ABOUT THE PROJECT
LOGLINE
Mark McKinnon and Kahlil Greene team up to explore how new technology, social media pundits, and a first-time voting group—Gen Z, decided the presidential election.
SYNOPSIS
THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT is co-hosted by Mark McKinnon, political strategist and creator of Showtime’s hit political documentary series, The Circus and the “Gen Z Historian,” Kahlil Greene. Greene, Yale’s first Black student body president, won a Peabody Award for his TikTok work.
On the ground in Pennsylvania, a key state in the 2024 election, Mark and Kahlil weave through Gen Z, a cohort that came of age grounded in childhood homes due to Covid, experienced active shooter drills at school, worries that the environment is at a tipping point, and watches as an increasingly old conservative Supreme Court rolls back women’s reproductive rights. As they scroll through TikTok news, their anxiety about losing jobs to AI soars as does their rage at racist police responses at home, and a war financed by the US government abroad.
THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT explores how Gen Z made their decisions, and what this portends for the future. This fascinating age group appeared divided with men far more likely to support Donald Trump than they did four years ago, while women overwhelmingly supported Kamala Harris. But the actual truth here is far more nuanced.
Why did Gen Z vote the way they did? THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT is a feature documentary that will examine the frustrations and hopes of a generation being labeled as the most anxious ever recorded, a generation that ingests news and information in ways unthought of twenty years ago. A generation borne into a time of chaos and disillusionment, that is now a mystery wrapped in an enigma to everyone looking from the outside in. To understand where the nation is going, we must understand where these 18-25-year-olds will take us.
To have a sense of our future, we must appreciate our most recent past.
PROJECT TYPE Documentary Feature
DIRECTOR James D. Stern
PRODUCER Endgame Entertainment, Alldayeveryday
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