Sergeant Cheerleader

Sergeant Cheerleader is a romantic comedy about an Army ROTC cadet who joins his university’s cheerleading squad.

Cast
* Chris Manitius as Will Poole
* Francesca Chilcote as Mary
* Russel Smith as Lance
* Mohammad Rahman as Malcolm
* Kacey Canfield as Sabrina
* Abby Cawiezell as Alicia

Plot
Cadet Will Poole is the squad leader of the Army Reserve Officer Training Corp (ROTC) at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is busy preparing his squad for the upcoming ROTC competition, the Ranger Challenge, when he meets Mary, the Captain of the school’s cheerleading squad. Mary and the girls convince Will to join the cheerleading squad, and to his surprise he has a great time. However, his fellow cadets are not happy about being led by a male cheerleader, and are afraid that he is now more loyal to the cheerleaders than to them. This tension comes to a head when the Ranger Challenge coincides with the Cheerleading competition. Is Will going to stick with his Army squad, or his cheerleading squad?

Historical Significance
This film is a landmark production in the history of independent filmmaking. For the past century, filmmaking has been prohibitively expensive, and only those with access to large sums of money could make films. Sergeant Cheerleader has taken advantage of recent technological developments in digital editing software which has placed advanced film-making technology into the hands of the average citizen. The College of William and Mary is leading the field in the use of this new technology and is making the film Sergeant Cheerleader as a demonstration of the new methods to make films.

The film is also unique in that it has recruited the President of the College of William and Mary, W. Taylor Reveley, III as an actor. The film also recruited the Mayor of Williamsburg, Jeanne Zeidler

This is the first mainstream film which portrays Army ROTC in the core of its plot.

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