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Passengers Reverie
86 minutes ■ 2009 ■ Australia ■ In Competition 83 minutes ■ 2009 ■ USA ■ In Competition
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Friday 9:10p
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Saturday 12:10p
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Sunday 9:40a Thursday 9:10p
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Saturday 9:40a
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Sunday 3:10p
Monday 3:10p Monday 6:10p
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Plays with: Sister Wife (p37)
Director: Geoff Stewart ■ Producers: Alles Mist, Zach Sanchez, Geoff Stewart ■ Screenwriter:
Geoff Stewart ■ Cinematographer/Editor/Music/Composer: Alles Mist ■ Principal Cast:
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Ronnie Chittim, Samantha Dols, Shawn O’Brien, Zach Sanchez, Geoff Stewart ■
Director/Screenwriter: Michael Bond ■ Producers: Michael Bond, Cameron Daddo, J.J.
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Rogers ■ Cinematographer: László Baranyai ■ Editor: Drew Thompson ■ Music/Composer:
Gerald Brunskill ■ Principal Cast: Cameron Daddo, Bruce Davison, Angie Milliken, Patty Yu ■
passengersfilm.com
Jake and Dominic were best friends in high school, but a
heartbreaking accident has left them estranged. Set in the
Tom and Melony, a married Australian couple living in L.A. set
remote wilderness of the Illinois River Valley in Oregon six
out from their home to meet friends for dinner. It's a Friday
years after a fire devastated the area, a series of events brings
night, so, naturally they hit traffic. Tom is beginning to find
the two former friends together.
success as a screenwriter. Melony is on the verge of quitting her
Their past is so tainted that years later when Dominic sees Jake
dream of an acting career in Hollywood. Things haven't gone
in front of his broken down truck on a remote logging road, he
her way and living so far from home is taking its toll.
must fight the urge not to stop. The wounds of their dark past
They call from the road—they’re going to be late—but by now
are reopened, and the former friends are pained in each other’s 47
neither wants this night to continue. Everything is coming to a
presence. When they both end up stranded in the forest, it takes
head—family, career, marriage, love. And as they close in on
a stranger, who puts them up for the night, to help them
their destination they become acutely aware that there’s no
confront their past and move on with the fragile lives they have
turning back from here. A brutally honest exploration of
constructed. [adult content, language]
modern love pushed by doubt, claustrophobia and bad traffic to
the nervous edge of separation. [adult content, language]
Geoff Stewart
Director’s Statement
Michael Bond
This film is a narrative that seeks to explore
Director’s Statement
some of the darker aspects of the human
With so much of the film set inside the
experience, set in one of the most beautiful
vehicle, the challenge of writing was to have
locations on earth. The film was completed
the audience leave the car without leaving
through the commitments of Alles Mist,
the car—to employ visually evocative
Zach Sanchez, and myself, while operating on a fiscal budget of
language to “see” Tom and Melony’s history
less than $3,000 and for the majority of photography, without a
without needing to cut to it. This freed up
crew.
the camera to scrutinize our characters and capture the subtext.
The project could not have been completed without the aid of
Through the use of blocking and framing we have them
various individuals from the local community who volunteered
entangled in each other in the first part of the film, drift apart
time and services to allow the story to come to life. Because of
during their journey and push them further away from each
this, the filmmakers are thrilled to have the world premiere take
other as things crumble. Sound and music were designed to do
place at AIFF, bringing the film back to the area in which it was
two things—enhance the emotion in the characters’ journey and
created.
recreate the city as a living organism with a beating heart, which
breathes and moves. The city is the third character on the
Filmography: Take Back the City, The Witch of Portobello
journey—always shifting and changing—echoing the
deterioration of this relationship.
Filmography: Bad Credit and Aliens, Bad Thinks, Burns Half as Long, Everyone Comes to
Bob’s, The Flame That Burns Twice as Bright, Unison
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