Always An Alternative

The aim of this project is to broaden the area they work within to raise awareness around knife crime and serious youth violence. They will address the issues that are associated with knife crime and serious youth violence by creating five documentaries.

These are:

1. Victims’ Family and Friends’ Voices. This will capture first-hand experience of living with the effects of losing someone due to knife crime
2. Victims’ Voice. This will involve talking to survivors of knife attacks to discuss their life-changing ordeal
3. Perpetrators. This will involve speaking with perpetrators to gain insight into why they did what they did, and if they would change their circumstances if they had the choice. This will be done with those who have left prison, via audio from inside prison, or letters sent from prison, using an actor to provide a voiceover
4. Family and Friends of Perpetrators. This will look at what it’s like to have a relative or friend in prison for stabbing someone
5. Interventions. In the final episode, they will visit services such as the police, councils, and community groups which run interventions in an attempt to reduce knife crime.