EPPF 2-11-24 Alliviane and Star Central Studios

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Paso Public Forum. I'm your host, Amber Banda here with me today.
I have Aliyah Taylor, public relationscoordinator at Aliviana on the Prevention Resource Center
side. Alaya, thank you forbeing here with me today. Thank you
so much for having me Amber.If I see your name wrong, please
correct me again. Of course,of course, I just I want to
make sure I get it right.So here today we're going to talk about

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Aliviana, which is a nonprofit.I know a little bit about it,
and I tried, like I've toldlisteners in the past, to learn too
much so that way I can comeat it from the viewpoint or listening point
as a listener. So Aliya,please tell me what is Aliviana and what
kind of services do they provide?Of course, so Oliviani as a prevention
resource center. We have multiple organizationsaround ol Paso. The center that I

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specifically work at is in Central sixteentwenty six Medical Center Drive, and we
are a prevention resource clinic, sowe help individuals when it comes to substance
abuse or misuse. I would wouldlike to say our first floor, you
know, we have a methodone clinic, so we are definitely helping those in
need. It could be anyone,whether it's veterans, you know, family

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members, just anyone that you mayknow. We also offer counseling, and
some of our other centers that couldbe downtown or in the other parts of
al Paso, they'll also offer housing. So we also have a women's clinic.
So we do a variety of differentthings. But the center that I
specifically work at is cater to preventionand we do intervention and we really just

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want we want to help people outin the community when it comes to that
kind of stuff. Of course,so let's kind of break down those and
and and I'll ask you to remindme of them in order. But the
first one that you talked about washelping people with substance and you didn't use
abuse, you said, I correctedmyself yes, because you said missus,
miss use yes. Let me askyou first, why did you correct yourself
in that way? And then ifyou can go into what that entails,

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like what what what that part ofthe program would would deal with. Of
course, so often at times andwe still hear it today, if somebody
is addicted to something or they've hadan addiction in the past, we would
call it substance abuse. We reallywant to get away from that stigma of
using the word abuse. It couldbe a little triggering. So we were

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trying to correct ourselves now and saysubstance misuse because you know, we don't
want to single them out. Westill want to, you know, use
preventative measures. But we've often realizedthat that word abuse can be triggering because
we use it so many different waysfor so many different things. So I
have to correct myself there, misusebecause you're miss you're misusing whether a subs

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and it could be alcohol, drugrelated, you know, so many different
things you're misusing that. And Ithink also when you change the wording,
it can help people come forward,you know, because if they're thinks like
you said, you think abuse,you think, oh, I'm doing something
horribly wrong. You know, Ideal a lot with child abuse, and
you think about that, you usethe word abuse, and that's where your
mind goes. And so if you'reusing that word, you know, I

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think maybe one of the reasons thatit can help is people more likely or
more likely to seek help. Sowhat kind of substance misuse do you see
at Aliviana and that you can helppeople with? Now, personally, I
don't work directly with clients because Iam just on the PR side. But
our first floor, as I mentionedbefore in the beginning, is a method

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on clinic. So we do havea lot of people, you know,
that have often been treated for usingsome of these drugs. Opioids, you
know, what's another one, oxy, There's just just there's a variety of
different I would say, different substances. Yeah, this is what I think,
don't I think? Myth? Yeahexactly, And I mean again,

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that's you know, that's just myassumption looking from from outside looking in.
So it's not just myth, it'sit. So when I was looking at
some of your social media, ofcourse you also deal with alcoholism. I
saw something on fentanyl. So arethe different floors or the different clinics.
Do they cater if so, tospeak to different substances, different substance misuse.

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Yes, of course. So ourfirst floor methodone clinic, individuals are
coming in to be treated. Nowour second floor, that's going to be
our our in house patient. Iwould like to say, kind of like
a therapy. You have our youknow, highly well trained employees that are
working as counselors to help these peoplewith some of the things that they're battling.

