Shot in the Arm Clip (2023) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Samoa Measles Outbreak

Powerful, cathartic, healing and timely SHOT IN THE ARM from Executive Producer Neil deGrasse Tyson (docu-series COSMOS and New York Times best-selling Author) and Academy Award Nominee Director Scott Hamilton Kennedy (THE GARDEN, FOOD EVOLUTION, FAME HIGH), is a much-needed call to our humanity. A Black Valley Films production, produced by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Mark Monroe (ICARUS, THE COVE), and Mark Steele (HOWL, THE INTERPRETERS), SHOT IN THE ARM, a critically renowned documentary world premiered earlier this year at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and will launch its theatrical release in New York City at the iconic Angelika Film Center on November 3, 2023, and in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Cinemas on November 17, offering insightful Q&A’s with filmmakers Neil deGrasse Tyson & Scott Hamilton Kennedy, before expanding to other markets across North America. In the spring of 2019, before anyone had heard of COVID-19, Kennedy began investigating a global measles epidemic and filming with top public health officials–including Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, MD; Karen Ernst; Dr. Paul A. Offit, MD; Dr. Peter J. Hotez, MD; Blima Marcus, DNP –as well as rare verite and interviews with anti-vaccine activists - like Robert Kennedy, Jr. (charting his part in Samoa's tragic measles outbreak of 2019 and as he continues to garner GOP funding for a Democrat presidential bid today), Andrew Wakefield, and Del Bigtree - who were persuading parents by the millions to refuse vaccines for their children. Then COVID-19 happened. Acting quickly, Kennedy shifted his directorial eye to this once-in-a-century tragedy, as his family was caught in the maelstrom of COVID-19. Both skeptical and hopeful, SHOT IN THE ARM explores the cultural zeitgeist of vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of the current COVID pandemic and how disinformation is its own disease. Can we replace cynicism with healthy curiosity and bridge the political divides that make us sick?