| # | Name | Position, Company | Comments |
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| 251 | EMMA WAKEFIELD | EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, LAMBENT PRODUCTIONS | DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE - a brilliant STORYVILLE film that changed the world and made the lives of many people better. There are countless films, like this, co-funded by STORYVILLE that have a unique place in British broadcasting.
Don't, please, cut the budget. It's what we all aspire to - a brilliant, inspirational strand.
Please let it continue so that it can co-fund creative international documentaries. |
| 252 | Anna Jones | Director | |
| 253 | Daniel Elliott | Director | |
| 254 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 255 | Catrina McHugh | Artistic Director Open Clasp Theatre Company | |
| 256 | J. Ross | C.G.S. | |
| 257 | Natalie Brady | Production Manager, Faction Films | |
| 258 | Clare Ruddock | PA | |
| 259 | sam | filmmaker | cutting storyville's budget is short sighted in the extreme. It consistently offers some of the most engaging television out there. Feature documentaries seem to be bigger than ever nowadays, yet may soon be gone from our screens altogther - madness. |
| 260 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 261 | Sam Blair | student, NFTS | |
| 262 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 263 | Ilian Metev | Documentary student at the National Film and Television School | Supporting Storyville is of cultural necessity. It is a platform of communication for those who believe in life´s beauty, who record it as they see it and who most importantly attempt to spiritually enrich an audience. |
| 264 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 265 | Jules Williamson | Director | Storyville is invaluable as an insight into the stories and lives that are overlooked by television in it's current output and as educational and enlightening insight into alternative worlds. This is what life is about and if the BBC wants to narrow their vision and limit people's viewing then it will not be filling their remit and will be leaving broadcasting in a pitiful state. The BBC must not continue to de-value documentaries and documentary makers. |
| 266 | Julie Ballands | Education and Outreach Officer, Tyneside Cinema | The best and most innovative documentary strand on television - please don't mess with it. |
| 267 | Ben Greener | Education, Tyneside Cinema | save storyville. Why not cancel Casualty instead? |
| 268 | Mike Tait | Education & Outreach, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne | |
| 269 | Quey Craddock | Marketing Officer, Tyneside Cinema | |
| 270 | anwar boulifa | faction films | what a travesty! |
| 271 | DOUBLET CHRISTINE | PRODUCER | |
| 272 | Mike Dodds | Lecturer, Digital Video Production, Thames Valley University | Broadcasters have been chipping away for years at the single documentary output. The 'Fine-Cut' and 'Storyville' strands, eased into late night slots and onto minority channels as they were, at least preserved the integrity of the genre - now this is under threat! We must lobby hard! |
| 273 | Oliver Marchant | Unemployed | Disgraceful. There should be more like it not less. If the BBC is willing to pay money to sodding Alisdair Campbell & his pathetic, tedious, self-serving highlight free drivel & not Storyville then there is something seriously wrong with BBC thinking. If it continues to pusue lowest common denominator programming & ratings what is the licence fee for? ITV has the same remit & i8s commercial. At this rate so should the BBC. |
| 274 | Toby Marchant | Student | |
| 275 | Kim Spence | Script Writing Student | Imperative that the good work continues. Documentary work is essential. |
| 276 | Gavin MacFadyen | Freelance Director / Producer | |
| 277 | Andre Singer | CEO West Park Pictures | |
| 278 | Sian Johns | PM Ricochet | |
| 279 | Karin Farnworth | NFTS | |
| 280 | Alex Archer | editor | |
| 281 | vanessa Stockley | NFTS student | As a young documentary maker just starting her career, storyville is one of the few strands on television that gives me real hope for the future. If strands like this are cut there is a danger that all TV will slowly become the same mindless, unformative crap that already takes up so much of televison air time. This is not only a disaster for film makers who are determined to make films that can have a true impact on people. But also for the general public many of whom rely mainly on television for information and learning. I believe that televison (especially the BBC) has a huge responsibility to insure that they show enlightening programmes that can enhance people's minds rather than destroy them. |
| 282 | Hal Branson | Tyneside Cinema | |
| 283 | Frances Collinson | Norfolk | Why not cut the budget of the deplorable, dumbed-down BBC1 6 o'clock news instead? Newsreaders giving non-news stories in conversational, chatty, style and simpering over babies and sad stories. The BBC news is appalling nowadays. |
| 284 | David Martin | Development Producer, Tigerlily Films | |
| 285 | Quinton Smith | Managing Director | I saw 'Why We Fight' (a superb study of the US military/industrial complex) as part of the Storyville strand a couple of weeks ago.
This type of television cannot be allowed to die, as happened with the BBC's '40 Minutes' strand a few years ago.
There is a dearth of intelligent 'think-piece' factual documentary on all channels at the moment, in favour of Celeb-driven, lifestyle-based PAP!
The death of Storyville would be another nail in the coffin of objective television documentary making...we would be very much the poorer for its demise. |
| 286 | Tom Higham | Tyneside Cinema | |
| 287 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 288 | Paul Langston | Account Director, Video-C Limited | |
| 289 | Ana Smith | The Script Factory | |
| 290 | Maya Sanbar | Producer / Director | |
| 291 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 292 | Anonymous | Anonymous | the national and international reputation for a program of excellent documentaries should forbid the bbc to make any cuts in funding storyville. |
| 293 | liran atzmor | producer director belfilms | We need you Nick, Jo and Storyville to continue to make international films with your ambitious and brave support. |
| 294 | sabine pusch | freelance | |
| 295 | Edi Smockum | Head, Shortcourses@NFTS | |
| 296 | Rowena Jeffreys-Jones | Assistant Producer, BBC Scotland | |
| 297 | Nynke Brett | Director | |
| 298 | Ben Whitham | Admissions Assistant | |
| 299 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 300 | Nick Higgins | Director, Lansdowne Productions | In the UK, we all know that Storyville is pretty much the only slot left for creative authored documentaries. To restrict it therefore, to purely acquisitions is not only to deny a voice to UK & international filmmakers but to impoverish our culture as whole. |