11.28.11
G-Star Thespians once again win big!

We are proud to announce the following results from the 2011-2012 District X Individual Events Competition:

9 events rated “Good”
14 events rated “Excellent”
12 events rated “Superior”
6 events selected as “Critic’s Choice” – or “Best of the Event” including:

Sarah Sheldon & Connor Shepard (Grade 12) for Playwriting
Ilana Rothman (Grade 12) for Playwriting
Indigo Rancourt (Grade 11) for Costume Construction
Vanessa Hernandez (Grade 9) for Costume Design
Nia Benjamin (Grade 12) for BOTH Monologues & Publicity Design

*Critic’s Choice
Superior Rating:
*Nia Benjamin (Monologues)
*Nia Benjamin (Publicity Design)
Nia Benjamin, Brianna Diaby, Desmond Mangal, Jr., & Sariel Toribio (Ensemble Acting)
Wilandy Castelin & Sariel Toribio (Duet Acting)
Brianna Diaby (Monologues)
*Vanessa Hernandez (Costume Design)
Celina Kriedy & Gina Roldan (Duet Acting)
Hunter McConnell (Monologues)
Caiti Marlowe (Solo Musical)
*Ilana Rothman (Playwriting)
*Sarah Sheldon & Connor Shepard (Playwriting)
Mariah Telesca (Solo Musical)

Excellent Rating:
Casillas & Co. (Large Group Musical)
Castelin & Co. (Ensemble Acting)
Kayla Fainer (Solo Musical)
Ford & Co. (Ensemble Acting)
Hernandez & Rivera (Pantomime)
James & Mendez (Duet Acting)
Laiacona & Linn (Duet Acting)
McFeely & Ramotowska (Duet Acting)
Bianca Moises (Monologues)
Monika Ramotowska (Monologues)
*Indigo Rancourt (Costume Construction)
Rincon & Co. (Pantomime)
Rosalyn Velez (Costume Design)
Lawrence Tardy (Monologues)

Good Rating:
Bristol & Co. (Ensemble Acting)
Kayla Brousseau (Costume Design)
Castelin & Frey (Duet Musical)
Darien Frey (Solo Musical)
Gonzalez & Co. (Ensemble Acting)
McFeely & Telesca (Duet Musical)
Rancourt & Wall (Duet Muscial)
Monika Ramotowska (Set Design)
Kiandra Smith (Pantomime)

11.28.11
G-Star Students Participate in Palm Beach State College EMT Training Exercise


5 G-Star students, members of the "X-Scream Team" spent the afternoon at Palm Beach State College acting as "patients" for a group of this semesters EMT trainees. Students arrived on campus with extremely life-like injuries designed by makeup artist Emily Serpico to simulate real life scenarios as part of the 2011 training program. EMT instructors and students alike were so impressed with the realism and training results that G-Star involvement in the program is slated to continue with future EMT classes at the college.
 

EMT students prepare to "transport" patient
Jordan Nathanson.

"Burn" victim Jared Strickland
gets examined.

 

Makeup prosthetics designed and produced for the project by Emily Serpico  

Impalement victim Gregory Hauptner discusses "injuries" with EMT student.

G-Star Students Jordan Nathanson, Jeremy Lacey and Gregory Hauptner

01.31.11
Celine Dion at G-Star Studios and School of the Arts


Mega-recording star, Celine Dion, completed two weeks of rehearsal and behind-the-scenes filming here, Friday, in preparation for her new Caesars Palace Las Vegas show. Miss Dion needed a world-class rehearsal and film production studio and found it at G-Star.
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03.14.11


Rock Legends Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks to rehearse for National Tour at G-Star Studios.

Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks, 8 semi-trucks and dozens of support staff prepare for their opening night at BankAtlantic Center in the sound stage. A large number of G-Star students have been selected to help on the project during Spring Break.
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03.08.11

'Today' show puts Palm Springs charter school students in spotlight

— The kids at G-Star School of the Arts for Motion Pictures and Broadcasting are no strangers to working in front of and behind the cameras.
The students, after all, are enrolled in a high school that has partnered with an Oscar-winning visual effects company and where over 50 feature films have been produced since the school opened in 2003 on an old water utilities plant on Congress Avenue.
But on this unusually balmy March afternoon, even savvy G-Star students are buzzing about the national exposure they're about to receive as a five-member crew from NBC's Today prepares to tape a feature on the Palm Springs charter school.
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04.19.11

G-Star Students Participate in Mock Disaster at PBIA
(Palm Beach Post)
— Some 30 teenage film school students and dozens of local firefighters, police officers and government officials converged on the Palm Beach International Airport this morning to simulate the crash of a Boeing 727.
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05.17.11
G-Star Studios and School of the arts announces partnership with CineVideoTech Inc.

Palm Springs, FL (May 17, 2011)
The G-Star Studios and School of the Arts proudly announces its new partnership with CineVideoTech (CVT), one of Florida’s oldest and largest motion picture lighting, grip and camera companies, located in Miami and Orlando. CVT will expand its operations to include the G-Star Studios with permanent inventory on site. CVT will rent its equipment out to feature films, major commercials and music video productions that shoot on the G-Star Studios’ back lot and sound stage - and throughout Palm Beach County as well as provide custom packages to G-Star students for use on their school productions.

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05.24.11
G-Star Scores Big on FCAT Writing

Palm Springs, FL (May 24, 2011) -
The first high school FCAT scores for this school year have been released. The FCAT Writing results for the G-Star School of the Arts for Motion Pictures and Broadcasting are the best in Palm Beach County. Only two high schools in the County that tested 200 or more students scored 100% Writing on grade level (Level 3). The two schools were the Dreyfoos School of the Arts and the G-Star School of the Arts.
 
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09.23.11
Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez to Film at G-Star
Two helicopters flew over the Intracoastal Waterway on Thursday evening as part of a scene from the new Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez movie being filmed at numerous locations in Palm Beach County - including G-Star School of the Arts.
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