ACTION ALERT

Censored!

On its website, the Tribeca Film Festival celebrates “storytellers,” including the likes of Tom Hanks, John Oliver, Tina Fey and others.

But there’s one storyteller the film festival’s board is determined to silence this year—Dr. William Thompson, a scientist who blew the whistle on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for suppressing data that linked the MMR (mumps, measles, rubella) vaccine to autism.

“VAXXED – From Cover-Up to Catastrophe” is a documentary film based on claims by Thompson that he and colleagues at the CDC lied about the results of their own study, a study that revealed a link between the MMR vaccine and the rise of autism in African American boys. The film, directed by Andrew Wakefield and produced by Del Bigtree, features journalist Ben Swann who examines Thompson’s claims through interviews he conducts with doctors, journalists, authors and former CDC specialists.

Robert De Niro, co-founder of the Tribeca festival and parent of an autistic child, came under fire for plans to screen the film at this year’s prestigious Tribeca Film Festival. When the complaints started rolling in, the actor initially defended the decision. But on March 26, he pulled the plug, telling “The Hollywood Reporter,” he didn’t believe the film “contributes to or furthers the discussion I had hoped for.”

How could a film, based on thousands of pages of documents, scrutinized by a credible journalist, containing interviews with respected professionals, not contribute to or further the discussion? How much pressure did Big Pharma and its complicit partners in Big Media exert on De Niro to get him to pull the plug?

TAKE ACTION: Tell Robert De Niro and the Tribeca Film Festival Board: Support Truth and Free Speech. Don’t Censor “VAXXED.”

Text “Tribeca” to 97779 to sign the petition

Email editor@tribecafilm.com to say you disagree with the decision to withdraw “VAXXED” from the festival.

Watch the trailer for VAXXED

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