Robert Halmi Jr. Cuts Ribbon On School Near Thriving Lionsgate Studios Yonkers With IATSE-Backed Program To Train Local Crew
deadline.comHollywood strikes and dwindling peak TV have dented U.S. studio occupancy but Lionsgate Studios Yonkers, the first purpose-built complex Stateside from Robert Halmi’s Great Point Studios and the biggest in the northeast, has been pretty much full since its early 2022 debut.
On Wednesday, Halmi cut the ribbon for a new public high school in Yonkers — the Robert Halmi Sr. Academy of Film and Television, named after his late father — aimed at training a new local crew base for the city that’s an evolving destination for film and tv production.
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. “For people who knew him, it’s so fitting.
Because he was, among many things, an incredible mentor to so many people, and such a good teacher, and so patient,” Halmi Jr.
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