It all happened very fast. First, documentary filmmaker Penny Lane, whose film NUTS! screened at this year's Sundance Film Festival, noticed something strange in the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival programming lineup. Alongside films about the Holocaust, the Syrian refugee crisis, abortion, and the right to end one's own life was a film called Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe. Although the film's subject matter, anti-vaccination, piqued Lane's interest, she didn't bat an eye—film festivals often screen films about controversial topics. But she became very disconcerted when she recognized the film director's name.
How could Tribeca allow Andrew Wakefield, one of the anti-vaccination movement's zealots, and a man who has been extensively discredited by the scientific community at large, to use the festival as a platform for his mendacious and dangerous beliefs?
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