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So they'll do sessions with them andit could either be court ordered,
you know, school related. However, I worked in the system for them,
but they're they're coming in, youknow, multiple times during the week,
maybe out of the month and gettingthose hours in. And then that's
on the second floor, so you'regetting that counseling. Now the third floor,
which is I work, that's prevention. So we're going we're doing a

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lot of community outreach. We're goingout to schools, We're going out and
doing trainings and NARCAN trainings. Youknow, we're teaching our law Yeah,
we're teaching our law enforcement. Youknow, we're really getting the city involved,
the community involved. And then ofcourse fourth floor is just administrative services.
But like I mentioned before, that'sjust our one center and that's at
sixteen twenty six Medical Drive. Wehave other centers and downtown which is housing

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for women in shelter, So avariety of different things. Oliviania is very
diverse when when it comes to helpingthe community in that way. So okay,
so now you're painting a better picturefor me. So again, if
you're just tuning in, I haveAleyah Taylor. Did I say that right?
Yes? Okay, thank, publicrelations coordinator at Aliviana on the Prevention
Resource Center. So then let's focusmore. Now that I get a better

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understanding, let's focus more on thePrevention Resource Center. Tell me more about
about what you do there. Thatway we can focus just on that.
Yeah, of course. So myjob as a public relations coordinator, I'm
you know, I do a lotof community outreach. So I'm reaching out
to some of our local law enforcement, some of our our hospitals. You

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know, when it comes to nurses, I want to give them proper training
on our CAN training And I actuallyjust got back from in our CAN training
today. And you know, wedo a variety of different things, HIV
trainings and I'm just reaching out topeople who would be willing to learn about
this stuff, you know, thatway they have knowledge of what's going on.
And like I said, we doa lot of community outreach, so
we're partnering with schools, especially whenit comes to Red Ribbon Week. That's

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a really big thing, you know, we really want to get these kids
engaged. Yeah, and then ofcourse my day to day duties and I'm
doing press releases and social media,but really just trying to get that word
out there. That's that's what I'mdoing as a public relations coordinator. Just
like you had sent me a pressrelease in December talking about December I believe
is the highest for drunk or whatwas the verbrite you use. I don't

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want to get that wrong. Yes, of course d U s so driving
under the influence and then as wellas dwi's but really DUIs and that's what
the press release that I had thatI had wrought about. Okay, So
you're really about education, and Imean, you know, prevention is in
my opinion, you know, whetherit's medical or for substance misuse is the
most important. You want to preventit from happening by by educating the public.

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So if someone wanted to maybe getyour services, maybe I don't know
if it would be the same contact. But there's someone that has issues with
substance misuse, or maybe they workat a school or they're part of law
enforcement, they want you to cometo them. How do how do they
get a hold of you? Yes, of course you could always call our
number at Oliviani are our local numberand that is nine one five seven eight

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to two for zero zero zero,and that's going to reach you with the
administrative services, so our fourth floor, and they'll definitely direct you to whichever
service at your requesting, whether it'sfor for counseling you know, the you
know, or whether it's just forcommunity outreach. You know, we'll get

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you to the right person. Okay, So that phone number is nine one
five seven eight two four zero zerozero. And better yet, for social
media, you can look up Alivianaon Instagram. It's Aliviana Inc. And
that's for like the broader the Mothershipif you will, the whole organization,
Yes, the whole organization. Oron Instagram you can go to p r

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C Region ten and that will takeyou to the local page. Yes,
that'll take you to our prevention side. So, as I mentioned before,
I work on the third floor inthat PRC Region ten Instagram handle. Right
there is our actual our Instagram,and you'll see a lot of posts regarding,
you know, just some data thatwe've given regarding you know, the

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number of overdoses that we have inan Alpastle County. We're just trying to
give give information out there, andwe do a little tips and that we
share as well, and how todispose of your your medicine when it's no
longer needed. You know. Wedo dea take back around the city like
twice out of the year. Sothere's different ways that we try. We
try to reach out to the community. And is that part of your job
too, to make those posts?Yes, yes, of course I do.

