‘We tried to follow good rules of journalism,’ she told me. ‘We had lawyers in California who vetted the film for “fair use” for archive but also libel issues – they had 30 points of inquiry in the film but we had all the back-up information for them. So we got our “opinion letter” to qualify for errors and omissions insurance. Everything we discuss in the film is known – either revealed through the Twitter files scandal or the Senate subcommittee hearings.’
Indeed the film sticks to what is known and does not dive into ‘conspiracy’ theories. The average person will be able to follow the film easily through the two storylines of lockdowns and the reported origins of the virus, and that is who the film is for. Vanessa deliberately hasn’t gone into who and what was behind it, whether it was a pandemic at all, or a hoax for other purposes. It isn’t speculation about ‘motives’, the existence or not of a grand plan, nor an investigation of the background shenanigans of CEPI, EcoHealth Alliance, Johns Hopkins, DARPA and so on and their overlapping actors.