| # | Name | Position, Company | Comments |
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| 201 | Anonymous | Anonymous | Please don't cut Storyville - it's so good. Cut one of those ridiculous celebrity dancing programmes instead and remember that you are in fact the BBC not ITV! |
| 202 | Liz Mermin | independent director | If the BBC wants its non-fiction programming to become as predictable, inward-looking, and disdainful of the public as everything on the air elsewhere, killing Storyville is a great way to do it. |
| 203 | David Cairns | director, Forged Films | What is the BBC for? Wall-to-wall "funography" on BBC3, devoid of any merit, making the world uglier, or quality broadcasting that justifies the license fee. Save Storyville! |
| 204 | Heidi Vilkman | director, BlueyedBoy Films | Please stop from BBC from declining into a bad reality TV channel and make them ashamed that the roots of this public channel are being destroyed in such callous manner. If the cuts need to be made, surely there are other, more meaningless slots to do that with, rather than one like Storyville, through which one can actually learn something about the world. |
| 205 | mark cousins | Director, 4 Way Pictures | Storyville is the best documentary strand of programmes anywhere in the world. It is distinctive and innovative. The BBC's reputation rests on Storyville and things like it. To cut its budget would be barbaric. If this is true, shame, shame, shame on the BBC for its lack of vision. |
| 206 | Anonymous | Anonymous | I am shocked to hear that such budgetary cuts are being considered for Storyville.
Documentaries, especially home grown documentaries are so important in highlighting a range of issues and there needs to be a diverse choice of organisations to go to for funding, broadcasting etc.
By choosing to make these cuts it would drive up and coming talent out of the country l suspect.
it is not wise to depend on other tv departments to be commissioning docs because they have their own remits and agendas which may not be applicable to the docs that indies want to make.
Please do not make these cuts.
Regards
Anon film maker. |
| 207 | Anonymous | Anonymous | Acting in an unofficial capacity as a signatory of this position, I urge the Corporation to think again and to retain a significant spend on Storyville. |
| 208 | Donal Haughey | Director, Hawkeye Films | No! No! No! Storyville is too respected, important and in this cruddy world of celebrity and gloss we so badly need the its flame to shine on and on! |
| 209 | David Herman | Producer, TeleScope International | Commitment, excellence, quality? Nope. The BBC is becoming yet another seller in the polyester carpet bazaar. What a shame. |
| 210 | Jane White | independent | |
| 211 | Anonymous | Anonymous | At last year's docfest, Jana Bennett indicated that the observational documentary was of decreasing importance for the BBC's audience, which would be 'served' by factual entertainment. Hardly a surprise then that the BBC has got itself in such a mess over the RDF trailer farrago. There is an essential contribution to public value from the likes of Storyville. This is a disgrace. |
| 212 | Sasha Djurkovic | Director, free lancer | |
| 213 | Matt Hulse | Film Maker | What? Have you gone mad? Don't do it! Please. |
| 214 | Eleanor Leone | N/A | |
| 215 | Benjamin Putland | Editor | Storyville is the only place left for intelligent, thought provoking television. If it goes there will be no reason to switch on anymore. |
| 216 | joshua portway | artist | |
| 217 | Marvin Belle | Editor in Chief - Directors Notes | |
| 218 | Jason Hall | Teebster Ltd | Storyville is the first thing to look for in the TV schedules and the last remaining slot of consistently high quality programming on any channel or network. I am stunned to learn that the current budget for such an amazing strand is an already paltry £2.2m. And - given the incredible value that this investment represents - I am appalled the BBC could think for a moment that Storyville is a suitable candidate for further cost savings of any kind - let alone slashing the budget to such a frightening degree. This *cannot* happen. |
| 219 | Dave Banks | Producer, Eyeconic | To Whom It May Concern,
“Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.” -William S Burroughs
Please support Storyville.
Cheers,
Dave Banks |
| 220 | Tom Shakespeare | writer, documentarist | |
| 221 | Peter Chinn | Producer/Director | You don't know what you've got til its gone. |
| 222 | Anonymous | Anonymous | The BBC must demonstrate true public service commitments by continuing to support such an award-winning, outward-looking and ultimately important strand as 'Storyville'. |
| 223 | van messel | ceo first hand films | "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
- Walt Disney
Storyville is smart, ambitious entertainment. We like. |
| 224 | Ilo von Seckendorff | Programme Assistant, DOK Leipzig | |
| 225 | Jo Clarkson | Subtitler | Don't let documentary become a thing of the past. |
| 226 | Nick Gray | Producer/Director | The BBC must care for preserving its cultural heritage. Storyville shows the kind of documentaries that play a role informing the electorate in a modern democratic state. Please take steps to ensure Storyville's future. |
| 227 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 228 | Fleur Knopperts | Sheffield Doc/Fest | |
| 229 | Yulie Cohen Gerstel | Filmmaker | as one the directors (out of the UK) who produced her work with a huge support of storyville's Nick Fraser, this threat is very very sad and going at the same downhill direction of the civilized world... what a shame. |
| 230 | christian banfield | MD, schmick.TV | dont do it! this country cannot stand any more dumbing down... |
| 231 | Roger Crittenden | NFTS | Storyville is one of the few remaining bastions of serious independent documentary on British TV. It should be protected not slashed. |
| 232 | Nasrin Ahmadi | Community Integration Worker | i am not agree with cutting down the fund for Storyville |
| 233 | Victory Ekregbesi | Student | |
| 234 | Antoine Monot, Jr. | Zurich Film Festival | Don't do it! Please! |
| 235 | kim longinotto | vixen films | |
| 236 | Alix Lowe | Researcher | |
| 237 | David Green | Editor, Newcastle University | Please do not cut Storyville, there is little enough space as it is for British documentary film-makers to air their work. Compared with other EU countries, I believe we are a nation force-fed daily with large quantaties of trash TV. Let's keep the substance of the documentary format on our screens and allow the heart and soul of the country a voice amidst the otherwise chaotic cacophony of rubbish. |
| 238 | Dr James Sweeney | Lecturer, Durham University Department of Law | Don't lose quality shows like this. When times are tricky the BBC must play to its strengths, and this is one of them. |
| 239 | Andy Lie | Chair, People to People North East | Given the state of British education today, this is another fatal step in producing an ignorant, but money-grabbing selfish, generation. |
| 240 | osama | director olive tree films | |
| 241 | Ben Kempas | Filmmaker, expressive.tv. and Co-Host, The D-Word | The D-Word supports this campaign, but we think we should all be writing real letters. Signing an online petition may be too easy, too anonymous. And this is serious. |
| 242 | Ian Reid | Director Autonomi Ltd | |
| 243 | Tom Collinson | Freelance Director | |
| 244 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 245 | Roger T.Mundangepfupfu | NERS | Please keep documentaries. |
| 246 | David Briggs | Assistant Producer, BBC Scotland | |
| 247 | Simon Aylward | librarian, National Film & TV School | |
| 248 | simon chambers | freelancer | it's the only thing i watch on TV, so if this goes i will get rid of my TV |
| 249 | Ros Ereira | Producer | |
| 250 | Lee Hill | Writer | Storyville is one of the few places on the BBC where innovative documentaries are still allowed to flourish. I would encourage management to increase not cut its budget and find ways to get more people to see the strand's output |