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 ...

“I'm delighted the name of the school will be the Robert Halmi Sr. Film and Television Academy,” says Halmi. “I worked for my father for a little over 40 years and together, I watched him ...

The school, termed a "high level trade school," was conceived by Robert Halmi, a producer of more than 400 film and television projects and the founder of Great Point Studios in Yonkers.