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In June 2000, Joe Hall founded Ghetto Film School (GFS) to educate, develop
and celebrate the next generation of great American storytellers. Through his
leadership, GFS opened The Cinema School in September 2009 -- a select-
admissions NYC public institution that is the nation’s first film high school. Both
are located in the South Bronx neighborhood where Joe has lived and worked for
the last 20 years.

In 2005, NYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg presented Joe with the Mayor’s
Award for Arts and Culture, alongside Wynton Marsalis and Poet Laureate Billy
Collins. Joe is a published writer on youth development and arts education, a
documentary film producer, and holds a master’s degree in social administration from Columbia University.

Blog Entries by Joe Hall

How Would We Teach Andy Warhol?

Posted June 14, 2011 | 11:10:22 (EST)

During high school, Andy Warhol took classes at the Carnegie Museum's teen program in his hometown, Pittsburgh. Building on a solid public high school arts curriculum, Carnegie provided an added dimension with long stretches of study time in the galleries, high-expectations and rigorous critique of his emerging craft. These classes...

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E.A. Hanks: Q & A With Joe Hall Of Ghetto Film School

Posted October 19, 2007 | 09:54:36 (EST)

What is the story of Ghetto Film School? Did you have a particular "light bulb" moment when it became clear to you that you wanted to do something for children?

In 1999, after a 10-year career as a community social worker in the South Bronx, I was trying...

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