In the center of the recent Tribeca Film Festival scandal surrounding his film VAXXED stands Andrew Wakefield, discredited and stripped of his medical license for his infamous study suggesting a link between the MMR vaccine, bowel disease, and autism. THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST takes us into the inner sanctum of Wakefield as he fights for his day in court in a little known defamation case against the British Medical Journal. Wakefield attempts to clear his name as the media-appointed Father of the Anti-vaccine movement. 

From Director Sean Baker (TANGERINE) comes Cannes Film Festival official selection THE FLORIDA PROJECT, which tells the story of precocious six year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), who lives with her unemployed single mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) in an extended-stay motel on the outskirts of Disney World. Deemed "brilliant, buoyant and ultimately heart-wrenching" by New York Magazine, the film delves into improverished America through the eyes of Moonee and her friends, whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder and possibil..