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Like I believe I do twelve socialmedia posts each month. Yeah,
okay, well I thought you're gonnasay it. Damn, I'm not gonna
let a social media post for iHeart, but I'm nowhere near that. So
you know, if you're an individualor if you're an organization a school,
go to that instagram p RC Regentten share it. You know, be
a part of being proactive in theprevention of substance misuse you know, which

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I mean you're very well aware of, can help eliminate do you wise,
it can help eliminate deaths, especiallyyou know fentanyl. I mean, I
know I've learned a lot of myinformation on you know, one once on
fentanyl and that can kill you.And I've learned a lot of that from
social media. So your job isextremely important. And thank you for what
you're doing for the community. Andif you want to reach them on Facebook,
you can also go to Oliviaana Inc. And Aleyah. Let me ask

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you, is there anything final thatyou want to tell the listening audience.
I would like to say, becauseI know sometimes it can be hard to
want to ask for that help it. You know, there's a lot of
there's always gonna be somebody out therethat's probably thinking, you know, I
don't need therapy, it's not forme. I could just handle it by
myself. Or you know, ifyou're not even willing to talk to a

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family member or a friend, youmay need to speak to somebody that who
you don't know, who doesn't knowyou, who who probably will not judge
you based off of what they've alreadyknown. So We're always welcome, welcoming
people throughout their community, friends,family, just come in. It just
takes one person to just come inand and just you know, say I
need help, and we're willing tohelp you with those whatever services that you

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may need. Another thing I wantI want to mention is that we are
recently working on a current billboard that'sthat's going to be coming out showing the
number of people that who have diedregarding Fentunnel around the city of all Passo.
And that billboard will be coming outso soon as well, so local
past ones will be able to seethat. Yeah, and hopefully it'll help

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even if it's even if you helpone person with the billboard. If we
if we reach one person here,our job is done right well. Thank
you so much, Aleiah for beingin here with me today. Yes,
thank you for having me. Welcomeback to the Alpaso Public Forum. I'm
your host, Amber Banda, andtoday we have a couple of people here
from Star Central Studios Learning Center.We have Jennifer Sidio, the executive director

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of Star Central Studios Learning Center.Jennifer, thank you for being here with
us today. Thank you for havingus Amber, and we also have Gilbert
Jorgensen, President of Star Central StudiosLearning Center. Gilbert, thank you for
being here with us today as well. Thank you. So today we're going
to be talking about Star Central StudiosLearning Center. It is a nonprofit and
Jennifer, what is this this nonprofit? Absolutely so, Star Central Studios Learning

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Center. It's a five oh onec three nonprofit film education learning center.
It's a place where anyone that's interestedin film can learn all aspects of the
industry. We're going to teach youabout film, camera lenses, acting,
writing, directing, editing. We'regoing to expose you to all the careers

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related to film and the opportunity toshare your story with I'll passo and really
the rest of the world. Andwe pair you with teachers that work in
the industry every single day, andwe marror the students with the teachers to
really reinforce film education in the Southwest. Oh so, okay, it's not
just learning to shoot it, butit's also acting as well. Well.

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We partner with other nonprofits within thearea. We have a great partnership with
Border Arts Initiative and they teach theperformance side. But they're gonna what they're
gonna do is they're going to learnhow to collaborate with the performative side to
really make their story happen. Becausesome things are going to be scripted,
some things are not going to bescripted, and it's going to call for
actors and different performers as well.So we lean on our co nonprofit partners

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for that. Oh while that's amazing. So this being a nonprofit, it
has a purpose to serve the communitylike most nonprofits do. What do you
see this learning center? How doyou see it helping the students that are
a part of it. So manystudents that come to us are very limited
in terms of what their high schoolsoffer them in terms of film production.

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A lot of them have the opportunityto learn audio video production by way of
broadcasts, which is very important,but anything beyond that is a bit limiting
because of the cost associated for schools. We provide children and students with the
opportunity to learn from classroom to careerbecause we're setting them up for careers in
film. Gilbert, can you expanda little bit more on that, especially

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like the classroom to career part,Because off the mic we were talking a
little bit about how the end goalis for them to actually not just learn
about it, but actually get ajob in this industry. Yeah, Like
Jennifer is saying, there's probably nota lot of high schools, if any,
that have a film program that useactual film equipment that is used in
the industry. So I guess inthe film industry, the cameras and lenses,

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for example, for one care packageis like a quarter million dollars.
Yeah, so I don't think anyschool would be like, oh, coordinate
dollars it, let's take two ofthem. You know, they see the
number and it kind of scares upaway. Unfortunately, what happens is if
you don't make that investment in ourcommunity, they go somewhere else to learn
a bigger city, a film school, somewhere else. And so we're trying

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to keep people here in al Paso, you know, because we need to
have an active filmustry, which wedo. It's a lot of people don't
know about that, but there it'spretty active in the film industry here in
Opaso. I think we're just namedwe made the list for the top one
of the top cities to be afilmmaker, and we Maker magazine for the
first time ever along with the Lascruises as well. So if we create

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this, we have our profit,our for profit businesses that has all these
equipments. So our for profit businessesdonates all this equipment and resources to our
nonprofit so that way the students haveaccess to cinema cameras and lenses and lights
and the same stuff they use onthe two hundred million dollar movies, you
know. So that way you canlearn and you can stay here in ol
Paso and be a filmmaker, andyou can tell our stories because if we

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don't, then people from so orelse are gonna come and tell our stories
from their perspective. That's a goodpoint. And with that being said,
can you tell us a little bitabout the history. I'm guessing again this
is just my guess that this wascreated because you saw a need for this
for for people to stay here ratherthan you know, learn and leave,
or maybe they didn't have the resources. So can you tell me a little
about about the history of this learningcenter? Sure, you know, one

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of our for profit businesses is calledLeo Lighted and Grip Camera Rental, So
that's a business that rents out equipmentto any any people that come into town.
To local filmmakers to shows, tomovies because they don't travel with big
giant lights and stands and stuff.Usually they don't fit up. They don't
fit above the seat on the plane. Right, So that was pretty uh,

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you know, it's pretty successful forus because production is coming to town
all the time. So right nowthere's a Netflix show shooting right now.
Really, yeah, we did.There was an indie field that just wrapped,
and Warner Brothers is coming in lateron this year too, So people
just don't know about it. Yeah, we don't know. But they come
in, they rent their equipment,they high some crew, they do their
thing. Uh, and that's it. The water pros you right here about

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because they're gonna do a pretty massiveproduction downtown. So that's something that will
probably make the news. But otherthan that, they'll tell me all the
secrets off here. Oh you'll seeit. But other than that, like
Netflix shows and you know, HBOis here several times, and History Channel
and mister Bezos what's his blue origin? They rented some stuff, they shoot

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some stuff with us, not himpersonally, but you know his people.
Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.Can you and if you can't, that's
perfectly fine, but can you giveus some names of maybe some companies that
you've worked with that people would recognize, or some shows. Oh man,
it's just just so many and anything. Any probably Networker station, it's Netflix,
Amazon Films, Blue Origin is theLouis Vauton, so all kinds of

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stuff. You know, I thinkI'm not alone when I ask, Okay,
there's these big names coming. Doyou think, like why don't people
know about it? Is it becausemore? You know, because like when
you're making a movie, you kindof want to keep it on the DL,
So people want bombarding the actors orwhatever. Is it just because it's
not out there enough, which iswhat you guys are trying to promote.
I guess a lot of those companiesthey're just doing their job. They just

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come in here, they have ajob to do. There. A lot
of them are sub contractors or thebig networks I just mentioned, so they
just go do their thing and gettheir assignment done and move. They're not
really in the habit of like youknow, the bullhorn and right posting it
on tiktokaso filming. They're just it'sjust the NDA, so they can't say
what they're doing. So it's basicallyjust the film commissioner Drew and me.

