Major Project: Organising Contributors: Jan Cunliffe

Today, Jack and I decided to give Jan Cunliff a call to co firm her interview date and just run over a few things. We did ask if she thought Jordan would be willing to speak in our documentary but she immediately rejected the idea as Jordan wants to remain anomalous and start again as he is near the end of his sentence and looks nothing like he did when he was a kid. This is completely understandable and we fully respect Jordans wishes to not speak. We could have potentially pushed for an anomalous blackout interview similar to what we test shot but realized that pushing so much can cause more issues and potentially even lose the contributors trust and with such a sensitive subject it wasn't fair to keep pursuing, especially when Jan was so adamant. Losing Jan as a contributor would be detrimental to our documentary. Besides from this, I believe seeing the justice system failings through a mother's eyes creates a different understanding, especially when Jan is fighting so hard for her son's innocence. She will talk about the 'suicide pact' her and her boys had which will touch the hearts of many viewers who can sympathize or even empathize with her pain. Since we have Liam and Eddie talking from their points of view anyway we already achieve that first person impact and interviewing Jordan himself wouldn't necessarily bring anything new to the table.






This telephone update turned out to also be beneficial for another reason. Jan informed us that her and 50 or so other people will be attending a march outside the Ministry of Justice on the 18th March. In terms of actuality, this would be great content, and we asked to come along and film this for our documentary, which she has agreed to.

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