G-Star School Of The Arts

G-Star School of the Arts for Film, Animation and Performing Arts is a public charter high school located in Palm Springs, Florida, founded by the school's CEO Greg Hauptner in 2003. G-Star is the largest film, animation, and acting, high school in the nation, and the only high school in the world that sits on the back lot of a major motion picture studio, the G-Star Studios. The school currently has 1,100 students in all three disciplines.

G-Star students come from across Palm Beach County as well as from all over the world to attend this school. Students study in fields on film production, 3-D animation, 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 the International Baccalaureate World School Programme. 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.

Accolades: G-Star is an "A" rated school 5 years in a row. It is academically in the top 1.2% of all high schools in the nation according to the Washington Post. The U.S. News & World Report named G-Star one of "The Best High Schools in America". G-Star awarded "The Number One High School for Film in the World" in London by the Raindance Film Festival, Europe's largest independent film festival. G-Star graduates 99% of its students with 97% going on to college. G-Star students have been accepted into Juilliard, Oxford University (England), West Point, Naval Academy at Annapolis, NYU, USC, UF, FSU, UM and many more. Where are our graduates today? Here's a brief list: Sound Engineer for the JimmyFallon Show, Universal Studios, Warner Bros., Disney, reality star of Syfy Channel's FACE OFF, Jim Henson's Creature Shop (Muppets), Hulu, several own their own production companies, traveling the world doing documentaries, and much more.

Arts at the G-Star School

The G-Star Studios motion picture sound stage is larger than the new School of Cinematic Arts sound stage at the University of Southern California (USC). It is also twice as large as the sound stage the movie "Avatar" was produced on. G-Star also owns more movie production equipment for use by its students than New York University (NYU).

Today the school has over 110,000 sq. ft. under roof in its motion picture complex with 14 buildings housing 1,130 students on 12 acres of property.

G-Star students produce well over 1,000 film shorts per year. As a mid-year project, students produce a feature 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 south 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. Many of its 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 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.

Teen stars, 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, Ron Jeremy, 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.^[1] Students have also worked with Bob Dylan, The Moody Blues, Tiger Woods, Shaquille O'neal, Jason Statham and Kevin James.

Notable alumni

Emily Serpico (Class of 2013) - Face Off season 8 contestant. She finished second. Her show was named "Best Competition Reality Show" by LA Critics.

References

External links

• Official website

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