Knox Academy KWN make the headlines in the Edinburgh Evening News today... written by Laura Cummings, Education Reporter.

A HARD-HITTING documentary about knife crime produced by a group of Lothian school pupils is in line for a worldwide film prize.

Eight third-year pupils at Knox Academy in Haddington will join five other schools from across the globe at the awards ceremony of the Panasonic Kid Witness News (KWN) 2012 Global Contest, which will be held in London next month.

The teenagers’ four-minute documentary film, Think of Life Put Down the Knife, explored the issues around young people carrying knives, and saw the pupils interview Rev Cameron Mackenzie, who spent two years in jail as a young man after stabbing a rival in a gang fight.

He was later influenced by a spiritualist and eventually trained for the ministry. The former minister at the West Church in Haddington is now minister at the Tron Moredun and Gilmerton Church in Edinburgh.

He speaks about his troubled past in the film, as well as losing his younger brother to knife crime.... continued....

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