Spring Break
Short film 'Love Pentagons' casts University students as soap stars
ELYSE BEASLEY
Issue date: 4/30/07 Section: News
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"You just couldn't control yourself, could you? Now you'll be paying the price for a very long time. It's over between us."
While these words may sound as if they are from a typical break-up scene in any afternoon soap opera, they are a part of the dialogue between two lovers in "Love Pentagons," a three-and-one-half minute original film starring three University students.
In November 2006, Tiffany Jackman, a senior at New York University, asked her sister Caresse Jackman, a University sophomore, to help cast actors for her short soap opera film competition sponsored by SOAPnet, a television network that airs episodes of popular soap operas.
Caresse hired her friends Courtney Rumala, James Hancock III and Jerome Spencer for the film. The fourth cast member, Tarren McCray, attends Savannah State University.
The soap opera, filmed in Atlanta over Winter Break, is about a woman who pays another woman to sleep with her fiancé in order to test his fidelity.
"Love Pentagons" made it to the semifinals of the SoapU contest and was voted on by viewers, said Caresse.
It ultimately ranked among the top five in the competition.
"Our (film) was original," Tiffany, the film's writer and director, said. "Most of the other ones were parodies, but ours was really trying to be like a soap opera with twists."
The cast recently finished filming their second short soap opera in New York.
The group's placement for this film will determine who wins the grand prize - a $20,000 budget to film a 30-minute soap opera and chance to present their original material for producers in Los Angeles.
"I'm hoping we win the competition and that we get to fly to L.A. to meet with industry execs," said Tiffany. "Even if they don't give us a show, the chance to meet them and get our name out there would be great."
Tiffany said the cast was "so happy" when they were informed of their rank in the top five and began calling everyone who had helped them to say thank you.
"Love Pentagons" can be viewed now at www.soapu.com.
While these words may sound as if they are from a typical break-up scene in any afternoon soap opera, they are a part of the dialogue between two lovers in "Love Pentagons," a three-and-one-half minute original film starring three University students.
In November 2006, Tiffany Jackman, a senior at New York University, asked her sister Caresse Jackman, a University sophomore, to help cast actors for her short soap opera film competition sponsored by SOAPnet, a television network that airs episodes of popular soap operas.
Caresse hired her friends Courtney Rumala, James Hancock III and Jerome Spencer for the film. The fourth cast member, Tarren McCray, attends Savannah State University.
The soap opera, filmed in Atlanta over Winter Break, is about a woman who pays another woman to sleep with her fiancé in order to test his fidelity.
"Love Pentagons" made it to the semifinals of the SoapU contest and was voted on by viewers, said Caresse.
It ultimately ranked among the top five in the competition.
"Our (film) was original," Tiffany, the film's writer and director, said. "Most of the other ones were parodies, but ours was really trying to be like a soap opera with twists."
The cast recently finished filming their second short soap opera in New York.
The group's placement for this film will determine who wins the grand prize - a $20,000 budget to film a 30-minute soap opera and chance to present their original material for producers in Los Angeles.
"I'm hoping we win the competition and that we get to fly to L.A. to meet with industry execs," said Tiffany. "Even if they don't give us a show, the chance to meet them and get our name out there would be great."
Tiffany said the cast was "so happy" when they were informed of their rank in the top five and began calling everyone who had helped them to say thank you.
"Love Pentagons" can be viewed now at www.soapu.com.
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