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" Sicko " Is Completed and We're Off to Cannes!

May 17, 2007

Friends,

It's a wrap! My new film, " Sicko, " is all done and will have its world

premiere this Saturday night at the Cannes Film Festival. As with " Bowling

for Columbine " and " Fahrenheit 9/11, " we are honored to have been chosen by

this prestigious festival to screen our work there.

My intention was to keep " Sicko " under wraps and show it to virtually no

one before its premiere in Cannes. That is what I have done and, as you may

have noticed if you are a recipient of my infrequent Internet letters, I

have been very silent about what I've been up to. In part, that's because I

was working very hard to complete the film. But my silence was also because

I knew that the health care industry -- an industry which makes up more

than 15 percent of our GDP -- was not going to like much of what they were

going to see in this movie and I thought it best not to upset them any

sooner than need be.

Well, going quietly to Cannes, I guess, was not to be. For some strange

reason, on May 2nd the Bush administration initiated an action against me

over how I obtained some of the content they believe is in my film. As none

of them have actually seen the film (or so I hope!), they decided, unlike

with " Fahrenheit 9/11, " not to wait until the film was out of the gate and

too far down the road to begin their attack.

Bush's Treasury Secretary, Henry son, launched an investigation of a

trip I took to Cuba to film scenes for the movie. These scenes involve a

group of 9/11 rescue workers who are suffering from illnesses obtained from

working down at Ground Zero. They have received little or no help with

their health care from the government. I do not want to give away what

actually happens in the movie because I don't want to spoil it for you

(although I'm sure you'll hear much about it after it unspools Saturday).

Plus, our lawyers have advised me to say little at this point, as the film

goes somewhere far scarier than " Cuba. " Rest assured of one thing: no laws

were broken. All I've done is violate the modern-day rule of journalism

that says, " ask no questions of those in power or your luncheon privileges

will be revoked. "

This preemptive action taken by the Bush administration on the eve of the

" Sicko " premiere in Cannes led our attorneys to fear for the safety of our

film, noting that Secretary son may try to claim that the content of

the movie was obtained through a violation of the trade embargo that our

country has against Cuba and the travel laws that prohibit average citizens

of our free country from traveling to Cuba. (The law does not prohibit

anyone from exercising their first amendment right of a free press and

documentaries are protected works of journalism.)

I was floored when our lawyers told me this. " Are you saying they might

actually confiscate our movie? " " Yes, " was the answer. " These days,

anything is possible. Even if there is just a 20 percent chance the

government would seize our movie before Cannes, does anyone want to take

that risk? "

Certainly not. So there we were last week, spiriting a duplicate master

negative out of the country just so no one from the government would take

it from us. (Seriously, I can't believe I just typed those words! Did I

mention that I'm an American, and this is America and NO ONE should ever

have to say they had to do such a thing?)

I mean, folks, I have just about had it. Investigating ME because I'm

trying to help some 9/11 rescue workers our government has abandoned? Once

again, up is down and black is white. There are only two people in need of

an investigation and a trial, and the desire for this across America is so

widespread you don't even need to see the one's smirk or hear the other's

sneer to know who I am talking about.

But no, I'm the one who now has to hire lawyers and sneak my documentary

out of the country just so people can see a friggin' movie. I mean, it's

just a movie! What on earth could I have placed on celluloid that would

require such a nonsensical action against me?

Ok. Scratch that.

Well, I'm on my way to Cannes right now, a copy of the movie in my bag.

Don't feel too bad for me, I'll be in the south of France for a week! But

then it's back to the U.S. for a number of premieres and benefits and then,

finally, a chance for all of you to see this film that I have made. Circle

June 29th on your calendar because that's when it opens in theaters

everywhere across the country and Canada (for the rest of the world, it

opens in the fall).

I can't wait for you to see it.

Yours,

P.S. I will write more about what happens from Cannes. Stay tuned on my

website, .com.

Bending

Alliance for Health Freedom Australia

http://www.ahf-au.org

'All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing'

- Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish born writer and politician -

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Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

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