Movie Shots in the Dark risks of Vaccines

January 17, 2009

Its now official , you should be able to purchase

the video after January 30, 2009

http://www2.nfb.ca/boutique/XXNFBibeWelcome.jsp?language=US

SHOTS IN THE DARK by Lina B. Moreco

A penetrating look

at the side effects of vaccination

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Opens January 30, 2009

Montreal, Wednesday, January 14, 2009 – Four years after Medicine

Under the Influence, Lina B. Moreco's documentary on the serious

consequences of extreme medical treatments for premature babies (2004

prix Gémeaux), the filmmaker is back with Shots in the Dark. The

fruit of three years' rigorous research into childhood vaccination,

this Canada-France co-production between the National Film Board of

Canada and Play Film opens January 30 at the NFB CineRobotheque in

Montreal and la Maison du cinéma in Sherbrooke, later at Québec

City's Le Clap in February.

Vaccination can cause serious side effects in some people, such as

autism and multiple sclerosis, which raises questions about current

policies and practices. Shots in the Dark is Canada's first

documentary feature to probe this important subject, giving a voice

to victims, legal experts as well as high-level scientific

researchers in Quebec, France and the United States, who explain the

complex processes surrounding vaccine side effects.

Based on recommendations of health agencies, North American children

receive about 48 doses of 14 different vaccines before the age of 6—

double the amount prescribed 25 years earlier. Laboratories the world

over are currently preparing more vaccines to add to the list. While

accepting that there are unquestionable and widely documented

benefits of vaccination, this compassionate documentary raises a

number of profoundly disturbing questions, including this: How many

people are we willing to sacrifice silently in the name of the common

good?

Concerned with questions of social ethics, Lina B. Moreco places the

individual at the core of her films. After earning an MFA in Film

Production from Concordia University and an MA in Sociology at

Université de Montréal (where she is now pursuing her doctorate in

sociology), she became interested in documentary cinema and

subsequently immersed herself in her subject matter: the world of the

socially maladjusted in De l'autre côté du monde (1990); the

realities of street people with AIDS in Vivre à mort (1992); reformed

prisoners in La Mort des masques (1995); religious faith in Believing

(1997); and euthanasia in Let Me Die (2002). Her documentary Medicine

Under the Influence (2004) about extreme medical treatments for

premature babies won the 2004 Prix Gémeaux for best scientific

documentary.

Shots in the Dark was produced by Johanne Bergeron and Yves Bisaillon

of the National Film Board of Canada and Hind Saïh of Play Film.

January 19, 2009

There's also a new movie coming out this year called "Bethany's Story" about a girl who was in a wheelchair (from immunization) for several years, who cured herself with a raw food diet. She's today a normal 17 year old girl, as she just turned 17 this month.

Gene