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Over a year after being programmed — and ultimately pulled — from the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, Andrew Wakefield’s controversial anti-vacciation documentary, “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe,” has resurfaced at another prestigious film festival.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is set for a “secret” screening during this month’s Cannes Film Festival, where sales company and distributor Cinema Libre will screen it on May 25. Cinema Libre has secured distribution deals for the film in various foreign countries, but is bringing the doc to the Cannes market in hopes of selling it to further international territories.

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“We’ve done secret screenings throughout Europe where we don’t announce the location until the day before because there are organized groups of pro-vaccine folks who will mobilize 10-20 people to call the venue that will threaten...

Controversial documentary Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe is getting a secret Cannes screening on May 25.

The film, which sparked outrage on both side of the vaccination debate after it was added to the Tribeca Film Festival lineup in March 2016 only to be ousted days later, is being sold here at the Marche by L.A.-based distribution and sales company Cinema Libre in international territories, where it is doing brisk business.

“We’ve done secret screenings throughout Europe where we don’t announce the location until the day before because there are organized groups of pro-vaccine...

The producers of Alex Gibney’s new documentary “No Stone Unturned” have pulled the film from the Tribeca Film Festival one week before its scheduled premiere on Saturday, April 23.

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“We were notified today from the producers of Alex Gibney’s ‘No Stone Unturned’ that there are outstanding legal issues surrounding the film and they will need to withdraw the documentary from the Festival,” the Tribeca Film Festival said in a statement. “We are very disappointed that audiences will not be able to see the film at Tribeca and we know Alex is equally disappointed that his film will not have its world premiere at the Festival.”

Here’s the official synopsis for the movie:

In 1994, six men were gunned down and five wounded in a pub while celebrating Ireland’s landmark victory...

A total of 145 feature documentaries were submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the 89th Academy Awards.

Out of those films the members of the Academy’s documentary branch will select a shortlist of 15 features that will be announced in December, and the five nominations will be announced on January 24.

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Among the titles included in the list are Ava DuVernay’s “13th,” the Sundance Documentary Grand Jury Prize winner “Weiner” by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg, Raoul Peck’s Toronto Film Festival Audience Award winner “I Am Not Your Negro,” the visually stunning “Voyage of Time: The Imax Experience” by Terrence Malik and Otto Bell’s “The Eagle Huntress.”

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Penny Lane‘s Nuts!, following the life and chronicles of quack doctor, politician, and radio broadcaster John Romulus Brinkley — who skirted the FCC, medical establishment and international law as he was run out of Kansas — was one of many highlights this year at the Sundance Film Festival. Hilarious, yet strangely sympathetic, the film’s story is so absurd, Lane (known best for her intimate look at happier days in a troubled presidency, Our Nixon) deploys animated reenactments alongside archival materials creating a character study that both plays into Brinkley’s spin machine while pushing against it.

We spoke with director about the evolution of the film, an eight-year process kickstarted by stumbling across the story in a public library, leading to the film’s theatrical release right in the middle of a heated presidential election year. Check out the conversation below, along with an exclusive clip from the film.

Congratulations on the film.

Exclusive: The controversial documentary Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe is getting a booster shot from the Middle Kingdom. Distributor Cinema Libre Studio has partnered with China's Gaia Studio to significantly expand the U.S. release. The Chinese group also is planning to release the film in Taiwan and Hong Kong and has designs on a Chinese run. They are teaming with Cinema Libre to create a joint venture in the Proc, the new partners say. The doc, which claims…...

Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe Cinema Libre Studio Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B+ Director: Andrew Wakefield Written by: Del Matthew Bigtee, Andrew Wakefield Cast: Del Matthew Bigtree, Andrew Wakefield, William Thompson, Brian Hooker, Steve Hooker, Marcia Hooker, Rhonda Roberts, Tyler Roberts, Noah Roberts, Sophia Guarneri, Jonathon Tommey, Jonathan Edwards, Jack Devereux, Daniel Lawler, Del Bigtree, Thaea Bigtree, Rep Dan Burton, Rep Bill Posey, many others Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/1/16 Opens: April 1, 2016 If I were still in front of a classroom now, I would love to show Andrew Wakefield’s new film “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe,” which is not really balanced (documentaries, contrary to popular [ Read More ]

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Distributor Cinema Libre has hailed a successful opening weekend for the documentary that lost its Tribeca world premiere berth following an outcry over the veracity of its scientific claims.

