De Niro added, The Festival doesnt seek to avoid or shy away from controversy.
We have decided to remove it from our schedule.
Wakefields findings, which were first published in British medical journalThe Lancetin 1998, were proven false and discredited.
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The controversy around his career was not mentioned on the Tribeca Film Festival website in the entry forVaxxed.
Thepage has since been removed.
This years Tribeca Film Festival runs from April 13 through April 24.
