 The
G-STAR School of the Arts for Motion Pictures and
Broadcasting is the largest Film, TV Production and
Acting high school in the nation. The G-Star School
of the Arts is a nationally accredited high school
awarded by the Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools (SACS-CASI). All colleges and universities
accept our students. We offer a complete college
preparatory education with honors classes, advanced
placement classes and dual enrollment with Florida
Atlantic University, Palm Beach Community College
and Lynn University. The school also trains students
in Writing, Directing, Producing, Acting and all
aspects of film and TV production in front of the
camera and behind the camera.
Last year G-Star began its pursuit of becoming an
International Baccalaureate (IB) school. After
achieving the first two phases of the rigorous
application process, G-Star is now a candidate
school for the IB Diploma Programme. Beginning in
August for the school year 2011-2012, G-Star will be
accepting students entering the 9th grade
into the Preparatory Programme in anticipation of
earning our goal of becoming an International
Baccalaureate Diploma Programme.
G-Star graduates 99% of our students with 97%
accepted into major universities. Our graduating
students have been awarded scholarships to top film
and acting programs as well as to top academic
honors programs in universities such as UCLA, USC,
NYU, Boston University, Syracuse University, Florida
State University, University of Florida, University
of Miami, Savannah College of Art and Design, Sarah
Lawrence, New College of Florida, Florida Atlantic
University, University of South Florida Honors
College, American Musical and Dramatic Academy,
University of Central Florida, Nova Southeastern
University, Stetson University, Colorado State
University, Hofstra University, and San Francisco
State University, to name just a few.
The G-Star School of the Arts is the only high
school in the world with a commercial Motion Picture
Studio on its campus, the G-Star Studios, now the
largest motion picture studio in the State. Over 50
feature films have been produced at the Studios,
plus many commercials including NIKE and Abercrombie
& Fitch, as well as music videos and rehearsals by
Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks and Radiohead.
Our students assist on the sets of multi-million
dollar feature films, commercials and music videos
working side by side with the cast, crew, Producers
and Directors as interns, thus receiving hands-on,
real-world experience in the film industry. Among
the famous persons who have produced, worked on or
appeared in films at the G-Star Studios are Bobby
Moresco, the Academy Award winning Co-Producer and
Co-Writer of CRASH and Million Dollar Baby;
Master Producer Jonathan Krane, with over two
billion dollars in box office including the films
Face/Off, Swordfish, The General’s Daughter, and the
Look Who’s Talking trilogy; Dean Lyon, a Special
Visual Effects Supervisor for the Academy Award
winning trilogy Lord of the Rings, Titanic,
Armageddon, Independence Day; Tony and Golden
Globe winner Barry Bostwick, famous acting coach Ron
Paolillo (Welcome Back Kotter, It’s a Dog Gone
Tale: Destiny’s Stand); and the famous Director
Susan Seidelman who directed Desperately Seeking
Susan and the pilot and many episodes of Sex
and the City.
Two of the biggest teen stars in the world, Dylan
and Cole Sprouse, from the Disney Channel's The
Suite Life of Zack & Cody, starred in their
first feature film entitled The Prince and the
Pauper at the G-Star Studios as well as the
stars Dyan Cannon, Sally Kellerman, John Goodman,
Kay Panabaker (Fame, Grey’s Anatomy, CSI, Two and
A Half Men); Margo Harshman from Disney’s
Even Stevens movie & TV show, Joseph Balogna, Ed
Lauter who starred in both Longest Yard
pictures in 1976 & 2005, Brenda Vaccaro (Midnight
Cowboy), DeDee Pfeiffer, and Leo Rossi from
The Accused, and Without A Trace.
G-Star has opened the largest motion picture sound
stage in Florida. This new addition to the G-Star
Studios is twice the size of the sound stage used to
create Avatar, the same size as the sound
stages in Los Angeles where Jurassic Park III
and the Ironman movies were made, and where
Two and a Half Men and Desperate
Housewives are produced today. The G-Star
Studios sound stage is larger than the new School of
Cinematic Arts sound stage at the University of
Southern California (USC). G-Star also owns more
movie production equipment than NYU.
G-Star School of the Arts has the only
"entertainment law and business course" in any high
school in the nation taught by Alan Benjamin, the
former Group Senior Vice President of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and United Artists (UA)
Home Entertainment Group, and Vice President and
General Counsel of United Artists. He presided over
all of the James Bond and Rocky movies, plus many
others. Mr. Benjamin's course is titled
“Introduction to Film and the Entertainment
Business”
Our Drama Department has won numerous “Superiors”
and “Critic’s Choice” awards at Regional and State
thespian festivals and mounts several plays per year
in our Loading Dock Theater. G-Star students also
participate in a resident professional theater
company's plays. In 2009 Ron Paolillo joined our
faculty teaching “Acting for Film & TV”. Mr.
Paolillo is best known as “Horshak” from the
Welcome Back, Kotter TV series. Mr. Paolillo
has taught acting for both theater and film & TV for
many years on the college level at the University of
Connecticut.
G-STAR also has its own recording studio on campus
where film scoring, ADR, Foley Stage, musical groups
and individuals are recorded with state-of-the-art
equipment. The students engineer and operate the
studios for the performers.
The G-Star School of the Arts is one of the most
financially successful high schools in the nation.
Today the school owns over $16,000,000 in assets
that include over 110,000 sq. ft. under roof in 14
buildings housing 1130 students on 11 acres of
property. Students attend the school from Jupiter
to Boca Raton to the Glades on transportation
provided by the school. Many families have
relocated from out of state and even from out of
country just so their children can attend G-Star.
G-STAR has proven to be one of the safest schools in
the nation, backed by one of the strictest drug and
bullying policies in the country.
One of the goals of G-Star’s Mission is to create an
on-going, self-supporting feature-film industry in
Palm Beach County. In this way our students will go
on to graduate from college and return to be
employed in a film industry we have created; and to
become the future writers, directors, producers,
actors, editors, and crew for that industry. We are
the only educational entity that we know of that is
developing an entire industry just for the purpose
to employ our students after they graduate from
college. |
