NMSU film students launch campaign to encourage stimulus donations to Camp Hope
Minerva Baumann
LAS CRUCES - A team of New Mexico State University student filmmakers is using the film medium to make a difference in the Las Cruces community.
The team shot a film and coupled it with a GoFundMe campaign in an effort to raise $10,000 in 45 days to fund one year of resources for 50 people at Camp Hope, which serves Las Cruces’ homeless population. The campaign, launched in late March, encourages the community to donate a portion of their stimulus checks to Camp Hope. In its first two weeks, the project has raised nearly $2,500.
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New Mexico State University’s Creative Media Institute not only teaches state-of-the-art filmmaking and animation techniques to make students marketable for jobs in the film and television industry, but one course is helping them use the tools of filmmaking to make a difference in the Las Cruces community.
“I think a lot of people think about the kinds of movies you see at the Allen Theaters, when they think of what it is we do as filmmakers and creating moving images for entertainment is definitely a big part of what we teach at CMI,” said Amy Lanasa, CMI professor and department head. “But film is also a medium that allows us to tell genuine human stories about complex societal problems, and it can be used as a catalyst for organizing, network-building and civic action.”
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