Good art springs from the 鈥渉orrible inclemency of life,鈥� Aldous Huxley said, and two young filmmakers at the 麻豆视频 personify his point. Their work鈥攚hich tackles the human toll of depression and drug addiction鈥攊s being supported in part by a university-sponsored pilot program in crowdfunding.
Crowdfunding draws small contributions from large numbers of people to finance projects or campaigns. Crowdfunding, often boosted via social media, has helped fund a wide array of relatively small projects, and the university hopes to use this mechanism to support innovative work by students, faculty and staff.
The range from improving renewable-energy technology to teaching constitutional law in K-12 schools via CU law students.
Both film projects are spearheaded by students pursuing a bachelor of fine arts in film. In that degree program, students are required to produce a film as a senior thesis, which is done at the students鈥� own expense. Crowdfunding could blunt that financial burden.
Alicia Ramirez and Amanda Gostomski plan to produce their films in the fall and graduate in December.
Ramirez doesn鈥檛 want to spoil her plot but describes her film, 鈥淏ug,鈥� as 鈥渁 dark comedy about a man who鈥檚 treating his depression and turns into an ant.鈥�
