Hello,

I'm a university student studying documentary film making and I would like to make a documentary on the escort/punter subculture here in the UK.

I'd like to portray a positve, non-biased view of an escorts life, and hopefully knock down some stereotypes and bring clarity to what I believe is mass media driven stigma.

It would be an interview to a camera if you're comfortable with your face being shown, alternatively we could correspond by email first to build some trust, and if necessary blur out your face/use a mask. What is most important is the content. If you have something to say, if you have something you want to convey about your work please get in touch, we live in an un-enlightened world, and it is time light was shed on this industry that wasn't essentially propaganda that plays on people's own base thoughts.

If so please either message me privately on here, or comment on this thread. Even if you are uninterested, I'm eager to see opinions on whether you'd be either curious to see such a film or not, and reasons and misgivings in regards to that.

Thank you for reading this, I look forward to hopefully some replies.

- Eyeline.

Yes - Eyeline, assuming you've read this thread already we'll start with you supplying a proper email address (rather than the free Gmail you've used to register) as well as details of your course and who will be supervising this. We have vulnerable people here, and random internet strangers materialising and announcing they want to film us because it'll be really great doesn't cut it. Where will this film be shown and to whom?

I'm sure most of us will also be interested to know what you will be offering by way of renumeration, since I don't imagine you were seriously expecting people for whom time literally is money to come along and participate just for the fun of it.

See also:

http://www.saafe.info/main/index.php?topic=25380.0 and - as completely bizarre now as it was at the time - http://www.saafe.info/main/index.php?topic=16584.0

Id be interested to know what the "escort/punter subculture is" 

Lovely. So when you say 'paid for your time,' you do mean at our usual escort hourly rate?

Has your proposal been submitted to your university Ethics Committee and what was the outcome please?

I'm pitching it today to a panel at my university, and then submitting it to the ethics board Monday, will keep you guys posted on the outcome -
Shaan

Why don't you interview punters and make a documentary on "men who pay for sex" (for a change). Just go into a punter forum and ask them to "be interviewed infront of a camera and if they feel comfortable with their face being shown".

Much more interesting idea.

I wonder why