SAVE STORYVILLE FROM EXTINCTION

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1. 151
   Name: David Clews on Jul 30, 2007

   Position, Company: Producer/Director - Blast Films

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2. 152
   Name: Marie Natanson on Jul 30, 2007

   Position, Company: independent prooducer

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3. 153
   Name: Anonymous on Jul 30, 2007

   Position, Company: October Films

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4. 154
   Name: Lucy Wilson on Jul 30, 2007

   Position, Company: BBC, International licensing

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5. 155
   Name: Grant McKee on Jul 30, 2007

   Position, Company: Freelance exec

   Comments: It should barely need to be said that there a thousand other ways the BBC could better save the money involved; that Storyville should be enhanced not stripped bare; that this is what public service broadcasting is all about.

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6. 156
   Name: Ross Whitaker on Jul 30, 2007

   Position, Company: Producer/Director, Street Films Ireland

   Comments: Storyville is a trailblazer, more of a vision of the future than the past. The recent upsurge in creative documentaries in the cinema and at festivals shows that there is a market for real films of feature length and it is vital that Storyville continues to be a central force in the development of these remarkable films.

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7. 157
   Name: Dr Tim Hall on Jul 30, 2007

   Position, Company: Senior lecturer in International Politics, University of East London

   Comments: Storyville is quite simply the best documentary series on British television - as good as anything in the past 25 years. The slashing of it's budget by bbc bean-counters is all too predictable and sad. Some people in the bbc should wake up to the fact that *the very point of their jobs* is to protect and nuture creative spaces like this. Its absolutely mind-numbing that this is even being contemplated.

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8. 158
   Name: Charlie Radclyffe on Jul 30, 2007

   Position, Company: Retired

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9. 159
   Name: David Gurman on Jul 30, 2007

   Position, Company: Editor, The Rider's Digest

   Comments: I think it is outrageous that at a time when TV programming seems to be heading for the lowest common denominator and the BBC is paying ridiculous money to "stars" like Jonathon Ross, that they shold be considering cutting funding to one of the few areas in which they are currently still able to set a positive example.

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10. 160
    Name: David on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Cumming

    Comments: I really despair. Quality programming is being shunted to the nether regions of the digital listings to make way for Pay As You View rubbish like DanceX and Baby Ballroom. I remember being bored to death as a child at the mundane, serious stuff that I would now love to watch as an adult. As it is, if I can't vote for the outcome of something I start getting shakes and twitches!

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11. 161
    Name: Maureen Judge on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Makin' Movies Inc.

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12. 162
    Name: Lukasz on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Entrepreneur

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13. 163
    Name: Dr Henry Potts on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Lecturer, UCL

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14. 164
    Name: Bernd Wilting on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: managing director, taglicht media GmbH

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15. 165
    Name: S Michniewicz on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Book designer

    Comments: As if we don't have enough rubbish on our televisions, how can the BBC seriously cut the funding of the one area they are streets ahead of the competition

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16. 166
    Name: Rebecca Lloyd-evans on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: producer, RISE films

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17. 167
    Name: Tom Herington on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Assistant Editor

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18. 168
    Name: Helena Appio on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Creative Executive, Shine

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19. 169
    Name: Anonymous on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Student

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20. 170
    Name: C. Cay Wesnigk on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: CCW Film

    Comments: fog in the channel, continent isolated!

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21. 171
    Name: Stuart Bamforth on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Director (freelance)

    Comments: Despite being a BAFTA-winning director, it is already almost impossible to get any of my single-doc ideas commissioned. Without Storyville, i might as well give up completely (and sign up for the next soul-sapping series of Big Brother!)

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22. 172
    Name: Robert Adams on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Independent film-maker

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23. 173
    Name: Robin Benger on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: cogent/benger Productions

    Comments: stay the hand Storyville's important and valuable.

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24. 174
    Name: Ben Lewis on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Bergmann Pictures Ltd

    Comments: The BBC needs to work out new ways of promoting and distributing its best programmes, of which Storyville is the prime example, instead of lazily blaming low ratings on subject matter and film-maker.

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25. 175
    Name: James Leigh on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Freelance Shooting Director

    Comments: Storyville is one of the countries best documentary strands bringing real life to the screens in an unparallelled way. It would be a disgrace for it's budget to be slashed by so much.

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26. 176
    Name: Kathrine Bancroft on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Associate Producer, Bergmann Pictures

    Comments: I am currently hard at work on a Storyville and concur with everything that has been said on this petition already. Much was made at this years BAFTA's about the need for and importance of single documentaries and for the Beeb to consider slashing its Storyville output seems to make no sense at all. People want singles, people want to make them...its not rocket science.

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27. 177
    Name: Fiona O'Doherty on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Producer, Ben Lewis.tv

    Comments: 'to view the lives of those around us for the likes of which will never be seen again'. Storyville, gives the public the opportunity to share some of the worlds most hidden stories. Without which these films simply won't get made. Is this Public Service making quality programming unobtainable for all

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28. 178
    Name: Alison Parker on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Staff Nurse, GRI

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29. 179
    Name: Brian Woods on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: True Vision

    Comments: British Television rightly has a reputation for producing the best documentaries in the world. At a time when ITV has given up making serious doucmentary, and Channel Four is increasingly focussing on Factual Entertainment, it is downright irresponsible for the BBC to be undermining one of the only remaining outlets for quality international docs.

