HOOKED by Max Emerson
Max Emerson is widely known for his popular Instagram account, which has garnered more than 770,000 followers worldwide. But now the social media influencer has gone behind the camera for his feature-film directorial debut, Hooked.
Written and directed by Emerson, Hooked tells the story of Jack (Conor Donally), a homeless queer teen who struggles in the dangerous world of sex work while seeking a better life with his boyfriend, Tom
Max has crowdsourced funds to get the film made. Half of the proceeds from the film will go to benefit not-for-profit organizations whose missions align with the cause.
“When I was younger, I had a lot of issues with some of the things I had seen in the gay community,” the 28-year-old told Billboard. I feel like it’s kind of eating itself alive in a lot of ways. So a lot of the things I wrote were in a response to that.”
“For the last couple years I’ve been doing the Instagram super-shameless comedy stuff to kind of build up a following so that I’d have a means of producing these things that mean more to me.”
Max has over 18 million views on YouTube! Last month, he discussed Hooked and Sobriety.
Max is currently based in Los Angeles, but spends more than half of his time in other cities around the world. Lucky him!
The movie is excellent!
Well written and well acted! HOOKED is available on DVD/VOD today! Please check it out on Itunes or any other pay-per-view VOD platform.
Watch trailer HERE
