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News
 04/21/06 - The Scot & The Aussie Debuts
01/01/06 - Meeting NAACP Chairman
01/01/06 - Featured in VOICES newsletter
10/17/05 - Wins Awards at "Oklahoma's Sundance"
04/25/05 - Named Indie Star
Jerome Meets NAACP Chairman
01/16/06 Lawton, OK, -- In celebration of Martin Luther King Day, Jerome Bethea attended Cameron University' event, where Julian Bond was a featured guest speaker. On February 26, Cuba Gooding Jr, whom Jerome acted with in the film Radio hosted the NAACP Image awards and also met Mr. Bond. It's a small world!!!
Jerome Wins Awards at "Oklahoma's Sundance"
 10/17/05 Tulsa, OK, -- Jerome Bethea took home several awards at the Oct 14-16 Script-2-Screen Film Festival in Tulsa. The festival, deemed “Oklahoma’s Sundance,” is the largest film festival in Oklahoma, showing 70 films from 24 states and three countries.
Bethea walked the festival’s red carpet Friday night for the world premiere of Soulmates, a two-hour romantic comedy in which he co-starred as egotistical dating service intern Donald Mason. The romantic comedy directed by Bristow residents Carl & Vivian Adams received non-stop laughs from the standing-room-only audience in Tulsa Community College’s Phillips Auditorium, and went on to earn top festival awards of “Best Soundtrack,” “Best Romance,” and the coveted Audience Choice for “Best Picture” at the awards ceremony Sunday night.
“A lot of the people in the audience asked me after the premiere, ‘Who is that guy?’” says Soulmates director Carl Adams. “Jerome has a great look, a bold screen presence, and he’s a heck of a good actor. We’ve got a lot of scripts in the works, and we’re going to write him the lead role in the next one.”
“Phenomenal,” co-director Vivian Adams adds. “He has perfect timing, all the right facial expressions and is very convincing. We’re not kidding when we say he’s the next Denzel Washington, and we just want to get in on his success while we can.”
In addition, Bethea’s performance in a live script reading of Pennsylvania native Phyliss Shanken’s screenplay Love on the Other Side won “Best Live Screenplay Reading.” Bethea read the part of Victor with Kaycee Clark of Oklahoma City reading as Olivia.
“When I saw the reading, Jerome’s versatility really came through,” says Vivian Adams. “Not only can he do comedy extremely well as in Soulmates, but he can go to serious drama like Love on the Other Side and be compelling. He’s extremely good.”
“Jerome Bethea’s performance in my screenplay went well beyond my expectations as a writer and director,” says Love on the Other Side writer Phyliss Shanken. “His ability to take direction and his attention to the details in his interaction with other actors was uncanny. He not only brought my words to life, but through his maturity as an experienced and accomplished actor, he enhanced the character he played. Due to his skill and dedication, he truly shares this honorable award with me.”
The Script-2-Screen Festival is organized and directed by Muskogee’s Oscar and Shiron Ray of Darkwood Productions, who also direct the Barebones International Film Festival in Muskogee every April, where Bethea won the 2005 Indie Star Contender competition’s Actor Award.
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Jerome shakes hands with NAACP Chairman Julian Bond
Jerome and Summer Bethea walk the red carpet at the Script-2-Screen Awards Ceremony
Jerome and Summer Bethea at the Soulmates Premiere
Jerome practices with actress Kaycee Clark and writer Phyliss Shanken for Love on the Other Side screenplay reading
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Jerome Named Indie Star Actor
04/24/05, Muskogee, OK -- On April 24, 2005, Jerome Bethea was awarded the "Indie Star Contender Actor Award"
at the Barebones International Film Festival in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He won the award after competing with fellow actors
in several rounds of auditions, for which the actors were given just a few minutes to prepare before the competition.
In the first round, Jerome read the part of a U.S. president meeting for the first time his illegitimate daughter from
a long-lost love. Erika O'Bar read the part of the daughter, and went on the win the Female Indie Star award.
In the second round of auditions, the competitors came back alone with the judges and read parts from Darkwood Films'
upcoming vampire movie Sacred Bloods. Jerome read for the part of Maxil, one of few vampires to see the
"cup of sacred bloods." He impressed the judges, including Stacy Taylor, JP Nickel, and Ford Austin.
The award was presented at an Awards Gala at the end of the weekend festival in Muskogee's Roxy Theatre. The Barebones
Festival, led by directors Oscar Dean and Shironbutterfly Ray, is held each April in Muskogee and October in Tulsa.
Click here for info about the Barebones Film Festival!
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Receiving the Award
Auditioning with Erika
The award
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