Vaxxed: From Cover-Up To Catastrophe by Andrew Wakefield, which among other things discusses a causal link between the Mmr vaccine and autism and an alleged cover-up by a Us medical organisation, grossed $28,339 over three days at New York’s Angelika Film Center.

Tribeca Film Festival top brass pulled the film from the line-up last week when co-founder Robert De Niro, who has a child with autism, consulted colleagues and members of the scientific community and determined the film did not adequately contribute to the ongoing discussion about autism.

In an open letter to Filmmaker magazine, director Penny Lane called Wakefield a “discredited and dangerous anti-vaccination quack.”

Wakefield, who published research into an alleged link between the vaccine and autism, lost his license in the UK and a number...

Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead from Sony Classics hit a high note atop the Specialty Box Office chart this very crowded weekend, with the competition holding its own. Paramount launched Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! to a solid $17K average in 19 theaters, and the fresh-off-a-mini-media frenzy Vaxxed grossed $22K at the Angelika in New York. Music Box's Francofonia had a good start in two locations, and China Lion's Congqing Hot Pot brought in the crowds in 20…...

Festival co-founder Robert De Niro on Saturday pulled Andrew Wakefield’s documentary Vaxxed: From Cover-Up To Catastrophe amid a backlash over the veracity of its claims.

De Niro took the decision one day after defending the inclusion of the film, which maintains there is a causal link between the Mmr vaccine and incidence of autism.

Scientists and other film-makers have taken issue with that claim. In an open latter in Filmmaker last week, Penny Lane described Wakefield as a “discredited and dangerous anti-vaccination quack.”

A medical paper by Wakefield published in 1998 that claimed to trace a connection between the Mmr vaccine and autism was later retracted by the publication in which it ran.

“My intent in screening this film was to provide an opportunity for conversation around an issue that is deeply personal to me and my family,” said De Niro, who is the father to a child with autism.

“But after reviewing...

Vaxxed: From Cover-Up To Catastrophe has now been pulled from the Tribeca line-up Photo: Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival The Tribeca Film Festival has announced it has removed controversial anti-vaccination documentary directed by struck-off former doctor Andrew Wakefield from its line-up.

Festival co-founder Robert De Niro, who had previously backed the decision to screen Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, issued a second statement outlining the reasons for the decision.

He said: “My intent in screening this film was to provide an opportunity for conversation around an issue that is deeply personal to me and my family. But after reviewing it over the past few days with the Tribeca Film Festival team and others from the scientific community, we do not believe it contributes to or furthers the discussion I had hoped for.

"The Festival doesn't seek to avoid or shy away from controversy. However, we have concerns with certain things...

Vaxxed: From Cover-Up To Catastrophe has now been pulled from the Tribeca line-up Photo: Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro has defended the decision by the annual New York event to screen a controversial anti-vaccination documentary directed by discredited British gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield.

Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe is also co-written by Wakefield, who became infamous in Britain after his 1998 study claiming a link between the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism - which resulted in a health scare - was later found by the General Medical Council to have violated ethical standards. The British Medical Journal found aspects of the research "fraudulent", the study was retracted by The Lancet and Wakefield was subsequently struck off the medical register.

The NHS website says: "Andrew Wakefield's work has been completely discredited and he has been struck off as a doctor in the UK. Subsequent studies...

Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro today took direct responsibility for the fest’s world-premiere screening of Vaxxed: From Cover-Up To Catastrophe, a documentary about a purported link between the Mmr (measles/mumps/rubella) vaccine and an uptick in autism. That claim has been widely discredited in the medical community. The controversy has provoked angry confrontations between those convinced of a conspiracy to cover-up the “truth” about the vaccine’s…...