passover
a kevin lucero less film
PASSOVER a Kevin Lucero Less film
Two apparent strangers meet in a high-rise hotel room and arrive at the conclusion, that one of the two must help the other to overcome the oppression of a society breed on apathy.
From award winning artist / performer Kevin Lucero Less ( Food for Thought, Ordinary Day, Sunday Morning, Move Me ) comes the tale of Passover, based on actual events in modern crime and the Jewish story of the Exodus.
The Screenplay ( Jean Pussan's monologue - Selected from screenplay )
JEAN
It is...simple really. I have no need to be what you wish me to be. God knows I have tried. I have tried to be like you, arrogant and in disregard for personal responsibility. I have attempted to listen to your songs...attempted to watch your shows, dealing with "Reality". I have tried time and time again to let sex equal apathy...and love, equal a punch line of jokes revolving around hair styles and celebrity self guidance. I have tried to live the way you tell me to, with some notion of a snowflake and being special, well...you are not special...one look in the mirror proves it...if you had the strength to do so. (BEAT) Well, I have the strength...and now I have the strength to leave you. I know you will ask why...I know you will call me weak, selfish, confused, But I see more clearly now...than I have in years...tomorrow never knows what it doesn't know too soon...I know, I must.
( written by Kevin Lucero Less - Passover the film all rights reserved 2006 )
The Cast
Chuck Rankin ( Jean Pussan ) received his Masters of Arts degree in Expressive Therapies from the University of Louisville. Prior to that he attended the University of Indianapolis earning a BS in Art Therapy with a Theatre Performance minor. Chuck has accumulated diverse stage experience, acting in or directing numerous stage productions over the last twenty years. Favorite past projects include "Flowers for Algernon" ( winner best actor ); "Our Town" ( winner best supporting actor ); "Ten Little Indians"; "West Side Story"; "Witness for the Prosecution" ( nomination best actor ); "Air 
Waves" ( Irene Ryan American Collegiate Theatre Festival nomination best actor ); "Our Country's Good"; "Titus Andronicus"; "Dial M for Murder" ( nomination best supporting actor ); "Guantanamo"; "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" ( nomination best director ); "Black Coffee" ( nomination best actor ); "Deathtrap" ( nomination best director ) and "Endymion".
Kevin Lucero Less ( Decklan Quinn ) graduated BFA Summa Cum Laude Honors from the University of Arizona. Lucero also holds degrees from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts ( Conservatory Company Invitation ) and the Touch Therapy Institute. Lucero's fine art painting and photography have been selected consecutively for the Arizona Biennial at the Tucson Museum of Art and he is in the Permanent Collections of the Tucson Museum of Art, MOCA Tucson, American Medical Response and the Iowa Biennial Print Archive. In 2006 he had back to back exhibitions including, the "World Print Annual" Lessedra Gallery Sofia Bulgaria; "Shelter" Tucson Museum of Art and the "Biennial Southwest" Albuquerque Museum of Art. Lucero's works have been published in many International publications, such as "New American Paintings", "Tucson Home magazine", "Travel + Leisure magazine" and "Shade magazine". Lucero has been in over 70 productions in Film, Stage and Television and has won 7 awards for "Best Actor", since 1994. Lucero created Halo One Productions in 1996 producing film, theatre and fine art exhibitions. Lucero's films have been Official Selections of the: Sundance Film Festival, Cine Vegas Film Festival, Sundance Institute Brooklyn Academy of Music, Silver Lake Film Festival, Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, New York City 24 Hour Film Festival, Arizona International Film Festival (x2), Dixie Film Festival (nomination outstanding original story/screenplay), Reno (nomination best short film), Phoenix Film Festival (winner best Director, 
winner best Director of Photography), TGAFP Austin (winner best screenplay), Boston Film Festival, ION Fest Los Angeles, Eurasian Almaty Kazakhstan International Film Festival and a short film qualifier for the Academy Awards 2006. Kevin Lucero Less's photography is a driving element in the film Passover and a comparison can be made in his Hollywood Nocturnes, included in the "Biennial Southwest" at the Albuquerque Museum of Art.
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