MEP. Due to a disinformation campaign led by a small, but
vocal, opposition group with purported ties to the pharmaceutical
industry, some Members of the European Parliament made the decision
to censor the film and prevent it from screening at the Parliament.
Both the screening and this unprecedented vaccine safety conference
moved locations and took place on February 9th with a discussion
following that included the film's director, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Nobel Prize winning virologist
Luc Montagnier, MEP Michele Rivasi, and the Italian nanotechnology
researcher Stefano Montanari.
(http://www.globalmediaplanet.info/expert-debate-held-in-bruxelles-vaccine-safety-under-questionmark/)
An additional debate on Vaccine safety was hosted in this venue
on the same afternoon. Opened to the public of Brussels, this second debate lined-up several
major experts on the question of vaccines safety, including
lawyers, scientists and whistleblowers hailing from different
European countries for the occasion. This second debate was
followed by an additional screening of Vaxxed with 300
people in attendance the entire day.
A second Paris screening was
scheduled for Monday, February
13th, by the same MEP, as part of a vaccine
safety debate to take place at a City Hall venue in the
2ndarrondissement. That
screening was cancelled by a top Paris city official who never even saw the
film. The screening and vaccine safety debate, with Wakefield in
attendance, also moved to an alternate venue, with 155 people in
attendance and a clear "Stop the Censure" message by the
public.
"The censorship in Europe,
specifically by a top Paris city
official and some members of the European Parliament, continues the
defamation that the team involved with the film endured in the U.S.
and Australia. Those people carry
an enormous responsibility by preventing an essential debate to
take place while hundreds of thousands of children become sicker or
fall on the autistic spectrum. We all believe in vaccines but the
pharmaceutical industry does not care about vaccine safety and that
is what must change. The film challenges
the multibillion dollar revenue streams of the two major
pharmaceutical companies that hold the majority share of the MMR
vaccine market in the U.K. and U.S., which is why they are
doing everything they can to stop people from seeing it," says
Philippe Diaz, Chairman of Cinema Libre Studio.
"Therefore, we are making Vaxxed available to stream
commercially in the U.K., Ireland
and Australia."
(www.vaxxedthemovie.com/stream/)
In London, a premiere at the
Curzon Cinemas was also cancelled due to a phone campaign
organized by the same opposition group. The February
14th London premiere of Vaxxed was moved to
an alternative venue and continued with director Wakefield in
attendance.
Yesterday, Vaxxed producer Del
Bigtree joined Robert F. Kennedy,
Jr. and Robert De Niro on
stage at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., as part of a World Mercury
Project press conference to announce a $100,000 award to any journalist who could
produce a single study that conclusively showed that it was safe to
inject pregnant women and children with levels of mercury that are
currently found in common vaccines.
(http://www.trueactivist.com/robert-de-niro-and-rfk-jr-expose-massive-corruption-in-vaccine-industry-in-a-press-conference/
https://www.facebook.com/WorldMercuryProject/videos/1866347393612673/
)
Vaxxed is also produced by British filmmaker
Polly Tommey of the Autism Media Channel with Bigtree,
who was a medical journalist with the hit television show "The
Doctors."
Director Wakefield is a British
academic gastroenterologist who, with Dr. John Walker-Smith, one of the world's leading
pediatric gastroenterologists, was the first to postulate that
there was a causal link between gut problems in regressive autistic
patients and vaccines. They, along with 11 other authors, published
their findings in The Lancet, a British medical
journal, in February 1998. At a press
conference in support of the
publication, Wakefield suggested using the single
measles, mumps and rubella shots, instead of the bundled three shot
MMR, until further studies could be done. Upon hearing this
information, some parents elected to forgo the vaccines and a
controversy erupted
Vaxxed captured international headlines last year
after it was "de-selected" from the Tribeca Film Festival
due to pressure put on the festival's organizers from sponsors with
connections to the pharmaceutical industry. Despite numerous
attempts at incorrectly labeling the film as "anti-vaccine" and
overt censorship from festivals and media outlets, the film was
released theatrically in over 60 U.S and Canadian cities, with an
additional 500 screening events, has grossed over $1.2
million at the box office and sold tens of thousands
of DVDs and digital streams. The filmmakers have been
touring the nation by bus, (the Vaxxed tour),
and have recorded nearly ten thousand vaccine injury stories.
Since widening its release, the film has also experienced organized
censorship in Italy and
Australia.
Robert DeNiro, one of Tribeca Film Festival's
founders, who originally advocated for the film, famously
said on national television, "I think the movie is something
that people should see."
MEDIA CONTACT:
Jamie Coker Robertson
jamievaxxed@gmail.com
Beth Portello, Cinema Libre
Studio
press@cinemalibrestudio.com
818-588-3033
FILM LINKS:
www.vaxxedthemovie.com |
@vaxxedthemovie | facebook.com/vaxxedthemovie
RELATED COVERAGE:
http://www.today.com/popculture/robert-deniro-debates-autism-s-link-vaccines-today-show-t86136
Additional coverage can be found here:
HTTP://VAXXEDTHEMOVIE.COM/PRESS/
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