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...past few years, PETA has repeatedly used shock tactics in an attempt to further its cause, summed up by PETA President Ingrid Newkirk as “total animal liberation.” Last year, its activists began a campaign entitled “Holocaust On Your Plate,” likening the slaughter of stockyard animals to the genocide undertaken by Nazi Germany. On the PETA-controlled website dedicated to that campaign, www.masskilling.com, images from concentration camps are juxtaposed with images from the stockyards...
Because of his departure from VES, Newkirk voices the difficulties of obtaining equipment, getting funding and finding actors without department support. Filmmakers have to construct their own support structure, as Newkirk has done with Nightfall Films...
...free time, he runs a club called Nightfall Films, which manages to make one or two short films a year. Newkirk is now applying to graduate school in film...
Still, film outside VES is alive, with extracurricular organizations such as the Journal of Cinematic Studies and the Dudley House Film Society. Scattered students, Newkirk included, shoot their own independent films...
...thing about] film is that there is no set route,” Newkirk says...