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30. 180
    Name: Robin Gutch on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Joint MD, Warp X Ltd

    Comments: Storyville is a beacon of creative integrity at a time when confidence in 'truth' on television is in crisis. The strand exemplifies many aspects of the BBC's stated commitment to public value in return for the licence fee. Once cut back the next stage of 'debate' will be that the strand is slipping from audience recognition, to justify death by a thousand cuts. The decision seems to lose a lot for audiences and film makers for relatively little financial gain.

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31. 181
    Name: Max Baring on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Series Producer and Director

    Comments: If not Storyville then where

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32. 182
    Name: Kashfi Halford on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: film maker

    Comments: I think storyville is one of the last remaining strands for independent documentary, and it would be a tragedy and mistake to stop it.

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33. 183
    Name: Faye Hamilton on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Researcher, Blast Films

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34. 184
    Name: Murray Kelso on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Freelance writer

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35. 185
    Name: Sonja Henrici on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Producer, Scottish Documentary Institute

    Comments: Storyville is at the centre of creative documentary commissioning in the UK, and hence crucial for British documentary filmmakers - and audiences alike. Save Storyville!

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36. 186
    Name: Daniel Pageon on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Director Actors World Production Limited

    Comments: BBC documentaries are admired all over the world and we have made a number of foreign versions of them, it would be a great loss to the BBC in particular and Great Britain as whole.

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37. 187
    Name: Abigail on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: student

    Comments: Storyville produces brilliant and important documentaries which you do not find anywhere else on British television. The budget to make these films must not be cut, it would be a crime to do this.

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38. 188
    Name: John Owen on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: director

    Comments: I have worked in TV in India for ten years. People all over Asia hold the BBC and the documentary strands they broadcast with such high regard because the multi channel environment,lead by News Corps Star TV, is about as dumbed down as you can get. Dont let it go. The world is watching, it really is.

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39. 189
    Name: Romey Macdonald on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Runner, Technicolor

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40. 190
    Name: Anonymous on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: UEL

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41. 191
    Name: Susannah Herbert on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Sunday Times

    Comments: Storyville makes great documentaries. Don't kill it.

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42. 192
    Name: Arun Kumar on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Film Director, Soma Films Ltd

    Comments: I hope the BBC reconsider this decision as Storyville is the jewel in the crown of their documentary output. It will be a great shame and terrible for viewers if the proposed cuts go ahead. I especially feel for Nic Fraser who has put so much into making Storyville a strand for director led films.

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43. 193
    Name: Francesca Gavin on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: writer

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44. 194
    Name: Maja Borg on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Film maker

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45. 195
    Name: Daniel Pemberton on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Composer

    Comments: British TV can be an amazing. Unfortunately it is getting increasingly less and less so. The only time i have bothered to complain to the BBC was when i saw the Storyville Chavez: Inside The Coup. This was one of the most amazing documentaries I think i've ever seen and i caught it completely by chance. It was on BBC4 at 11.30pm. The night before i had seen some goddamn awful Alan Yentob film on how Briitsh sitcoms were 'making it' because one of the American studios had bought Coupling. Wow. It was a rubbish documentary, yet heavily advertised, trailed and put on BBC1 at a decent hour. The Storyville film was not. I was so angry that i only came across this film by chance, and a very slim one at that too. I luckily videoed it by mistake and that tape is one of my most cherished possesions. It has travelled through lots of people's hands and influenced and affected everyone who saw it. Can anyone say the same thing about that Imagine episode Or most other things on the beeb at the moment Long live Storyville!

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46. 196
    Name: Craig on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Director, Light Bulb Festival 08

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47. 197
    Name: Mike Chamberlain on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: MD

    Comments: It would be tragic if Britain was to lose its premiere creative documentary slot; Storyville. Combining as it does the best in world documentary with the best in British documentary, it is unique and quite beautiful. Not only that, but by finding funds from around the world to back all its documentary hunches it is extremely good value for money for the BBC. Very cheap, with being cheap at all. The strand is known around the world for its strength of purpose and vision and it is a flagship both for the BBC and for exciting, innovative and meaningful documentaries the world over. Please don't let the bean-counters close the last door on creative documentary in Britain.

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48. 198
    Name: Jenny Hanson on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Sprouted Wolf Productions

    Comments: I look forward to the great work of Storyville - so please keep it alive.

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49. 199
    Name: Karl Liegis on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Assistant Director

    Comments: I find it absurd that a programe that continues to justify the existence of documentaries. From travelling the globe for stories, to observing subjects for serious periods of time Storyville is a quality project that will undoubtedly suffer from such dramatic cuts...it would take me about 30 seconds to think of a better cause for the cuts.

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50. 200
    Name: Vicky Mohieddeen on Jul 30, 2007

    Position, Company: Freelance Director/ Editor

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