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Help Fund The World's Most Comprehensive Documentary on Brexit

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UPDATE DEC 9: We blasted through our goal in two days and through our stretch goal of £90,000 in less than two weeks. Thank you! 


We're now in the process of making this documentary - booking and recording interviews, researching and collecting archive content. 


We don't want to miss anything, so if you have links to case studies, graphics, news or interview archive footage from the UK or Europe please share it with us at brexitdoc@byline.tv



Since its inception, Brexit has become one of the most critical and divisive issues in British politics. But how did it happen? And what is the real, substantive impact it's had on the UK?


That's what we want to examine in the most comprehensive documentary ever made about Brexit.

 
Byline TV has already travelled around the country reporting on the fallout from Brexit, and reached millions of viewers. Now we are going bigger, making the definitive record on Brexit - something that can be seen around the world and set the record straight. But we don’t have the money the BBC does or corporate donors, just you.


To make a comprehensive, unimpeachable, fifty minute, globally distributable documentary is expensive. We need around £50,000 to cover all the costs and you can read more about where that will go below. So please, help us make this vital, game changing documentary, and donate to the project.




We're looking to raise £50,000 to make a 50 minute documentary on Brexit, exploring the forces that made it happen, how it went wrong, the damage it's done and how we can come back from it.


Your donation will go towards equipment costs, travel for a crew around the UK and to Europe, research, location hire, video editing and motion graphics designers to make this the most comprehensive documentary on Brexit ever made.

Not only will all donors get to watch the finished documentary for free, but we're also offering the following perks depending on the amount donated.


£5: Your name in the credits

£100: An Associate Producer credit
£250: An Associate Producer credit, plus a virtual screening of the film with Mike and the team.
£500: An Executive Producer opening credit plus a private screening of the film
£1000: All of the above plus an intimate drinks reception with the team.

*Any repeat donations will be counted as one donation for the purpose of awarding perks. 


*BylineTV+ members will get access to the film included in their membership. Please donate today to receive donor perks.

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John

Brilliant idea. Best of luck.

Andrew Snelling

Elizabeth Bennett | £10.66

Steve | £26.21

Anonymous

I am a pensioner and am giving what little I can. But as each little can help, I think this is a vital to to tell this story and deal with the affects of this which affects the future of th UK and its relation to it European neighbours - and our relations to our European Brothers and Sisters. Brexit was a huge con job and it needs to be shown for that.

Bill Fraser

Judith Fournel | £26.21

Virginia Weegenaar

Matthew Foote

Martin Dobson

The truth is out there.

Nigel Jones | £26.97

UK citizens need to be told the truth about Brexit. It is only by acknowledging the negative impact of the hard Tory Brexit that we ended up with, that we can start to move the Nation in the right direction by developing more friendly, less confrontational ties with our near neighbours. Next step is is to negotiate a CU and SM deal. Once people see the benefit of easier trade and cooperation between the UK and EU, then, I think we can start to move towards re-joining. I'm 63, so probably not in my lifetime though.

Anna Cooper

Barbara Larder | £16.05

Carol

Really curious to see this doc with a few caveats. It needs to reveal how power really works in the UK, unflinching, naming names, naming newspapers, warts and all. Why did the whole country have to go down, just because one man wanted to be prime minister? What role did the vested interests play? Who made money from our exit? Etc. Suggestion: Brexit has a number of lines of enquiry - consider a doc series, maybe 4 parts? Not sure a 90 min one off doc will do the subject justice. Suggestion: let the final part focus on the aftermath of Brexit - the period we are currently in. Given that we can no longer blame Europe for our problems, we are in a period of reflection and regret. But is it really a final reckoning with reality, or are the vested interests just regrouping? Finally - hope you find an eye catching title. I am tempted to go with “The Bollocks of Brexit”. (Sorry to swear).

Ian | £21.03

Great stuff, really looking forward to seeing the actual reality of Brexit!

Ms Kate Swainson | £26.22

Yes - a documentary that needs to be made. Good luck and thank you.

. Pulse of Europe e.V. | £259.87

Let's see a United Europe as a vision of peace on our continent. This is so much more than purely economic advantages.

Marcus Milburn | £52.17

Gerard | £104.09

You are going great work exposing Brexit for what is is.

Craig | £26.22

So very excited you are doing this. The whole damn thing is heartbreaking and this will shine a light on just how damaging Brexit is. All the best for the production, cant wait to see it!

Stephen

If time permits, please touch upon how our overly adversarial and ultimately unrepresentative system of government in the UK led to the decisions that were taken by David Cameron that led to the decision to hold the referendum in the first place. Cameron's fear of losing a handful of seats to UKIP was what ultimately led him to make the promise of a referendum on an incredibly complex and interwoven situation, wholly unsuitable to be the subject of a binary plebiscite. There was (and always should be in any healthy democracy) a debate to be had over big issues such as the UK's relationships within and with the EU, however the place for that to happen should have been within the existing structures of our representative Parliamentary democracy. However much Europhiles may not like it, there are undoubtedly views amongst the general population that are diametrically opposed to those. Having MPs from political parties not currently represented in Parliament (UKIP, Green, 'hard left' etc.) as a result of a more proportionate electoral system would have been a minor concession to make to enable those voices to be heard explicitly in the heart of our democracy at Westminster rather than plastered on the side of a big red bus.

Keith | £26.41

Keep shining the torch where the others won't!

Maddalena | £26.21

Tracey Eva Edwards | £26.21

Thank you for Fighting The Good Fight against Brexit #RejoinEU

Willie Speirs | £10.64

Anonymous

Brexit and Trump were the same thing. The same dark forces working together with their 'dark money' against Democracy. The making of this documentary will be a definitive moment for the realisation of this Truth and should help with the healing of our collective PTSD both here and on the other side of the pond.

Nick Foster | £10.64

As an ex-advertising copywriter I could help creatively with formats, scripts etc. email: njw.foster@yahoo.co.uk

Joanna Sheldon | £26.22

Thank you! Just one thing: please don't use mood-influencing music like what you've used in the Help Fund the Flick clip above. Yech! Yech yech yech! Like a lot of other people I know, I don't want to be subjected to an attempt to rob me of my autonomy when it comes to reacting to what I'm looking at. Do you know what I mean? I hope you do.

Andrew

This so needs to be done. Time for the silent majority to be given its voice back.

Libby | £15.85

The untold damage done by brexit to UK science needs to be told and seen widely.