The London Australian Film Festival proudly presented the London premiere of REACHING DISTANCE, the feature debut of writer/director David Fairhurst and our opening gala screening.

Struggling in the aftermath a car accident that killed his twin sister, Logan (Wade Briggs) – a cynic with a photographic memory – wakes to find himself on the same night bus as Martin (Matt Day), the banker he holds responsible for his sister’s death. 

His vengeance is repeatedly thwarted by increasingly strange interactions with the other passengers, including an inquisitive nurse, her jealous boyfriend, two bickering teenagers and an unhinged homeless man. As things take a turn for the bizarre, the line between past and present fractures.

Taut and whip-smart, Groundhog Day has nothing on this mind-bending thriller, which pitches an unstable man against his own faulty memory and a graffiti-strewn bus full of (not quite) strangers. Low budget but high concept, this is Australian genre filmmaking at its finest.