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This week's Utah Crowd-Funding Project aims to expose the dangers of heroin addiction to a new audience.

Salt Lake City filmmaker Jenny Mackenzie has been making movies about important social issues for most of her career, with her best known work — "Kick Like a Girl," a look at a girls' soccer team — appearing on HBO.

Mackenzie's current project is "Dying in Vein: The Opiate Generation," an intimate documentary about heroin addiction, seen through the lives of two friends who meet in middle school. Ten years later, one of them is dead.

Mackenzie is well under way on the film, but anticipates another 30 to 40 days of shooting, followed by months in editing.

That takes money, and Mackenzie has gone to Kickstarter to raise $25,000 in completion funds. So far, the project has taken in just over half the goal, $12,811. The deadline is Jan. 3.

Benefits for backers range from a thank you on Facebook (for $10) to a credit as a producer (for $10,000).

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