The Passenger

Feature film, fiction

Status: rising funds
Direction: Rodrigo Bittencourt
Screenwriter: Ismael Aragão, Janaína da Cunha, Rodrigo Bittencourt
Executive Producer: Angelisa Stein
Producer: Valkyria Filmes
Distribution: Bretz Filmes


The Passenger

SYNOPSIS
Before going to work, Rogerio finds an empty pregnancy test pack. Hurry, he says goodbye to his wife and leaves. At the end of the day, he picks up a crowded Kombi to return home and a stray bullet hits his chest fatally. After the tragedy, the Kombi is put up for sale, but nobody wants to buy it until Marcos, who becomes the new owner and puts it back on the streets. 
Supernatural things happen: Marcos sees a figure, a voice alerts him about a car crash on the Rio-Niterói Bridge, he miraculously escapes from an accident and feels a strange presence all the way back home, until he is surprised by the spirit of Rogerio, who communicates with him. Rogério's spirit has no memories of his life, how he died and doesn’t even know his name until the day he sees his wife and daughter in the market. Marcos promotes a heartfelt reunion between them, which will unite all of them forever.

DIRECTOR: RODRIGO BITTENCOURT
Rodrigo Bittencourt is a multi-talented artist: movie and TV director, screenwriter, writer, musician
and composer.
He wrote and directed the following short films:
- “Por acaso Gullar” (2006), selected for Rio Int’l Film Festival and São Paulo
Film Festival;
- “Procurando Jorge Mautner” (2007), selected for São Paulo Film Festival.
This short film documentary later became a TV show, also written and
directed by Bittencourt;
- “Algum dia baby blues” (2009), Best Actor award in Cabo Frio Film Festival;
- “Who ́s gonna f**k my wife” (2010), selected for London Film Festival,
Brazilian Film Festival of Miami and São Paulo Film Festival.
- “Hiato” (2010).
In 2012, he wrote and directed his first feature film, “Totalmente inocentes”. The film was the fifth
highest grossing Brazilian film in the year, selling more than half million tickets around the country.
A remarkable box office for a new director.
In 2016, he directed “Real – O plano por trás da história”, a political thriller about the group of
Economists which designed and implemented “Plano Real”, the main Brazilian economic plan back
in 1993.
In October 2017, he started to shoot his third feauture film called “Missão Cupido”.