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They get the call that even thoughthose productions are here, if it's a
big, large production, it haslike movie stars, that gets pressed,
but if it's not, if it'sjust like a TV show, it doesn't
really get attention or press or anythinglike that. Yeah, and Jennifer,
let me ask you. I thinkthat if anyone's hearing this so far,
whoever is hearing this so far,they're getting kind of excited about it.
And you did say that there areprograms. Can you tell us the parameters

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of someone that can be a partof the programs age and how they can
get involved in this in this absolutelyso right now, our program is really
geared towards high school students and collegestudents we receive. We are built on
the generosity of our donors scholarships,sponsorships, and grants. So much of

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what we do is based on that. We are nonprofits, so we take
that in because every student that comesto see us, there's no cost to
them, so they're not paying toattend by way of the underwriters of the
grants that are afforded to us.So at the moment the program is set
up specifically for high school and collegestudents and anyone who's interested in the film
industry. So what they do isthey come to us, we have workshops.

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We have different workshops in partnership.We have a partnership right now with
Workforce Solutions Borderplex, and they workwith us within a certain period of time.
We create public service announcements for avariety of different nonprofits within the area.
And these are all student produced,student filmed programs that we put together,
I'm sorry, student produce PSAs thatwe put together with guidance from our

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teachers and our teaching staff alike.So the program that we have right now,
like I said, is in highschools, so we work with the
school districts and we're looking to expandthese programs. We did notice by way
of our grassroots efforts that we dowith the schools that a lot of middle
schools are looking for film education programs, so we will be expanding on that
this summer. It's important to notethat our program is only one year old.

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In terms of the nonprofit, We'veall been in the film industry for
quite some time in film and relatedrelated field, but with regards to the
nonprofit we've only been one year.We just turned one year, and we've
been very blessed by the support thatwe've received thus far from the city and
from the county and from a lotof the school districts that are participating with

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us. So at the moment,everything is based on the schools that we
partner with. So really point ifanybody is listening, get your administrative administration
involved, let them know that youare interested in the film arts and we
can definitely make connection, or theycan reach out to our website as well
for more information because we have oneoff programs that we do as well that

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people can anyone that's interested can inquireabout what do you mean by one off
program? When offs we're you know, like anybody that's a student that's a
film student that's interested in our program, they can definitely get involved. We
have open like kind of like opengym. We have open open hours for
our studio because one of the greatthings about our facility is yes, we're

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a learning center and we have ourlearning center classroom, but we also have
the largest equipment supply and Alpasso andstudents can use this as well when they
repair them with a professional and it'sa little to no cost. And so
if a high school student, becauseso the minimum age would be like fifteen,
So if you know, if someonefifteen and above, one intrint program

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for the current programs, but we'redeveloped being a middle school program as well.
So for the for the current program, if someone wanted to go and
take advantage of those, how wouldthey? How would they how would they
start that process? They can goto our website start Central Studios Learning Center
dot org and there there's a getInvolved chab where they can fill that out
to inquire about our program and thenwe connect with them. If we have

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fillings or openings and our current programsthey can uh they can attend one of
those. Oftentimes we have master classeswhere we bring in producers, directors of
photography, different people from the industryto our studio and we teach a four
to six hour masterclass. So wehave different one off programs for that as
well. And so you'll teach themeverything from and again I'm not very sure

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that's the industry, but lighting andangles and and and you know the different
types of cameras. I mean fromscratch. They're learning everything, they're learning
all the equipment they're learning how towork on an actual set. They're working
in partnership with the director, directorof photography, the gaffers, the lighting,
make up, craft services, everythingthat has to do with film,

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everything, everything, makeup, costuming, And I just wanted to let everyone
know we are not closed off.We are a resource. We are a
learning center for good reason, becausewe do not want to close our doors.
This is an opportunity for the cityanyone that's interested to learn more about
film. I really believe there's aplace for everyone in film, anyone that
has anyone that has an interest infilm, there's a place for you.

