Movies by Shawney Cohen

Fentanyl: The Drug Deadlier Than Heroin

Fentanyl: The Drug Deadlier Than Heroin

VICE presents an immersive and personal feature film about the fentanyl crisis in Canada told from the perspective of a community of drug users.

Bloodlust: Tournament of Death

Bloodlust: Tournament of Death

Damian Abraham goes to Delaware to get an inside look at one of the most violent forms of professional wrestling in the world. Deathmatch is an ultra-violent style of wrestling that includes makeshift weapons, light bulb tubes, and barbed wire to ensure a maximum amount of bloodletting.

The Manor

The Manor

An intimate portrayal of a peculiar Jewish family running a small town strip club, while attempting to nurse their relationships and themselves back to health.

DOPESICK: Fentanyl's Deadly Grip

DOPESICK: Fentanyl's Deadly Grip

This VICE feature film follows the lives of people in Alberta, Canada, affected by the powerful opioid drug fentanyl. The underlying source of the fentanyl crisis in the country goes back to 2012, when the notorious prescription painkiller OxyContin was pulled from pharmacy shelves in lieu of a "safer" alternative called OxyNeo. In response to the change, counterfeit fentanyl disguised as fake OxyContin pills started popping up, proliferated, and ended up sparking a full-on crisis in the country-with Canada's west becoming a major epicenter.