Hooked

Hooked

Hooked is a hard hitting four part documentary series that explores addiction, both the physical and the psychological, unearthing South African stories of struggle and triumph over the disease. The stories range from the horrifying to the salacious to the idiosyncratic.

Self-Mutilation is a disturbing documentary which explore the lives of three different mutilators, Jade; a young, sexually confused adolescent who tears his toenails out with pliers, Taine; a cold, calculating young woman who lacerates her arms and legs for emotional release and Laura their counselor who’s a recovering flesh-gouger.

Hermina’s Story delves into the world of food addiction and the emotional turmoil and dependency that surrounds it.

Bianca’s Story is as complex and intricate as the girl herself. She has dabbled in almost all forms of narcotics from coke to KAT, Tik and even heroine. As a seventeen-year-old runaway Bianca has become a skilled manipulator who weaves her life story together using so many different fragments of truth and lies it becomes impossible to identify what is truth.

Thabang’s story, follows a few days in the journey of Thabang, a petty criminal and a drug dealer, whose journey to recovery from alcoholic addiction