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If you do makeup or hair orcostume, if you weld, if you
have a love of teaching, ifyou have an interest in creating furniture or
welding, there's always a need forsets. If you are an artist,
there's always a place for it.If you're if you're you know, interested
in anything that's related to film,give us a call, because you never

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know unless you set foot on theset what it can ignite in you.
I might be give you guys acall on my tool. Yeah, that
sounds super interesting the way you're speakingabout I would love for my daughter to
get I would love to have her. And I know I'm not the I'm
not the only person out there that'slike, well, this would be something
great for my child, especially thosesummer programs that you were talking about.
If someone if someone is an adminat a school and they're interested, can

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you sell them a little bit moreon that, Like what exactly can those
programs provide for those kids? Howwould that work? Would you go to
the school, would they go tothe studio, and what would that be?
One things I want One of thethings I want to tell everybody is
that when you look at your sonor daughter and they're in school right now,
a lot of times they need acreative outlet. And I know that

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schools for a very long time wereteaching the importance of science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics. It wasthe STEM program that has since expanded to
include the arts. So it's changedfrom STEM to STEAM and the A in
STEAM is for the arts, andthere's been a real push to encourage students
that have creativity, that need thatexpressive outlet to pursue careers in the arts.

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And it does teach teamwork because Imean, if you're lighting guy or
the guy with the my is notholding it you know, look, can
you hold it up a little higher? We shot a commercial for nonprofit I'm
in right, so I kind ofknow that. But it's also teaching teamwork.
I mean it's not as untoric,but sports aren't for everyone, and
they need to learn teamwork somehow,and that would be a great way.
Absolutely. And you know, oneof the things that I can tell you
about the fundamentals of film is communicationand storytelling and the importance of writing and

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getting your voice across. And that'swhat we help to develop a lot of
students. They need that creativity.They need a place they sing, or
they write poetry, or they wantto act, or they're interested in makeup
or hair or all these different things. They like TikTok. They tell stories
every day by way of their socialmedia, by the way they dress,
the way they express themselves, theway they move their body language. They're

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going to learn a lot about thisand more when they get involved in our
program, because we really do nurturethat behavior for them. We're creating an
ecosystem of the arts. Because filmart is very, very new, It's
only one hundred and twenty five yearsold, Unlike paint or sculpture some of
these other art forms. So wereally want to encourage people to really express

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themselves by way of film. Andthere's so many opportunities and even if they
decide they don't want to be afilmmaker, at least they will walk away
with the communication skills that they canpass on for public speaking, for writing,
for storytelling, and that's something thatthey can take with them wherever they
go. Well, I guess youknow, there's been a recent renaissance in

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the film industry. You know,for many many years, I'll pass so
didn't really we had a chicken andegg problem. We didn't have any big
projects here because there was no resourceslike I mentioned earlier about like rental facilities
something like that. And then wedidn't have any resources because there was no
big projects. So at some pointsome of needs to break that cycle and
just provide the resources and you know, and the big projects came along with

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it, you know. So backyou know, in the fifties and sixties,
we would have movie premieeres here andyou know, Presidence visit here,
a movie stars and the passo waslike it, you know, So we
need to get back to kind oflike the days of when al Passo was
a shiny gem. Yeah, andkind of you know, because we have
a bad narrative sometimes or people makeassumptions about our city that's probably ever even

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been here. Uh, and oncepeople come, you know, then they
fall in love, you know.Yeah, Like I know you all were
involved with Tex Mex Motors And oneof the biggest compliments and things that I
noticed myself personally was the way thatal Passo was portrayed. Because you've seen
it portrayed in other films or whatever, it's like, that's not really all
Passo. But then you know,you're looking and you're like, yes,

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yes, that's all Passo. Sothat's I thought that that was really cool,
and I think that's kind of whatyou guys are going. Yeah,
the producers of Text Mex love it. I'll Passo. They love it here.
They love the people. Every beso friendly. The city and county
have been walking in with open arms. That's not what they're used to working
in Los Angeles and other major citieswhere they don't care. Let's just run
of the bill over there. Yeah. So yeah, they love it here.

