Andy Wakefield

The CDC had known all along there was this MMR autism risk.

Sure.

It was, I mean, it was going to be dynamite, whatever happened.

And we put it in, we decided that we would put it into one film festival and that was Tribeca, the preeminent film festival in North America run by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal.

And we put it in, it got in.

The film got in on its merits, notwithstanding the fact that Robert De Niro has got himself got a vaccine injured child with autism.

And I was home one day and I got a call from Dell a few weeks later saying,

they pulled our film from Tribeca.

And I think the first time in the history of Tribeca Film Festival that a film had been censored.

And they came up with some cockamamie story about why it was done.

Other directors were going to pull their film from the festival if they played our movie.

That is garbage.

There isn't a director in the world who would pull his film from Tribeca Film Festival on principle.

They don't exist.

They're not on this planet.

Documentaries, feature films, the whole lot.

The best of the best.

And so it was a bad few days.

And then Robert De Niro came out and he went on the morning show in Good Morning America.

They have a week where they devote discussion about the film festival.