Meet the Ojai dad who made the most notorious piece of coronavirus disinformation yet

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The strange story behind the most notorious video of the coronavirus era

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Willis says he met Mikovits, who has a high profile in the anti-vaccine movement, a year ago through mutual friends and was impressed by her. When news surrounding the pandemic began to grow increasingly alarming, he felt “there were just so many things that didn’t add up.” He reached out to Mikovits to get her scientific opinion and ended up asking her if she would do a sit-down interview. “There was zero funding,” Willis said.

“I had a profound experience on the rubble of the World Trade Center that led me to leave my traditional work in Hollywood and to do the best I could to film events and people and ideas that make the world a better place,” he said. On publicly available financial documents, the foundation listed among its unpaid board of directors spiritual leader Michael Beckwith, who heads the nondenominational Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles, and prominent yoga teacher and author Shiva Rea.But reached by The Times, Rea said that while she considers Willis and Salamanca friends and served as an emcee at the 2008 Elevate Film Festival, she was unaware her name had been used in connection with their foundation.

In the wake of the release of “Plandemic,” Willis says he was contacted by -- and rebuffed -- an independent producer who has made projects with HBO, Netflix and Amazon about a potential deal to try to release the project on one of those platforms. Individuals familiar with the acquisition pipeline at HBO and Amazon said that the companies had not expressed interest in the film.At this point, Willis says he is unsure if he will follow through with a full-length “Plandemic” documentary.

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