The festival opened with a sold out house for Matt Leutwyler's THIS SPACE BETWEEN US, a comic drama about a grieving young filmmaker who returns to the Bay Area from Los Angeles and reconnects with the eccentric group of friends he had left behind. The packed house gave local filmmaker Leutwyler high marks for creating an engaging, entertaining film.
Alex Harty has hit the skids. Following his young wife's death, the extended grief and a stalled career cause him to finally blow a fuse. After attacking a movie producer (Gary Marshall) with a pen, Alex (Jeremy Sisto) decides to hit the road for home. Leaving L. A., he arrives in San Francisco with a convertible Dodge, a tape of his beloved's last telephone messages, and the need to start over.
Homecoming leads him to reunite with an unusual cast of freaks and familiarities including a stalker/photographer (Alex Kingston), a wedding singer turned performance artist (Taylor Negron), and a flashy Frisco politico (Vincent Ventresca). Other notable performances in this surprisingly fresh dramedy come from local rockers Low Hum Satellite and cameos by Verve Pipe and Cracker.
The well integrated use of local musicians and Bay Area locals often overlooked in "San Francisco" movies adds to the film's easy flow and surprising twists.
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