Drama alums Kevin Jackson ('98) and Andres Faucher's ('00) film, El Pasajero, has garnered yet another honor, winning Best International Short at the 2008 Queens International Film Festival in New York City.  Earlier this year, the film was named Best Narrative Short at the Athens International Film & Video Festival.

“El Pasajero is a brilliant meditation on class and inequality, but finally about those essential things that unify us as humans. It is an important work by a new voice in world cinema," says legendary producer Jonathan Taplin (Mean Streets, To Die For), a member of the Academy Awards' Foreign Language Film Selection Committee.

In addition to its honors at Queens and Athens, El Pasajero was awarded Best Screenplay and Best Ensemble Cast at the 2008 Breckenridge Festival of Film; received a Special Jury Award for Best Actor (Jorge Palacios) at the 2008 Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival; and was a Finalist for Best Short at the 2008 USA Film Festival.

"In my many years of judging entries, El Pasajero is one of my top 10 favorites of all time," says Jocelyn Donaghue, juror at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.

To date, El Pasajero has been selected to a total of ten film festivals across the country, including:  Cinequest (San Jose, CA), Athens Int'l (Ohio), USA (Dallas, TX), Breckenridge (Colorado), Rhode Island Int'l, Los Angeles Short Film Festival, Los Angeles Latino Int'l, CineFestival (San Antonio, TX), and Queens Int'l.

For more information, please visit the El Pasajero  website.