ACADEMICS
The G-Star School of the Arts for Film, Animation
and Performing Arts is the largest Film, Digital Media
Production, and Acting high school in the nation. It
is the only high school in the world on the back lot
of a commercial motion picture studio. G-Star School
of the Arts is an internationally accredited high
school awarded by AdvancED, the international
accreditation association for colleges and schools.
All colleges and universities accept our students.
We offer a complete college preparatory education
with honors classes, Advanced Placement courses, IB
Diploma Programme courses, Digital Imaging Career
Path and dual enrollment with Florida Atlantic
University, Palm Beach State College, and
LynnUniversity. The school also trains students in
writing, directing, producing, editing and all
aspects of film and digital media production in
front of the camera and behind the camera. G-Star
has been named “The Number One High School for Film
in the World” in London, England by the Raindance
Film Festival, the largest independent film festival
in Europe.
G-Star School of the Arts is the only charter high
school in the State of Florida to offer the
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB),
and the only IB Programme in the world with an
emphasis on film and theatre. G-Star also features a
Digital Imaging Career Path Program in Special
Visual Effects, 3-D Animation, and Gaming which was
designed by Florida State University’s Film School
and the 8-time Academy Award winning special effects
company Digital Domain in cooperation with the award
winning G-Star Film Department.
At G-Star School of the Arts 99% of our students
graduate, with 97% matriculating on to colleges and
universities. G-Star is an “A” rated school as
ranked by the State of Florida Department of
Education, and is ranked in the top 2.3% of all
national high schools by the Washington Post. 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.
FACILITIES
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. With over
110,000 sq. ft. under roof in the motion picture
complex, it is now the largest motion picture studio
in Florida. 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 1 is larger
than the new School of Cinematic Arts sound stage at
the University of Southern California.
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, all on 11 acres of
property, and facilitated by over 100 faculty and
staff. Students attend the school from Jupiter to
Boca Raton to the Glades on transportation provided
by A&S Transportation, a private bus company. Many
families have relocated from out of state to Palm
Beach County and even from out of country just so
their children can attend G-Star.
ARTS
Over fifty feature films have been produced at the
G-Star Studios, many commercials including NIKE,
NFL, Abercrombie & Fitch, Fisker electric autos and
Barco Lighting, as well as music videos and
rehearsals by Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Stevie
Nicks, Roger Daltrey, The Moody Blues and Radiohead.
Our students assist on the sets of multi-million
dollar feature films, commercials, and music videos,
affording them the opportunity to work side by side
with the cast, crew, stars, producers and directors
as interns, thus receiving hands-on, real-world
experience in the film industry. Recently, the
Jennifer Lopez and Jason Statham film, Parker, was
shot at the G-Star Studios, Tiger Woods and
Shaquille O’Neal starred in a commercial for EA
Sports, as well as Serena Williams’ (Wimbledon
Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist) shoot for the
National Football League (NFL). G-Star was honored
to have Tom Sherak, the President of the Academy of
Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (The Oscars), tour
our campus and give a seminar to our students.
Other known industry professionals who have
produced, worked on, or appeared in films at the
G-Star Studios include Bobby Moresco, the Academy
Award winning Co-Producer and Co-Writer of CRASH and
Million Dollar Baby; Master Producer Jonathan Krane,
who has grossed over two billion dollars in box
office revenues for films such as 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, and
Independence Day; Tony and Golden Globe winner Barry
Bostwick; and Director Susan Seidelman, who directed
Desperately Seeking Susan and numerous episodes of
Sex and the City, including the pilot.
Two of the biggest teen stars in the world, Dylan
and Cole Sprouse, from Disney Channel's The Suite
Life of Zack & Cody and Suite Life on Deck, starred
in their breakout feature film entitled The Prince
and the Pauper at the G-Star Studios. Dyan Cannon,
Sally Kellerman, John Goodman, Daniel Samonas
(Wizards of Waverly), 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, James Cromwell (Babe, I,
Robot) and Leo Rossi from The Accused, and Without A
Trace, have all worked with G-Star students on the
G-Star Studios back lot in order to bring them
real-world industry experience.
G-Star School of the Arts is proud of our new
association with the Niles Creative Group. Owner
David Niles invented HD TV and created the first HD
TV national network in the world. He built the
largest HD screen for Comcast (owners of NBC and
Universal Studios) in their 1,000 foot tall
headquarters in Philadelphia (it runs on artificial
intelligence, never produces the same image twice,
and changes programming based on crowd movement). He
recently finished creating and equipping the entire
New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street with all new
HD visual effects, produced the Olympic TV ads for
NBC, and is now building the largest HD screens in
the world, twice as large as Comcast’s, for the
George W. Bush Presidential Library, the world’s
first all-digital library. Mr. Niles, owner of the
Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, moved to Palm
Beach County, FL and now utilizes the G-Star
Studios’ Sound Stage 1 regularly, of which he says,
“Of all the many sound stages around the world I
have worked in, this is my favorite sound stage
anywhere!” He welcomes working with G-Star students
on all of his projects.
G-Star School of the Arts is the only high school in
the nation to offer a course on entertainment law
and business 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.
G-Star School of the Arts students have won numerous
“Superiors” and “Critic’s Choice” awards at Regional
and State thespian festivals, and mount several
plays per year in our Loading Dock Theater. G-Star
students also participate in a resident professional
theater company's plays.
G-Star School of the Arts 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.
SAFETY
G-Star School of the Arts 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. There are no fights, no bullies, no drugs,
and no gangs.
MISSION - THE FUTURE
A central component of G-Star’s Mission is to create
an on-going and self-sustaining 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. They will be 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. |
