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April 19, 2025 - Epoch Times
06:11
Mikki Willis on His New Film on the Vaccine-Injured, “Follow the Silenced”
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Tell me about Follow the Silenced.
So about four, over four years ago now, Steve Kirsch, who's become very well known in the freedom vaccine movement because he was a very wealthy entrepreneur who invented things like the optical mouse, right?
And so he's known as kind of a legend for innovation.
And he was very, very, very pro-vaccine, fiercely.
And the way he tells the story is his carpet cleaner.
Didn't show up.
And that was rare for this particular carpet cleaner.
And when he finally did show up, he said, I'm really sorry.
He said, my wife and I, I guess his face is ticking or whatever.
And he's like, we have this condition going on.
And he said, what?
How is it that you both could have a new condition?
Was this predatory or did you?
No, it just happened to both of us.
And he said, that's not common.
Like, what did you do recently?
And he said, well, it was right after the vaccine.
That's when Steve went, what?
He's fully vaccinated.
And he started to dig into it.
And then he called me a little over four years ago and he said, are you tracking all the injuries that are happening here?
Because they're being buried.
No one will listen to them.
And apparently there's a bunch of people who did all the trials, AstraZeneca.
Moderna and Pfizer and they know that they're injured and they had all the people that were doing the trials that some of them are in wheelchairs and breathing through tracheotomy instruments.
And I said, yeah, I'm getting a lot of those messages too.
I don't know what's going on there.
And he said, he goes, I'll kick in a little bit of money if you want to investigate this.
And so I said, okay, let's go.
So we started that four years ago and we've been on this film.
Without stop for four years.
We thought it'd be released in one year.
But it's perfect that it's coming out right now because quite honestly, I don't think people would even have paid attention to it three years ago.
It would have been written off as just another conspiracy theory.
But there's too many people now and people in powerful positions who have experienced their own myocarditis or whatever it is.
And so we took the film on.
I hired...
One of my top directors in my company, because I was already committed at the time I was making The Great Awakening, so I said I'm pretty tapped out as a director.
The Great Awakening is very complex, and I have a lot of research to do, but I will oversee it as kind of an executive director, and I'll bring Matthew Guthrie in, my top guy, and we'll do this thing justice.
And so here we are four years later.
It's a beautiful, powerful documentary.
Tragic. But also very inspiring, because it turns out to be a story of this group that formed that now call themselves React 19. I mean, it was hard.
Imagine being so trusting that they were excited to be the first in line.
And then they're confined to a wheelchair, and they're having spasms and seizures and nonverbal, whatever it is.
And then when they speak out about it, then they're...
Then the establishment tells everyone they're just a bunch of crazy people.
It's all in their head.
That's pretty much what all of them are told.
They have the same exact story that everyone just said.
It's in your head.
You're crazy.
And so they found each other.
Hundreds of them, thousands of them came together.
And then those Facebook groups and everything they formed would be shut down.
And they couldn't understand it.
Like, we're victims of this situation.
We follow the science.
We got harmed and now Facebook won't even let us have a group where we can talk to each other?
What is happening here in this country?
And so we have made this film to give them a voice and to make sure that their story and their sacrifice doesn't go unnoticed and that it's serious and that we understand moving forward as a people that it's probably not a good idea.
To ever succumb to anything experimental that could do us permanent damage.
I just want to say gratitude to the Santa Monica Film Festival, who's been very supportive of our work.
The Great Awakening won last year, and they've asked us to come back with the film this year.
And they chose to premiere it at the Directors Guild of America, which is pretty amazing because it's right in the Billy of the Beast in Hollywood, West Hollywood.
But we needed a bigger theater than they could.
I find in Santa Monica because there's such anticipation for this film.
REACT-19, I know, has actually helped so many people, helped support so many people that have had these injuries.
Fully volunteer-driven, it's actually quite a remarkable organization.
It is, yeah.
With really, truly incredible people.
The way that they've supported each other.
I tell you, I think many of them...
I wouldn't be here with us today if it weren't for this organization.
I think 80% of them said in their interviews that at some point they had all reached a point where they felt that death was an easier life than dealing with the injuries that they were dealing with.
But when they met each other, that all changed.
They talked each other off the ledge and said,"No, life is worth fighting for." And some of them have improved and some of them have not.
Some of them have gotten worse and probably will continue to do so and probably have a reduced lifespan as a result of this.
Not everyone has been injured, but that's the danger of when we start treating medicine as a one-size-fits-all situation.
It's got to be very personalized, and we have to understand how everybody responds.
Particularly to new technologies that have never been injected into the bloodstream in this way before.
It was very, very reckless.
And as you've had on your show many times, one of my dear friends, Robert Malone, as one of the inventors of mRNA technology, will say that's something that he never imagined they would have done with this thing that he was one of the inventors of.
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