Two years ago, students at Carlsbad High School began filming a documentary, The Invisible Threat—a report on the "science of disease and the risks facing a society that is under-vaccinated." But it is only now that the public is able to see the film, which became the target of a national anti-vaxxer campaign.
The 40-minute documentary is an extracurricular project produced by CHSTVfilms, the California high school's award-winning journalism and film program, which has also produced documentaries on food insecurity in affluent areas of San Diego County and the experiences of American teenagers first learning about the Holocaust.
But when a local newspaper reported that 16 students had begun tackling the issue of immunization, the documentary became a lightning rod for anti-vaxxer outrage even before it was finished...
Read the full article on io9: A Student Film Suppressed By Anti-Vaxxers Has Finally Been Released
You can also visit the CHS TV website and donate to the project on their website.
