The Yonkers Public Schools officially opened a new school Wednesday aimed at educating students for the film and television industry. The Robert Halmi Sr. Academy of Film and Television is located ...

The Robert Halmi Sr. Academy of Film and Television in Yonkers at 463 Hawthorne Ave. celebrated its opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, Sept. 23,… Daily Voice Westchester County NY ...

Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, school Superintendent Anibal Soler, Jr. and other local leaders joined film producer Robert Halmi Jr. at a ribbon-cutting event to mark the opening of the Robert Halmi Sr ...

“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 ...

Nobody ever accused Robert Halmi Sr. of thinking small ... all,” Halmi said in a 2007 interview by the Archive of American Television. “It was eight hours — that’s horrible!

The institution is a high school-level trade school that provides hands-on learning to students interested in careers in the film industry.

Hallmark Channel founder and film industry legend Robert Halmi broke the news in an exclusive interview with our senior reporter Tara Rosenblum during a tour of Lionsgate Studios in Yonkers.

Robert Halmi Sr., the Hungarian-born producer ... Halmi continued to work in film sporadically the rest of his life but made his mark in television after founding Robert Halmi Inc. in 1979 with ...