G-Star School Of The Arts

G-Star School of the Arts is a public charter high school located in West Palm Beach, Florida. Founded by the school's CEO Greg "Mustache Man" Hauptner in 2003. G-Star is the largest film, acting, and television high school, and the only high school in the world with a working motion pictures studio on campus. The school currently has over 1,300 students.

G-Star is a charter school, students come from across Palm Beach County to attend this school. Students study in fields on film production, TV production, and acting. Students that attend must take art classes as well as their normal academic classes. G-Star offers a complete college preparatory education with honors classes, Advanced Placement classes and dual enrollment (After much complaining) with Florida Atlantic University, Palm Beach Community College and Lynn University. The school was approved to offer the International Baccalaureate Programme in December 2011. 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.

Arts at the G-Star School

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 New York University (NYU). In 2010 the Raindance Film Festival (the largest independent film festival in Europe) rated G-Star the number one high school for film in the world, and the school took home first prize for the student video "Code Red".

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 1,130 students on 11 acres of property. Students attend the school from Jupiter to Boca Raton to the Glades on transportation provided by the school or take a free ride on Tri-Rail.

Props like an antiquated WWII bomber sit in the parking lot as naturally as the faculty's automobiles, and students and film crews are buzzing about, capturing moments on camera.

As a mid-year project, students produce a short film, which is then submitted to film festivals nationally and internationally. Done as a professional film with budgets and deadlines, the project involves every aspect of the school. Open auditions are held for every position, from directors, writers and actors to camera crew, grips and set designers, culminating in the some of the best high school films the U.S. produces.

Notable productions

G-Star Studios, now the largest motion picture studio in Florida. 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, Bob Dylan and Radiohead. Its students every now and then, 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 Palillo (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.

Students of the school assisted in the production of the music video for Radiohead's "House of Cards", which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Video in 2009.^[1]

Notable alumni

Emily Serpico (Class of 2013) - Face Off season 8 contestant.

References

External links

• Official website

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