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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."