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They maybe take advantage of it overthere or trying to twist their arm
to see if they could do morehere or may you know, set up
camp here or something like that.And so really really nice people, really
nice producers. The exact opposite thatstereotype. You hear producers are like world
mean and ugly, yell everybody,and those really chill guys, uh,
and they love it here. Sowe're trying to get them to fall more
and love and bring more stuff here. Oh that would be amazing. Yeah,

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I'd love for you guys to comeback and maybe a year and just
I'll be like, can I canI get them back on the show.
Either'd be to be well, we'llhave to pencil you in. I can
see that happening for sure. Soif you're again here in the station,
we've had Jennifer Siviio, the executivedirector of Star Central Studios Learning Center,
and Gilbert Jorgensen, the president ofStar Central Studios Learning Center. Gilbert,

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do you have any last remarks thatyou would like to say to the listening
audience. Well, like Jennifer said, it takes a village. You know,
we encourage people to go to ourwebsite, you know, Star Central
Studios Learning Center dot org. He'sGoogle starts to learning center. It'll probably
pop up and just give us anation. Support us any way you can,
because you know we are doing elidevelopment, we're promoting the arts.

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The film industry is the only industrythat touches all other industries. You know,
what's your big which you have anactive film industry that we're going to
need. You know, restaurants athotels and cars and carpenters, electricians and
you name it. You know,so invested in your community. It doesn't
matter the amount. Whatever you canafford, we appreciate it. And you
are nonprofits. So people think movies, they think, oh they have money.
No, this is you know,you guys are a year old and

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you've already done great things. Butlike you said, you still need the
funding. And Jennifer, let meask you, is there anything else that
you would like to add to forour listening audience. Yes. I just
want to stress that our biggest motivationis sharing the stories of Alpasso. That
is something that has been in myopinion, the stories have not all been
told. And every day we're learningmore and more about our city just by

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way of talking to people and gettingto know some of the uncovered gems of
our city, one of which thatwe just had the opportunity to explore was
getting to know our Mission Trail.And these are three four hundred year olds
stories that need to be told,and it's so beautiful when it's told through
the perspective of somebody that's lived hereand that has history inheritage here in al

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Paso. And we'd love to justhave the opportunity to get to know some
of these amazing people that make upour city and really shine a light on
what they've done and their contributions byway of film. Because film it lives
on, It lives on, andpeople can see all Passo, get to
know all the great sites and peopleand the real trailblazers of the area.

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So when you think of film,it's not always just one's perspective, it's
all perspectives. And there's so manypeople that make the city of all Pasto
special and we just want to shareit on the big screen because you never
know who's watching. So anyone withan interest in film, or son and
daughter that has a real creative,expressive side to them that's looking for an
outlet reach out to us. We'lltry to find a way to work together.

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Like I said, every day we'reworking with school districts and schools and
also charter schools as well, andsome of the non t additional school programs
to get kids involved because I thinkit's more than ever, it's important to
share these stories with the world.I love that, and so if you
do want more information, you cango to Star Central Studios Learningcenter dot org,
or you can look both on Instagramand Facebook for SCSLC, or just

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look up Star Central Studios Learning Center. Thank you both again for being here
with me today. It's been alot of fun. Thank you Amber,
Thank you ma'am. You've been listeningto Olpasso Public Forum, a weekly public
affairs presentation of iHeartRadio El Paso.If you, your organization or event would
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again next week for another edition ofEl Paso Public Forum. The preceding program
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