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Robert Halmi Jr. Cuts Ribbon On School Near Thriving Lionsgate Studios Yonkers With IATSE-Backed Program To Train Local Crew
Robert Halmi Jr. cut the ribbon on the Robert Halmi Sr. Academy of Film and Television, a high school near his Lionsgate Studios Yonkers.
Halmi Sr. fought the Nazis and was jailed in World War II Hungary, emigrated to the U.S., made a mark as a photographer for Life magazine and became one of the biggest producers ever of TV movies and miniseries. Formal classwork sits alongside a curriculum developed with IATSE to instruct students in camera and sound operation, editing, makeup, hair, set construction – “all the trades for film and television.” They can travel to other Great Point studios in Buffalo, Georgia and Wales and affiliated Los Angeles stages. Lionsgate Yonkers has 2.5 million square feet of space with 16 sound stages and, Halmi says, has been “100% full since we opened” even as U.S. studio occupancy fell to a five-year low in August.
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