Producer Swizz Beatz has been making a variety of moves in several arenas outside
of music. The latest venture for the musician has the Bronx native joining the
cast of a new unscripted television series, Dream School.
The show, which will air as part of the Sundance Channel "s original
fall lineup, will focus on a group of 15 troubled students as a team of personalities,
including Swizz, will offer them life skills and career advice, instruction
and more.
Actor David Arquette, financial adviser and personality Suze Orman,
activist Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson Sr., journalist Soledad O "Brien, director
Oliver Stone and others will assist the students by teaching them about the
finer points of their respective fields.
From the press release:
From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone to
astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison, these instructors will have one mission –
to excite young minds and reignite their students " desire to learn. An ambitious
project where the best and the brightest in our culture teach kids who have
been falling through the cracks, “Dream School” is designed to
motivate troubled teenagers to turn their lives around. Pregnant, neglected,
bullies or bullied; the kids all have one thing in common — they are
dropouts. Now Sundance Channel is giving them a once in a lifetime chance
to start over, but overcoming past failures and future obstacles will prove
to be no easy task for both the students and their instructors.
All of the students, aged between 17-18, are either high school
dropouts or have been expelled by their school system. Dream School "s aim is
to get the students back to basics and onto the path of success. Naturally,
Swizz Beatz will be schooling the teens on the music business.
Dream School makes its debut October 7 on the Sundance Channel
at 10 p.m. ET/PT
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