Filmmaker Mikki Willis's anti-vax, COVID-grievance film won 'Best Documentary Feature.' Julian tracks conspiracy films at the Santa Monica International Film Festival. They discuss dangerous misinformation, platforming conspiracy theories, and the normalization of such content.
The Santa Monica Film Festival's platforming of conspiracy films raises concerns about the spread of dangerous misinformation.
'Shot Dead' documentary at the festival highlights unfounded vaccine injury claims and potential harms of vaccine misinformation.
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Pandemic 3: The Great Awakening wins at the Santa Monica Film Festival
The podcast episode discussed the Santa Monica Film Festival and highlighted the surprise victory of the documentary film, 'Pandemic 3: The Great Awakening,' in the Best Documentary Feature category. The film, directed by Mickey Willis, delves into conspiracy theories surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and criticizes public health measures as authoritarian tyranny. The podcast questioned the festival's decision to include conspiracy-driven films and expressed concern about the impact of such films on public perception and understanding of important issues.
Film screening on vaccine injuries and anti-vax sentiments
At the Santa Monica Film Festival, another documentary titled 'Shot Dead' was screened, which focused on alleged vaccine injuries and the negative consequences of COVID-19 vaccinations. The film recounted the stories of parents who believed their children's deaths were caused by the COVID-19 vaccine, although no direct causal evidence was presented. The podcast episode expressed skepticism about the claims made in the film, emphasizing that serious adverse reactions to vaccines are extremely rare and that misinformation surrounding vaccines may lead to preventable deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases.
An anti-vax, COVID-grievance, climate-science denying, communism panic-generating film by Mikki Willis just won “Best Documentary Feature” at the Santa Monica International Film Festival.
Julian attended the festival in order to track how Willis’s latest paranoid pseudomentary, “Plandemic 3: The Great Awakening,” was platformed at this annual fete held in affluent Santa Monica alongside two other conspiracy films: “Shot Dead” and “We Will Not Be Silenced.” These three films include a who’s-who of conspiritualists: David Icke, JP Sears, Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, Brian Rose, Peter McCullough, and newer “medical whistle-blowers.”
This is the on-the-ground story about how a 30-year-old normie independent film festival got red-pilled into platforming such dangerous misinformation.
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