Matt Mindell

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.

This tongue-in-cheek, deconstructionist mockumentary from writer/director Chris Caccioppoli (East of Hollywood, The Loving Dead, The Cocks of the Walk), takes a comedic look at the varying ideologies around those who opted-out of the vaccine. Playing off the prevalent conspiracy theory, the comedy is set in a world where a microchip planted in the vaccine causes the body to shut down in a "blue scream of death," killing everyone on the planet except the ant-vaxxers. The film follows seven neighboring survivors as they selfishly navigate a post-apocalyptic world. The subjects include a religious zealot (Matt Mindell), a dooms-day prepper (James Morgan), an environmentalist (Natalia Borges), an actor who feared the vaccine's cosmetic side effects (Manoli Ioannidis), a workaholic who was too busy to get vaccinated (Llewellyn Connolly), and a gamer who was too lazy to make an appointment (Jasmine Cornielle).

The films contains travel footage, reaction interviews, archival background and licks of music. The director Matt Mindell divides time between reporting on his tour of the Warsaw Ghetto and camps (Majdanek, Auschwitz, Terezin) with a group, and ceding the stage to an 81-year-old survivor, Leo Zisman, who recounts to visitors his experiences facing down Nazis.