Business & Professional Film Staging Guy Stern Wins German Lit Prize Studio center is taking shape. T o attract more films and televi- sion productions, three new stages, support space and addi- tional office space are in development at the Allen Park Studio Center (APSC). The first step was the recent pouring of more than 150,000 square feet of concrete for the stage floors. Several productions have already used the APSC, with more slated to come to the complex in the next year. The new construction, which will not interfere with productions already under way, will add two 20,000-square-foot stages for feature film and television production and one 12,000-square-foot stage for green screen and commercials in a large facility originally built for the auto industry. The complex is adding 20,000 square feet of production office space and 40,000 square feet of space for film support companies. The APSC is at 16630 Southfield Road, south of 1-94, in Allen Park. S3 Entertainment Group (S3), a Michigan-based production company and a liaison in bringing film productions into the state, has entered into a preliminary long-term agreement with Allen Park to manage operations and production devel- opment at the APSC. With S3 involvement, a number of film industry support businesses have expressed significant interest in locating their operations at the APSC, including post- production facilities, visual and special effects, grip, electric, and specialty equipment, set design/construction, and insurance/film finance, officials said. "The Allen Park Studio Center project is evolving into so much more than initially anticipated and is now generating signifi- cant interest from the industry,"Allen Park Mayor Gary Burtka said. "We have had great success in mak- ing sure productions are satisfied with the resources we have here in Michigan to keep them coming back:' said Jeff Spilman, managing partner of S3. 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Lois Haron Allied Member ASID 248.851.6989 36 August 5 • 2010 N r. Guy Stern of West Bloomfield, distinguished professor emeritus at Detroit's Wayne State University, will receive the Geertje Potash-Suhr Prize for Prose in German from the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German. Stern is receiving this award for his years as a prominent scholar and beloved teacher with a variety of scholarly and liter- ary texts that draw from his vast knowl- Guy Stern edge and many expe- riences, mixed with "wit and wisdom uniquely (his) own:' said Frederick A. Lubich, president of the society. Stern retired from WSU in 2003 and became director of the Zekelman International Institute of the Righteous at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills. The Institute pays tribute to those who supported and res- cued others at great risk to themselves and their families. He is the sole surviving member of a Jewish family from Hildesheim, Germany, that was lost in the Holocaust. As the oldest child and only son, his parents sent him to America, where he joined his uncle's family in St. Louis and resumed high school. Among his most deeply held goals was a desire to return to Europe to fight against the Nazis. The U.S. Army estab- lished a special training base at Camp Ritchie in Maryland to prepare experts on Germany, many of them Jewish exiles, to be spies, interrogators and translators. Stern served as a master sergeant in the Army's military intelligence service, taking part in the Normandy invasion. Christian Bauer's 2004 film The Ritchie Boys captures their experiences. Stern won a Bronze Star for his inno- vative interrogation techniques created and applied during the war. He co-created the academic discipline Exile Studies, which focuses on the contributions of authors, poets, play- wrights and others forced to leave their country of birth. He has received the Distinguished Germanist of the Year, the Grand Order of Merit, the Goethe Medal of the Federal Republic of Germany and an honorary doctorate from Hofstra University in New York. n