An inside look of an addict's life and recovery.

Copyright to Nicolas DeSarno, all rights reserved

Winning video of TVT Competition 2015


The video that I am submitting from Franklin Regional Senior High School, is a “Documentary on Heroin”, the audience for this video are teenagers through adult. This disease effects everyone, no matter what the age. My objective for this video is to raise awareness on how the usage of heroin doesn't just effect the addict, but it also effects everyone around the addict. I have a very personal experience with addiction to heroin, my cousin passed away due to an over dose with the drug after being clean for seven months. I just wanted to have a way for people who have made it through the process of getting sober to be able to share their story and help people who are dealing with addiction because they are not alone and people will be there to support them. The process that I went through to create this documentary is: I called a young man from the House of Principles in West Palm Beach Florida, and he helped me get the interviews of the recovered and recovering addicts. I also went to downtown Pittsburgh to film all of the videos for my b-rolls over the interviews and stories. After those were done my aunt who has lost her son due to heroin told her story and my cousin who lost her brother due to heroin told her story as well. Everything in this video is copyright to me.