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Channel 4 Learning
Originally broadcast
15 November 2005, Channel 4

Executive Producer
David Dugan

Filmed, Produced
& Directed by
Nicola Wilding

Assistant Producer
Clayton Smith


Narrated by
Jemina Nilan

The Cutting Club

One in ten teenagers will self-harm by the time they're 16. The Cutting Club follows the lives of a group of teenagers and young adults from 14 to 21 who all have one thing in common: they cut. This is the ultimate survival guide for Self Harmers made by young people for young people.

Nia's 14 and she's running out of excuses for the marks on her arms. She has to come clean  when her dad threatens to put down the family cat. Abigail is 15, she comes home from school one day to find her hidden stash of razors gone and all hell breaks loose. Natalie's  trying to give up but its hard to resist the urges when you know you've got a blade stashed in the back of your mobile phone for emergencies..

This is a frank and intimate portrait of  self-injury  showing  how it impacts on the lives of  families and friends as well as sufferers themselves.

 

 

"The Cutting Club is a frank and intimate portrait of self-injury, told by young people that cut, burn or deliberately injure themselves…Through interviews and video diaries, this documentary follows the troubled lives of teenagers and young adults."


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