vacca - a scripted series on the life of edward jenner, inventor of the vaccine that saved the world

Jenner: A life

Writer Peter McSweeney had been working on the Vacca project for over three years when he was introduced to Stephen Robert Morse and Max Peltz in the summer of 2020. The trio agreed: this project had to get made!

Morse on Jenner

“Max and I committed ourselves to looking for unique ways in to the greatest topics of our times. When we read McSweeney’s script and saw how painfully relevant Jenner’s lone wolf journey was in the 18th Century, we knew we had to get in.”

Peltz: What’s next?

Peltz says, “We are confident that Covid’s legacy will be upon our world for decades as it altered how every person on earth lives. We want to pay tribute to the man who created the first vaccine, against all odds, whom we have to thank for our lives today.”